AU students team with pair from India

Auburn University supply chain management student Carrie Haywood and chemical engineering student Justin Gorman, seniors in the Business-Engineering-Technology (B-E-T) minor, participated in this year’s joint U.S.-India student project team.

Along with mechanical engineering students Prateek Jain and Mukul Mittal of the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, Haywood and Gorman worked on an “infotainment system” for use in automobiles produced for U.S. and Indian markets. Haywood, Gorman and Pradeep Lall, project supervisor and professor of mechanical engineering, visited the Indian Institute of Technology in April to meet with their Indian team members to complete the project.

The students worked together for a week and toured several auto assembly and auto parts manufacturing companies around New Delhi. They met top- and middle-management employees to discuss the auto industry in India and to gather information about the nature of automotive infotainment systems needed for the country’s automobile market.

For more information on the program, visit http://www.eng.auburn.edu/center/twc/BET/.