This comprehensive program builds upon a decades-long strategic partnership with UCF, focused on fostering innovation, advancing technology and developing the next-generation workforce.

“For decades, Siemens has grown to be one of Orlando’s largest employers with a strong commitment to our community and a long history of collaborating with our hometown university, UCF,” said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. “Like the many other successful partnerships forged between Siemens and UCF, the new Digital Smart Grid Lab supports the City’s continued efforts to make Orlando a national leader in sustainability, in training the next generation of high-tech workers and helping create high-wage jobs in emerging career fields."

This past fall, Siemens provided UCF with an in-kind grant of product lifecycle management software with a commercial value of $68 million – marking the largest grant in university history. For more than three decades, Siemens has called the Orlando area home, with a nearly 5,000-employee footprint spanning power generation, transmission and distribution, energy-efficient buildings and infrastructure, medical imaging and healthcare diagnostics.

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About Siemens , UCF Partnership and Orlando Footprint

Siemens and UCF share a long history in the Central Florida community, and both are committed to fostering innovation, advancing technology and developing the next generation workforce. For more than three decades, Siemens has called the Orlando area home, including the company’s Energy Hub, adjacent to UCF’s main campus.

About UCF

The University of Central Florida, one of the largest universities in the nation with more than 64,000 students, uses the power of scale and the pursuit of excellence to make a better future for our students and society. Described by The Washington Post as demolishing “the popular belief that exclusivity is a virtue in higher education” and credited by Politico with creating a “seamless pipeline of social mobility,” UCF is recognized as one of the best values in higher education. UCF aligns its teaching, research and service with the needs of the community and beyond, offering more than 200 degree programs at more than a dozen locations, including its main campus in Orlando. Faculty and students are creating innovations in areas as diverse as simulation and training, optics and lasers, hospitality management, video game design, business, education and health care to solve local and global problems. For more information, visit www.ucf.edu.

About Siemens

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 348,000 employees in more than 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $86.2 billion in fiscal 2015. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $22.4 billion, including $5.5 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com.

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