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Timken, Clemson announce CU-ICAR Endowed
Chair
The Timken Company and Clemson University recently announced that
John C. Ziegert will hold The Timken Chair in Automotive Design
and Development at the Carroll A. Campbell Graduate Engineering
Center at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive
Research (CU-ICAR).
 Ziegert
will lead research initiatives in analysis and design of precision
machining for automotive applications, and coordinate collaborative
research and development projects between the university’s
R&D resources and Timken’s on-site engineering group.
Timken will contribute $3 million to an endowment to support the
graduate program at CU-ICAR, a joint facility with co-founders and
endowment contributors BMW, the German-based automaker, and Michelin,
the French-based tire company.
“John brings a valuable mix of industry experience and academic
leadership to the endowment,” said Jacqui Dedo, president
of Timken automotive. “We look forward to working with him
to develop friction management and power transmission solutions
that will transform not only the automotive industry, but other
industrial markets as well.”
As a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and
past-president of the American Society for Precision Engineering,
Ziegert has received many national awards, including the National
Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding
young faculty in the fields of science and engineering. He has authored
or co-authored more than 80 journal and conference papers, holds
three patents, with three more currently pending, and has completed
more than $7 million in externally sponsored research grants and
contracts at the University of Florida.
About CU-ICAR
At the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research,
public and private partners are working with the university to develop
the technologies, processes and workforce of the future. Anchoring
the research campus is the Campbell Graduate Engineering Center,
which will focus on systems integration –– the increasing
complex interaction of electrical, digital and mechanical technologies
in automobiles and many other manufacturing platforms.
The Timken Chair in Automotive Design and Development is one of
four endowed chairs that will form the academic core of CU-ICAR.
Clemson will begin its new Ph.D. degree program in automotive engineering
with an emphasis on systems integration this fall and an M.S. degree
program in 2007.
Since the groundbreaking, CU-ICAR has generated more than $215 million
in investments and pledges from the state of South Carolina, the
Clemson University Real Estate Foundation, and major industry partners
including BMW, Michelin, SAE International, Sun Microsystems and
Timken. By summer 2007, the first phase of development ––
Technology Neighborhood I –– will be complete, accounting
for more than 500 new jobs.
About The Timken Company
The Timken Company, keeps the
world turning by making customers’ products run smoother,
faster and more efficiently. Timken’s highly engineered bearings,
alloy steels and related products and services turn up everywhere.
With operations in 27 countries, sales of $5.2 billion in 2005 and
27,000 employees, Timken is Where You Turn™ for better performance.
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