Behr GmbH & Co. KG manufactures automotive air conditioning and engine cooling systems. It supplies original equipment for light vehicles and trucks. Its products and services include passenger cars, commercial vehicles, aftermarket, motor sport and engines, services, industrial applications, small engine components and mechatronics. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Homag Group AG manufactures and distributes machines and systems for the construction of furniture, kitchens, timber houses, windows, wooden floors, and staircases. Its products include storage systems, panel dividing saws, edge banding machines, wide-belt sanding machines, carpentry machines, solid wood portals, sorting and collating systems, case clamps, cardboard-box cutting machines, feeding systems, assembly tables, as well as framing station and combi wall systems. The company was founded by Eugen Hornberger and Gerhard Schuler in 1960 and is headquartered in Schopfloch, Germany.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute used a polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction. MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934.