An introduction to membership - FISITA · public policy makers and NGOs to discuss critical issues...

An introduction to membership

210,000 engineers in 37 countries

Membership includes engineering societies and corporate organisations

Development of safe, sustainable and affordable

mobility solutions

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FISITA – An introduction to membership

FISITA is the international membership organisation that supports the automotive and mobility systems sector in its quest to advance technological development. Having delivered against this mission for every generation of engineers since 1948, we are uniquely placed to promote excellence in mobility engineering and the development of safe, sustainable and affordable mobility solutions.

Since creation, FISITA has seen significant growth in influence and relevance. Today our network of Member Societies and Corporate Members extend a reach to over 210,000 engineers in 37 countries, placing us at the heart of the industry and enabling members to connect with each other, network, share technological advancements and collaborate in a pre-competitive environment.

FISITA facilitates dialogue between engineers and industry, governments, academia, and environmental and standards organisations, across all areas of automotive and mobility systems technology. Achieved through organising and delivering internationally-acclaimed technical events, including the World Automotive Congress, the World Automotive Summit, the newly-created FISITA PLUS conference and EuroBrake, the world’s largest braking technology conference; as well as endorsing the significant events run by our Member Societies.

The FISITA Roadmap to 2020 strategic engagement plans see our organisation’s continued investment in the next generation of engineers through the ‘Your Future in Automotive’ initiative, the long-term ‘Engineer 2030’ project and ‘International Work Experience Programme’, while our recently formed Industry Committee is pioneering our strategic tracking of the evolving mobility sector through the FISITA Eco-System mapping project – ensuring that our organisation continues to deliver leadership and a relevant community to this and future generations of engineers.

Engineers create solutions, FISITA continues to support them to do so.

Promoting excellence in mobility engineering

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Daniel E. Nicholson, FISITA President (2016-2018)

Chris Mason, FISITA Chief Executive Officer

Our Member Societies and corporate members benefit from FISITA membership through access to a range of international technical events, knowledge sharing, Committee activities and technical networking opportunities. As well as engaging with the world's technical leaders, FISITA also provides a platform to inspire the next generation to choose a career within the automotive mobility industry:

Why FISITA?

n FISITA promotes international co-operation and information exchange with and between Member Societies, working with them to develop and deliver added value products and services for their individual members. Our annual Regional Report highlights these activities, the key achievements and successes of Member Societies, we also offer best practice advice via member case studies and the member Local Knowledge and Best Practice Forum.

n FISITA supports leadership and expertise in global automotive mobility engineering and interfaces with other mobility-related activities, connecting senior research and development executives. Our highly regarded World Automotive Summit is a technical leadership event that brings together technical executives, scientists, academics, public policy makers and NGOs to discuss critical issues for the automotive mobility industry and wider society.

n FISITA supports the continuing professional development of automotive engineers. This includes hosting the biennial World Automotive Congress (Chennai, India is the venue for October 2018) and EuroBrake, the world’s largest braking technology conference and exhibition (Dresden, Germany is the venue for May 2017). We also support the publication of the authoritative Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering and offer a range of insightful technical papers from FISITA events.

n FISITA provides recognition to events held by our members, which includes technical conferences and meetings relating to automotive and mobility systems technology. FISITA Endorsement is awarded in recognition of each events significant contribution to the development of automotive knowledge and technology.

n The FISITA Automotive Diary is a global calendar of member events, which in 2016, saw our members’ conferences and activities attract more than 210,000 engineers.

n FISITA supports the education, training and international experience of students and young engineers. This includes our dedicated Student Congress, alongside the main FISITA World Automotive Congress, Work Experience Programme, Travel Bursaries of up to EUR 2,000 (to support the costs of taking part in organised work placements) and delivering popular and beneficial student activities at EuroBrake.

n FISITA has recently established an Academic Advisory Board to support the strategic alignment between membership and academia and modernised the innovative ‘Your Future In Automotive’ website, which provides practical career guidance and services to young people, such as the comprehensive International University Guide.

n Our member society network of over 210,000 engineers have exclusive access to the FISITA Friend for Life status. Those who register and build a professional profile can engage within this unique international community - a fantastic network to connect, collaborate and learn from others in the industry, be it with fellow students or engineers and leaders already established within the international automotive mobility sector.

