PACE 2010

2010 PACE Global Annual Forumyour people live and work, a Siemens certification will signify their world-classtechnical training.Office Hours With PACEOffice Hours With PACE – By Appointment, sign up at Information Table.Presenters: Vass Theodoracatos, Manager Global PACE Partnerships, GMLaura McCausland, Project Manager PACE Academic ProgramsLocation: VIP Room near Main Conference Room16:25 – 16:30 Break between presentations – Time allowed for moving to next session16:30 – 16:55 Institution and Industry Presentations – Breakout SessionsEngineering Track:“FEM-Based Optimum Design of Vehicle’s Door Hinge to Maintain theDesire Auto-Body Gap Tolerances”Presenter: Ahmad Barari, Lecturer, University of Ontario Institute ofTechnology, CanadaLocation: Conference Room BThe demographic needs of emerging market vehicles can greatly benefit from theuse of lightweight materials without their presumed shortfalls in mechanicalproperties. Employing SMCs with the introduced rib patterns offers up to 25-30%weight reduction in the car’s door which as a result, there is overwhelming evidencethat SMC composites provide an appealing alternative to that of steels in an everincreasing fuel conscious market. This presentation provides an analysis into theuse of reinforcing geometries for a sheet moulding compound (SMC) compressionmoulded auto-body door for the purpose of reducing weight, and thus optimizing fuelefficiency. A particular pattern of ribs is found that enhances the strength of thestructure to be potential capable to be replaced with the conventional sheet steel.Also, the results determines that infinitely increasing the number of ribs does notcorrelate to increased strength, but that there is a threshold in the effect of number ofdesigned ribs and the experienced strength and rigidity.Curriculum Track:“Industrial Design for Engineers - a joint course between HongikUniversity and RWTH Aachen University”Presenter: Sung-Gul Hwang, Assistant Professor, Hongik University,Creative Director, Motorola KoreaAlex Brezing, Senior Lecturer, RWTH Aachen University,GermanyH. J. Jee, Professor, Hongik University, KoreaLocation: Conference Room 4The presentation will cover the first run of a joint collaborative course “IndustrialDesign for Engineers” at Hongik and RWTH Aachen Universities that has taken placeduring the 2009/2010 fall/winter semester. Within the framework of that course, agroup 20 Korean students visited the Aachen campus in December 2009 to worktogether with their German counterparts. The 10 mixed teams had to work out aconcept for a “home workout”-related product. The assignment was given by a localdesign company that would also act as part of the jury during the final presentation.The outcome of that project will be presented, and the different teaching conceptsFacing Global Challenges – Solutions for the Future 25