SAE to focus on alt fuels, GM to recruit 400 technical positions

At this year's Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress at Cobo Hall, expect lots of focus on alternative fuels and fuel economy. GM plans to recruit at the gathering -- it wants to fill 400 technical positions.

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One panel discussion this week is titled "The Gasoline Engine Is Dead. Or Is It?" Another panel will highlight how government policies on vehicles and fuels will affect consumer choice.

[SAE's 2007 president, Richard] Schaum said automotive engineers have proven that they can rise to the challenge.

"The same engineers that lowered emissions for photochemical smog by 99 percent and lowered traffic fatalities by 75 percent over the last 30 years, have more than doubled fuel efficiency," Schaum said. "Engineers are amazing animals. Give them a problem and define what you'd like to have done, and they deliver."

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