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Welcome to the Automotive Division of SPE
Welcome to the Internet home of the Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers International (SPE), a not-for-profit technical society.
WHAT'S NEW...
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (CD Contents) for the 2007 SPE Automotive Composites Conference have been posted (April 2008) and are available for review and downloading. For more information, please Click HERE.
GRADUATE-LEVEL SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED for 2008 SPE Automotive Composites Conference. To download a nomination form, please Click HERE.
STILL TIME TO SUBMIT PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS for the 2008 SPE Automotive Composites Conference. For more information, please Click HERE.
LATEST AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION NEWSLETTER posted (March 2008). To download this or other division newsletters, please Click HERE.
SAVE THE DATES: SPE announces the 2008 dates for several of its popular events held in the suburbs of Detroit:
The 8th-annual Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) -- jointly organized by the Composites & Automotive Divisions of SPE -- which will take place September 16-18, 2008 in Troy, Michigan.
The 38th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Competition part nominations forms DUE September 16. First-round judging will be held late September. Finalists will advance to Blue Ribbon Judging, which will take place by mid-October. Dates and locations to be announced in early September.
The 38th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala -- the oldest and largest recognition event in the automotive and plastics industries -- which will take place early November (date not yet set) in Livonia, Michigan. Tickets will go on sale in October.
Finalists, Category Winners, and the Grand Award Winner for this year's 37th-annual SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Competition have been announced. To learn which nominations won, download photos from the event, or to order replica plaques and trophies, please Click HERE
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO...
The Automotive Division of SPE is dedicated to recognizing and communicating technical accomplishments in all phases of new automotive plastics and plastic-based composite applications and has over 1500 members worldwide.
Ours is one of 22 divisions or sections within SPE. It was chartered on September 9, 1970 to communicate with Division members as well as to industry and the public about current and developmental automotive and ground-transportation uses of polymeric materials such as rigid and elastomeric thermoplastics and thermosets, rigid and flexible foams, composites, nanocomposites, films, and more.
The Division presents technical sessions at ANTEC (SPE's ANnual TEChnical Conference) and organizes topical conferences (such as our popular Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) and our new Automotive Engineering Plastics (AutoEPCON) Conference), and works with other technical societies to increase knowledge about current and future automotive plastic applications. We fund college scholarships and sponsor and participate in additional educational outreach programs for school children through the PlastiVan Program from the National Plastics Center & Museum in Leominster, Mass. http://www.plasticsmuseum.org.
In addition to educational activities, the Division sponsors the oldest and largest awards competitions in the automotive and plastics industries to recognize the year's Most Innovative Use of Plastics in ground-transportation applications. Winning teams are recognized at our annual SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala, a glittering evening of celebration to recognize excellence in automotive plastics engineering and executive leadership.
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