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“The automotive industry is at a tipping point as automotive manufacturers adapt to new consumer demands that require vehicles that fit their digital lives. Our work with FISITA and its global network will help to address how we can engineer a seamless and secure driving experience for customers with digital preferences.”

Dirk Wollschlaeger, General Manager, Global Automotive IndustryIBM

“This internship helped me to foster my vivid technical skills together with my knowledge from the university. Through my time at BMW, I acquired a profound knowledge of various new software, improved my precise planning as well as the detailed implementation of highly complicated processes and of course my organizational excellence. I’d like to thank FISITA for your dedication and especially for your support with the Travel Bursary program that you offer. I really appreciate it."

Christoph Kloibhofer, 2016 Travel Bursary recipient

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FISITA supported over 200,000 engineers through

member events in 2016

€250,000 in Travel Bursaries provided

238 universities in over 46 countries listed in

International University Guide

500 exhibitors at our international events

750,000 website visits in 2016

n As part of our commitment to members, we are introducing a number of new activities - the Corporate Members can look forward to significant new developments in 2017, including the Industry Committee, which is delivering an agenda of work and a collaborative platform for Corporate Members and sees the creation of a new Executive Board position of VP Industry. Our long-term Engineer 2030 initiative involves collaboration between FISITA’s Industry Committee and Academic Advisory Board to support creation of the workplace ready engineers of the future.

n FISITA’s highly-valued, free-to-access International Work Experience Programme connects our Member Societies and Corporate Members. The Programme assists students and aspiring engineers from our Member Societies to enter the profession work-ready via placements from our Corporate Members – following soft-launch in Q4 2016 we have already successfully delivered a number of placements on behalf of members, including Applus IDIADA, Bosch, Maserati and Test World.

n FISITA offers first-class meeting conference and office facilities to all members (inclusive of membership fee) at our modern headquarters located in close proximity to London Stansted Airport in the UK. This central location provides exceptional local, national and international transport connections and is easily accessible from London, Cambridge, Birmingham, as well as Europe and the rest of the world.

Member SocietiesOur network of 38 Member Societies represents a growing community of over 210,000 automotive engineers, spread across five continents. These engineering societies represent the interests of their members and help to disseminate and share automotive technology, both locally within their country of operation and to an international audience.

Spanning the world’s major economies, the Member Societies encompass important automotive R&D and manufacturing centres. FISITA’s goal is to provide a forum for dialogue amongst our members, as well as industry, government, academia, environmental and standards organisations.

“FISITA provides a forum for the world’s automotive engineering societies to work collectively on the most vexing issues facing the industry.”

Dr. David Schutt, Chief Executive Officer, SAE International

Our members

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Corporate MembersLeaders from many of the most influential companies within the global automotive mobility industry are FISITA Corporate Members. They work with FISITA in support of our mission to develop safe, sustainable and affordable mobility solutions and promote the global professional development of engineers.

Corporate Members are exclusively invited to attend and contribute towards our global events and activities, including the by-invitation technical leaders event, the World Automotive Summit. In addition, the Industry Committee is a significant benefit and will drive collaboration among our Corporate Members.

“FISITA is a unique worldwide forum to exchange viewpoints on technology and market trends in automotive engineering. For Bosch, the inputs from FISITA are always a great and fruitful challenge to our information base.”

Dr. Markus Heyn, Member of the Board of Management of the Robert Bosch Group

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As technology advances, the automotive sector is moving away from the traditional, combustion propelled motor vehicle, and fast becoming the mobility sector of the future. This change will require different skills within the automotive engineering community and in support of this transition FISITA is committed to engaging with our partners and stakeholders.

As part of our Roadmap to 2020, FISITA is introducing specific initiatives to drive local and international relevance for FISITA Member Societies and promoting career opportunities among our Corporate Members. This focuses on an international awareness and recruitment drive of students into the local engineering societies within FISITA membership through the work experience opportunities created via FISITA corporate members.

As we adapt to the challenges of this exciting phase within the automotive sector, we understand that access to the right engineering talent in the future is critical for every member.

We are excited to be delivering these collaborative plans to support mobility engineers to 2020 and our vision remains central to these activities:

Promoting excellence in mobility engineering

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FISITA RoadMap to 2020

New for 2017FISITA has a long-standing reputation as the unique, international membership organisation for the automotive engineering community. Our role is to support our community via collaborative activities to develop safe, sustainable and affordable mobility for the world’s population.

