The Kelley Manufacturing Center for Excellence coordinates its activities with a number of leading schools and degree programs including the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology’s Transportation and Autonomous Systems Institute (TASI) at IU Indianapolis, as well as IU’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Manufacturing Policy Initiative.
TASI is a collaborative university, industry, and government consortium that facilitates research, development, evaluation, and assessment of transportation active safety systems. A cross-campus research center, faculty members from more than ten departments and schools at Indiana University Indianapolis, Indiana University Bloomington, and Purdue University West Lafayette are involved in TASI’s research activities.
TASI’s main activities are: vehicle testing and evaluation; human factors in active safety systems; crash data analysis and risk benefit analysis; scientific research on automation of selected driving functions; crash prevention technologies; connected vehicles.
O’Neill is currently the #1 ranked public affairs school in the country. Its Manufacturing Policy Initiative studies challenges facing the U.S. manufacturing sector, assesses public policies that impact the industry, and identifies policy options for enhancing this vital component of the U.S. economy.
The initiative serves as a source of objective, state-of-the-art information; offers analysis and recommendations on public policy issues affecting U.S. manufacturing; and is a resource for policy makers, manufacturers, the workforce, and other academics.
The Kelley Manufacturing Center for Excellence similarly coordinates its activities with a number of leading Indiana manufacturing profession organizations including Conexus Indiana and the Indiana Manufacturers Association (IMA). Conexus, founded by a group of industry leaders and part of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), maintains and grows Indiana’s competitive advantage as a global advanced manufacturing powerhouse and logistics hub. Formed in 1901, the IMA is the second oldest manufacturers association in the country and the only trade association in Indiana that exclusively focuses on manufacturing. The Indiana Manufacturers Association is dedicated to advocating for a business climate that creates, protects, and promotes quality manufacturing jobs in Indiana.