Volkswagen engineer Alexander Faupel has been presented with the 2016 Chattanooga Area E-Week Young Engineer of the Year award by the Chattanooga Engineers Society. Faupel graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He started out working at the North American Engineering and Planning Center (EPC) last summer as an Engineering Associate. Afterwards he spend three months working on the Midsize SUV project with Volkswagen in Germany.
“Congratulations to Alex. We are very proud and happy to have him on the EPC team,” says Dr. Matthias Erb, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Planning. “Volkswagen keeps attracting young talents who help us in our ongoing effort to develop vehicles specifically for the US market.”
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