Now, more than ever, the traditional industry that manufactured automobiles for 100 years is collaborating with the ‘new skill’ technologists required to develop and deliver the mobility systems of tomorrow.

In recognition of this evolution, FISITA is introducing two new additional levels of membership in 2017, allowing us to invite more organisations to become involved in this fast evolving mobility sector.

A�liate Member Strategic Partner

An Affiliate Member is a prominent automotive mobility engineering society in its nation, whose affiliation supports the objectives of FISITA.

FISITA Strategic Partners are stakeholder organisations engaged in promoting excellence and diversity in the advancement of automotive, mobility systems engineering and associated technologies.

Further information about these exciting new levels of membership are available online at: www.fisita.com/join

“FISITA serves primarily as a bridge that connects the Chinese automotive industry at one end and the fast-changing global automotive industry at the other end. It is a great family for all automotive engineers to think and to communicate, to improve and to innovate. I cherish my days at FISITA, and

“Personal Mobility of the future is one of the biggest challenges for our society. Automobiles will continue to play a big role, but need to be integrated in a complex mobility environment. Connecting stakeholders and communication on a global scale is one of the success factors. This is where FISITA comes into play, as the unique global platform to foster the communication between engineering societies, automotive

industry and academia. Events like the FISITA World Automotive Summit are very good examples of these interactions, with serious interest in a better future. In the automotive sector, I personally have not seen this anywhere else on such a big scale.”

Dr.-Ing. Karl Siebertz, Head of External Alliances, Europe, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering

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“FISITA is in the uniqueposition to guide and provide order to the mobility systems engineering community in this age of unprecedented, inevitable and continual disruption.”

Daniel E. Nicholson, FISITA President (2016-2018)

hope to see more talented friends, especially young professionals, come and join us. Together we are motivating the future of a wonderful automotive world.”

Amelie Gong, Deputy Secretary General of SAE-China

FISITA is pleased to offer exclusive membership to engineering societies and corporate organisations active within the automotive mobility industry.

If you would like to speak with us about becoming a member, please contact:

Ms Kelly Williams, Director of Member Services

Phone: +44 (0) 1279 883 470Web: www.fisita.comEmail: [email protected]

Join FISITA

By joining FISITA, an association/organisation will be supporting our mission to promote knowledge sharing among stakeholders in a way that positively contributes to the development of safe, sustainable and affordable mobility solutions and helps guide the future direction of the global automotive mobility engineering profession.

Individual engineers can connect, engage and contribute to the work of FISITA by joining one our Member Societies, which are listed here:www.fisita.com/about/members

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"FISITA is a global platform for the automotive engineering community which provides us with opportunities to share knowledge and experiences with other societies in the world. I have become actively involved in FISITA’s activities, thereby creating a strong relationship with other members - the benefits I received have been all invaluable. I sincerely hope that you will find many benefits upon becoming a member of FISITA."

Takao Kubozuka, Executive Director, JSAE

"FISITA education activities strengthen the opportunity for students and young engineers to be involved in the global discussion, to share the up-to-date knowledge and to contribute with fresh ideas for research and development to the field of global mobility."

Luděk Hynčík, Director of New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

“Collaboration is vital in today’s world of automotive engineering as no one group or organisation can deliver the required low carbon, efficient, affordable and safe transport solutions alone. Shell values its association with FISITA as we share a common purpose to continually push the boundaries of technology to help meet societal demand and customer expectations.”

Steve Bryce, Vice President, Fuels Technology, Shell Projects & Technology

“FISITA is a great umbrella society that brings global automotive engineers together to address challenging issues of our industry. With the technology transformation taking place worldwide, the role of FISITA is becoming increasingly important. I sincerely invite each of you to join this global platform by offering your part of the contributions to make our industry serve the future world better.”

Prof. and Dr. Fuquan (Frank) Zhao, FISITA President-Elect (2018-2020)

"FISITA is an important organisation for us where we can discuss urgent issues or future directions for the automotive industry with policy makers, academia and industry. The FISITA World Automotive Summit is a valuable opportunity to participate and gain inspiration towards the future."

Hiroaki Okuchi, Chief Officer,Toyota Frontier Research Center

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