Altair and the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) have announced the winners of the 4th annual Altair Enlighten Award. The winner of the full vehicle category was GM for the 2016 Cadillac CT6, which is 71 kg lighter than traditional vehicles of similar size. In the module category, which focuses on the achievements from automotive suppliers, the winner is ContiTech for its unique polyamide rear cross beam for the 2016 Mercedes S-Class.

On October 20 - 21, 2016 the 6th International Symposium Human Modeling in Automotive Engineering will be held in Heidelberg, Germany. A selection of summaries of interesting prestations on important topics including active models and brain injuries, you find on the following link.

On the webpage of the symposium you will find the opportunity to register online.

For people interested in advanced head injury criteria we conduct the Seminar Model Based Head Injury Criteria for Innovative Protection Design on the day before the symposium.

From energy-efficient jet engines to personalized medical devices, companies can quickly and easily design and manufacture cutting-edge, safe and reliable products thanks to a new collaboration between ANSYS and the University of Pittsburgh. The partnership will push further education and research to solve some of the industry's toughest additive manufacturing problems.