Founded in 2007, the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research is an advanced-technology research campus
where education, research, and economic development collaborate to create a global venue for the automotive industry.
CU-ICAR is home to the nation’s only graduate Department of Automotive Engineering. Here, nearly 200 Clemson students are pursuing Master of Science and/or PhD degrees in Automotive Engineering. Thanks to the work of our world-class faculty, our students learn in an innovative research-and-educational program that focuses on the vehicle and its infrastructure from a systems-integration perspective. Our entire program is devoted to the discipline of automotive engineering.
