Monash to join international collaboration with PACE

3 November 2004

Monash University will announce a joint venture with Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) this Friday, 5 November 2004.

The announcement will be made jointly by Victoria's Minister for Manufacturing and Export Mr Tim Holding and Monash University vice-chancellor Professor Richard Larkins, at the university's Caulfield campus. Other speakers will include Holden chairman and managing director Mr Denny Mooney.

Monash is the first university in Australia to be selected to join the PACE program.

The $multi-million arrangement involves the university's Engineering and Art and Design faculties. The Art and Design faculty is only the second of its kind (and the first outside the US ) to join PACE.

PACE is a corporate alliance between General Motors (represented in Australia by Holden Limited), EDS, Sun Microsystems and UGS that has been in place since 1999. It supports key academic institutions worldwide with computer-based engineering tools to prepare mechanical designers, engineers, and analysts with the skills to compete in the future.

The corporate partnership has contributed software, hardware, training and technical support to schools like Purdue, Michigan State, Northwestern and Virginia Tech, and institutions in Canada, China, Germany, Mexico and Sweden.

What: Official launch of Monash University's arrangement with PACE by Victoria's Minister for Manufacturing and Export, Tim Holding, and Monash vice-chancellor Professor Richard Larkins.

When: 10.45am, Friday, 5 November 2004.

Where: Art and Design Building, Caulfield campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East.

Who: For information, contact Ms Diane Squires on +61 3 9905 5828 or mobile 0417 603 400.

Note: On display for the first time in Melbourne will be the new Holden Torana concept car recently unveiled at the Sydney Motor Show.