Audi signs strategic agreement with TUD for new automotive technologies

German automaker Audi has signed a strategic agreement
with Technical University of Dresden (TUD) to work on new
technologies for the automotive industry.
As part of the agreement, both partners will conduct a joint
research in areas including lightweight construction and
manufacturing technology under the Ingolstadt Institute of
the Technical University of Dresden (INITUD).
Under this new deal, four doctoral students of TU Dresden
are working on Audi projects including an emissions
concept to reduce energy consumption and the assessment
of tire properties.
For the lightweight concept, Audi will focus on intelligent
multi-material mix and will benefit from the expertise in this
field of TU Dresden, facilitating research into new areas.
Audi technical development board of management member
Ulrich Hackenberg said that the goal of the cooperation is to
achieve a technology transfer between science and
industry.
"We want to transfer research at the highest level into
concrete projects. This will allow us to secure our
'Vorsprung durch Technik' over the long term," Hackenberg
added.
TU Dresden principal Hans Müller-Steinhagen said that they
want to create a competence center in which science and
practice are closely meshed.
"One special aspect is the interdisciplinary approach,
because various faculties are involved in the project,"
Müller-Steinhagen added.
"In addition to physicists, electrical engineers and
mechanical engineers, psychologists and transport
scientists will work together on topics relating to
automobile manufacturing."