Automobile makers will discuss the future of vehicle propulsion at MSU's Management Education Center in Troy on Wednesday.

The discussion is one of many events that are a part of the 38th annual Broad Executive Forum. It will feature a panel that will debate alternative fuels to gasoline.

Members of the panel include Jarett Carson, vice president of Equity Research, Energy & Power Technology of RBC Capital, Robert Stempel, chairman of ECD Ovonics, and others.

The forum will be from 1 to 9 p.m. Registration for the event, which includes dinner, is $90 and can be done over the phone at (517) 432-9176 or online at www.bus.msu.edu/bef.

Joseph Montes