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Paris, Munich, July 1st, 2024 Capgemini announces the acquisition of Lsch & Partner to augment its capabilities in application lifecycle management and systems engineering, notably for German automotive manufacturers. The transaction closed on June 28, 2024.

Lsch & Partner is headquartered in Munich. Since its creation in 1984, Lsch & Partner has built-up deep expertise on industry leading tools and processes for application lifecycle management and systems engineering in the automotive industry, establishing it as one of the most experienced and specialist boutique providers in Germany. Capgemini and Lsch & Partner share a number of common clients in the automotive space.

As a strategic business partner to its clients, Capgemini is pioneering intelligent industry the new era of digital transformation characterized by a growing convergence of the physical and virtual worlds in terms of products, software, data, and services. The management of applications, throughout their lifecycle, is crucial to the development and maintenance of software-defined products that are driving intelligent industry.

Henrik Ljungstrm, managing director of Capgemini in Germany, comments Capgemini is designing, developing and delivering tomorrows products and services that are both smart and connected. We welcome the Lsch & Partner team to the Group. Their specialist expertise will augment our in-demand services for software-defined products that are at the heart of intelligent industry for automotive players and manufacturers more broadly.

Lsch & Partner enables the future competitiveness of manufacturing companies via state-of-the-art product development processes, to enable the convergence of software and hardware. This fits perfectly with Capgeminis end to end approach to enabling intelligent industry. Combining our expertise and leveraging the Groups global scale will mean we can better serve the needs of our joint clients, said Nick Dudok, CEO of Lsch & Partner.

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Capgemini reinforces its automotive systems engineering capabilities in Germany with the acquisition of Lsch & Partner - Capgemini

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Mechanical engineering master's student Justin Dykstra, left, works with Cengiz Koparan, assistant professor of precision agriculture technology in the Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology Department. Koparan is one of 10 U of A System faculty members recently awarded $25,000 in the first Engineering Applications in Agriculture seed funding program.

Ingenuity in agriculture requires collaboration, and seed funds, to make an impact.

That's the mindset behind Engineering Applications in Agriculture, an innovation accelerator created with funding from the U of A College of Engineering, the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Stationand the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

"This initiative was designed to foster collaboration and create opportunities for significant impact," saidSandra D. Eksioglu, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering. "The two criteria used for selecting proposals to fund through this program were intellectual merit and broader impacts."

On July 1, five winning teams in the first Engineering Applications in Agriculture program were awarded $25,000 each to carry out their projects. Over the next year, they'll conduct research to put their ideas into action.

Mary Savin, head of the Horticulture Department, said the overarching goal of the program is for researchers to develop new collaborations with colleagues from other colleges and to assist them in developing proof-of-concept outcomes that have "strong potential to secure future external funding."

"When the teams later submit their work to the National Science Foundationor the U.S. Department of Agriculture, they will be better positioned to make a compelling case and have a higher chance of receiving funding," added Eksioglu, who is also professor of industrial engineering and Hefley Professor in Logistics and Entrepreneurship.

During the spring semester,Savin and Eksiogluorganized two workshops to bring together faculty from both colleges, providing them with a platform to network, share research and form teams aimed at pursuing external funding. Next, they established the Engineering Applications in Agriculture program, an internal seed funding program, to support the newly formed teams.

The winning teams and projects for the first Engineering Applications in Agriculture program include the following faculty members, with principal investigators and their co-principal investigators, respectively:

To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website:aaes.uada.edu. Follow on Twitter at @ArkAgResearch. To learn more about the Division of Agriculture, visituada.edu/.Follow us on Twitter at@AgInArk. To learn about extension programs in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visitwww.uaex.uada.edu.

About the College of Engineering:The University of ArkansasCollege of Engineeringis the largest engineering program in the state of Arkansas. Over the past 15 years, the college has experienced unprecedented growth. Undergraduate enrollment reached just over 3,300 in fall 2023, and total enrollment in the college is nearly 4,500 students. The College of Engineering offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in seven engineering departments: biological and agricultural, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and computer science, industrial and mechanical. The college also offers distance learning and interdisciplinary programs, including data science. Faculty in the college conduct research in many key areas, including biomedical and healthcare, electronics, energy, healthcare logistics, materials science, nanotechnology, transportation and logistics. Emerging research areas include advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, data science, infrastructure, membranes and separation and water.

