Engine Research Center collaborates with GM

General Motors Corp. will fund a $5 million collaborative research laboratory at UW–Madison over five years to help develop cleaner, more efficient diesel and gasoline engines.

The Engine Research Center (ERC) will use part of the funding to conduct modeling of diesel exhaust after-treatment systems and diesel particulate emission traps. ERC researchers also will conduct experiments and simulations of advanced combustion processes for both diesel and gasoline engines leading to lower emissions and improved fuel economy.

The ERC is one of seven institutions worldwide to have received this designation from General Motors.

“We’re pleased that General Motors has chosen our Engine Research Center to become its latest collaborative research laboratory,” says College of Engineering Dean Paul Peercy. “[The center] has been conducting fundamental research on engines for more than half a century, and this partnership with General Motors will continue that tradition of cutting-edge research and technology transfer.”