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Detroit region. One such event is the SPE Automotive Division's
annual day-long golf outing at beautiful Fieldstone Golf Club
(Auburn Hills, MI, US). Another is a free tour of the new interna-
tional headquarters of Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) in
Auburn Hills, MI, US. SPE will provide transportation to and from
the conference center for those who sign up ahead of time for the
tour. Both the golf outing and the tour take place the day before
the conference (on Tuesday, Sept. 8), and participants are invited
to attend a reception
that evening at the
conference facility's
Fireside Room.
Te ACCE also
presents Best Paper
and student scholar-
ship awards at the
event, and conducts
a student poster
competition and a Best Part competition (both judged at the
event site). Last year's Best Part – Body Exterior trophy went to
Mitsubishi Rayon Carbon Fiber & Composites (Tokyo, Japan),
which nominated the CFRP (carbon fber-reinforced plastic)
decklid made by its prepreg compression molding process, which
was featured on the Nissan GT-R supercar by Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Contributing writer Peggy Malnati covers the automotive and
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(see "Learn More"). Te ACCE's People's Choice award (chosen
by conference attendees) went to Momentive Specialty Chemicals
Inc. (now Hexion Inc., Columbus, OH, US) for its nomination of
lightweight carbon fber door structure with Class A appearance
on the Porsche 911 GT Cup supercar, produced by Porsche AG
(Stuttgart, Germany).
More conference details can be found at speautomotive.com/
comp.htm.
A free SPE Events app can be downloaded from Android or
iPhone/iPad app stores to view schedules, author bios and mini-
abstracts of presentations, keynotes, panels and other event
details. A link to an online version of the app is available at speau-
tomotive.com/comp.htm.
SPE ACCE proceedings and program guides from the previous
14 events are accessible free of charge in the ACCE Archives at
speautomotive.com/aca.
SPE ACCE 2015