Detroit News, CBS Detroit cover URC event focusing on universities' contributions to the auto industry

Nearly 200 people learned more about the high-tech future of the auto industry at a WWJ Newsradio 950 business breakfast Thursday morning at Michigan State University's Management Education Center, produced in cooperation with the Michigan University Research Corridor. During the auto panel, Jerry Ku of the College of Engineering at Wayne State University spoke of the school's new electric drive engineering program and its participation in the EcoCar 2 high-mileage federal auto competition for colleges. Patrick Anderson, president of Lansing's Anderson Economic Group, also presented the results of a study showing how the three URC schools - MSU, UM and Wayne State - help drive the high-tech auto industry through their $1.9 billion a year in research. They also produce 18,000 high-tech degree graduates a year.

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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120614/AUTO01/206140441/1148/rss25