The center is on River Park Drive east of South Patterson Boulevard on the University of Dayton campus.
“Next-generation aircraft will demand up to four times more power than today for key functions and systems,” Vic Bonneau, president of Electrical Power Systems for GE Aviation, said in a statement. “This center will yield system-level advantages so that our customers can more rapidly benefit from this trend in energy management, climate control, radars and sensors, silicon carbide-based power conversion and electric actuation, to name a few.”
The EPISCENTER will be “the intellectual heart and soul” of GE’s electrical power business with potentially 150 to 200 researchers in the next five years depending on future research programs, the company said.