Brose sponsors CAD training at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences

Coburg (05/2002). The students of the Coburg University of Applied Sciences will now be able to train with CATIA - a design program widely used in the automotive industry. This was made possible by the support of the Brose Group. The company undertook to procure 20 licenses and hardware worth a total of 40,000 euro. “Modern design today is executed three-dimensionally on a CAD computer. The universities, however, are often unable to bear these costs themselves. We are very grateful to the company of Brose for making it possible for us to add this important subject to our curriculum,” said Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Mohr, head of the CAE laboratory at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences.

He continued that with this new program, the Coburg university now possessed excellent CAD equipment and was therefore in a position to offer subjects often not available at many larger universities.

Birgit Grziwa, HR director at Brose, knows from experience how important CATIA skills are in the automotive supplier sector. “In our line of business, CATIA is an important standard. It will be increasingly necessary in the future for engineers and designers, who want to join Brose, to have had prior experience working with this program.” Graduates currently have to attend CATIA training courses when they join Brose. Birgit Grziwa explained why the company had made this particular commitment to the local university: “With this action we wish to give the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, where we recruit many of our young staff, the opportunity to prepare their students at an early stage for Brose.”

CATIA training is on the curriculum for fourth semester students. In the following semester, the students are then able to put their newly acquired knowledge into immediate practice during their Brose internship.