Posted: Today at 2:24 p.m. CLEMSON, S.C. — A $2.4 million bankroll is at the center of a collaboration between AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T ) and Clemson University will further automotive engineering at the university's International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

Mircea Gradu, Director of Transmission and Driveline Engineering at Chrysler, LLC, is the recipient of SAE International's Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation. To be presented the award at the SAE Detroit Section Meeting on April 14, Gradu, with 19 years in the automotive industry, has published more than 30 technical papers and publications and was granted 21 patents on ...