Delphi Corporation receives WSU corporate leadership award
The Delphi Corporation Inc. of Troy, Mich. has received the Corporate Citizenship Award from Wayne State University at a ceremony June 16 recognizing outstanding leaders in business making significant contributions to their companies and communities. Delphi contributed more than $7 million in state-of-the-art clean room equipment to the College of Engineering's Smart Sensor and Integrated Microsystems (SSIM) lab.
Andrew Brown, Delphi director of engineering, and a graduate of the WSU College of Engineering and Graduate School of Business, accepted the award. Brown was instrumental in Delphi's partnership with the SSIM lab. The addition of the Delphi clean room equipment helps facilitate pioneering work at the SSIM lab in micro-electrical-mechanical technology. At SSIM, multi-disciplinary teams are working on a variety of projects poised to yield many wondrous applications for medicine, the environment, aerospace, transportation and national defense. Two Delphi researchers are serving as adjunct faculty and a number of Delphi scientists and engineers are on-site performing research in the College of Engineering. Delphi also uses the equipment for research programs in automotive and new market technologies.
Corporate Leadership Awards honor the accomplishments of Wayne State University graduates and others who hold executive-level positions and are recognized as business and community leaders. Wayne State University has been celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding business leaders for 21 years.
The other awardees include Terry A. Reiley, president of the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, the Michigan Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital and senior vice president of the Detroit Medical Center, who will receive the 21st Century Award; Ed Christian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Saga Communications, Inc., who will receive the Distinguished Corporate Leader Award; and writer, producer and director Monice Mitchell Simms, of Flower Girl Productions, Inc., who will receive the Emerging Corporate Leader Award.
Under the leadership of J.T. Battenberg III, chairman of the board, chief operating officer and president, Delphi has become a world leader in mobile electronics and transportation components and systems technology. Multi-national Delphi conducts its business operations through various subsidiaries and has headquarters in Michigan, Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Delphi's two business sectors provide comprehensive product solutions to complex customer needs. Delphi has approximately 186,000 employees and operates 172 wholly owned manufacturing sites, 42 joint ventures, 53 customer centers and sales offices, and 34 technical centers in 41 countries.