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.
Excerpt:
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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