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Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004
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Science & Technology India Science Lab plans expansion Our Bureau
Bangalore , Dec. 14 THE India Science Laboratory (ISL), which carries out critical research to complement the automotive giant General Motors' (GM) research programmes in the US, will be scaling up its strength from the current 40 to 100 by the end of next year. The expansion stems from GM's assessment of the country's rich talent pool that could serve not only the world's larger automobile producer's interest to come out with cost effective technologies, but also to strengthen India's capability in automobile engineering. The India Science Laboratory was set up two years ago by GM in Bangalore with a mandate to conduct research in various areas like vehicle design tools, enterprise modelling and virtual manufacturing, embedded control systems, infrastructure and automotive materials and chemical systems. ISL is a division in the GM Technical Centre, which also has its engineering division. The Technical Centre was set up with an initial investment of $21 million and together, ISL and the engineering centre have 260 scientists and technicians engaged in R&D. ISL has been working closely with several leading Indian R&D organisations and has signed Master Agreements with IITs, CSIR Labs for collaborative research in various fields of structural science and material science. It is likely to associate with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Sharing information about the GM's research and development programmes with media persons here on Tuesday, Mr Alan I. Taub, Executive Director (R&D), General Motors Corporation, US said ISL has made significant strides in its short span and made important inventions which were likely to be taken up for filing patents. He, however, declined to specify the area in which the inventions have been made.
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