About the Division of Agriculture:The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation's historic land grant education system.The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs and services without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences:Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture. For more information about Bumpers College, visit ourwebsite, and follow us on Twitter at@BumpersCollegeand Instagram atBumpersCollege.

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Researchers at RIT are developing non-invasive technology that will better assess cardiac tissue response to thermal energy, a common therapy approach for both cancer and cardiac arrhythmia treatments.

Cristian Linte, a professor of biomedical engineering, is leading a cross-disciplinary team that was recently awarded National Science Foundation Collaborative Research funding to further develop an interactive, computing platform to characterize and monitor thermal cardiac tissue ablation therapy.

Ablation is a medical technique using heat, extreme cold, or chemical interventions to destroy abnormally functioning, diseased tissues. While effective, understanding how ablation affects healthy surrounding tissue has had limited study.

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RIT biomedical engineering professor Cristian Linte

Understanding thermal effects on biological tissues is crucial for many biological applications, including thermal therapies aimed at destroying pathological cells while preserving surrounding healthy tissue. However, there are no feasible means to monitor tissue response to thermal energy to characterize and visualize ablation patterns to ensure reversible injury and avoid incomplete ablation, said Linte, an expert in medical imaging and image-guided technologies in RITs Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

Modern, minimally invasive ablative treatments for some cancers or heart rhythm disorders rely on the use of heat delivered to tissue in the form of radiofrequency energy to destroy a cancerous tumor or diseased tissue in the heart that causes rhythm abnormalities. The process blocks irregular heart signals and is a means to restore standard heartbeat patterns. Ablation provides an effective and less invasive option, but as many as 50 percent of ablation patients experience disease recurrence due to incomplete tissue ablation, Linte explained.

Successful treatment requires continuous ablation patterns that induce permanent thermal damage to the tissue. However, temperature measurements inside the heart are invasive and unfeasible, he said. Unfortunately, routine medical imaging provides no quantitative appraisal of the induced thermal damage. Traditional computational tools used to study ablation are prohibitive for intra-operative use. There are no effective means to quantify heat transfer in biological tissue to interactively characterize and visualize thermal ablation lesions.

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RIT mechanical engineering professor Satish Kandlikar.

As part of the research team, Linte will be joined by Satish Kandlikar, RIT professor of mechanical engineering, and Suzanne Shontz, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, experts in heat transfer and computational bioengineering respectively.

Combining a cross-disciplinary approach, the team will explore heat transfer theory, image computing and visualization, biomedical modeling and simulation to build, model and quantify tissue response to thermal energy.

Experimental validation is essential to confirm analytical and numerical models, especially in biological systems, said Kandlikar who leads RITs Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab. He will focus on the propagation of thermal energy and provide a temperature map of tissue during the ablation process in simulated tissue material that mimics biological tissue at the cardiac wall. The experimental data will be used to further refine the models developed during this study.

Since knowledge of tissue temperature distribution is critical to accurately predict thermal effects, computationally efficient models that integrate engineering heat transport mechanisms alongside tissue pathophysiology are needed to quantify thermal energy effects on tissues and interactively characterize, visualize, and monitor induced thermal injury, said Shontz, who also serves as the University of Kansas associate dean of research.

Shontz and Linte have collaborated on an earlier diagnostic project, also funded by the NSF, and similar in its development of computing and engineering models to appraise biomechanical heart functions.

This current project is already contributing new knowledge in scientific computing, engineering, and physiological modeling by helping to characterize thermal injury delivered to heart tissue during therapy.

This research has the potential to reshape biological, engineering and material science applications that involve heat transfer modeling and heat flow characterization by enabling, for the first time, intra-operative, quantitative monitoring of heat transfer and thermal effects, said Linte.

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