Automotive and Steel Experts to Discuss Safety, Lightweighting, Cost Reduction and the Environment

  WHO:
  Steel Market Development Institute - a business unit of AISI

  WHAT:

Ninth Annual Great Designs in Steel Seminar - the premier forum featuring the latest trends in automotive steel technologies.

This year's program features more than 30 technical presentations from automotive and steel industry experts on advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), mass-efficient applications of new steels and related manufacturing technologies. Additional topics include an overview of the EPA's light-duty greenhouse gas emissions rule and the role of vehicle mass reduction, and a roundtable discussion of vehicle life cycle assessment.

Highlighting this event is the design presentation of the FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Steel Technology Assessment and Design Optimization report. The FSV program delivers auto body concepts that address radically different structures for alternative powertrains, such as advanced hybrid, electric and fuel cell systems. The goal is to demonstrate safe, lightweight steel structures for future vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the entire life cycle of the vehicle.

  WHEN:
  Wednesday, May 5 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
  7:00 a.m. - Exhibit hall opens
  8:00 a.m. - Keynote address
  8:15 a.m. - FutureSteelVehicle design presentation
  9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - Technical presentations
  11:45 a.m. - Lunch

  WHERE:
  Laurel Manor Conference Center
  39000 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150

VISUALS / PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES:

Numerous technologies and vehicles structures will be on display, including:

  - BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo
  - 2010 Ford Fiesta
  - 2010 Ford F-150
  - Steel wheels, bumpers and fuel tanks

  For detailed site information, please visit http://www.autosteel.org/gdis.