Engineering Design Center (EDC) was created in April 2000 under an agreement between General Electric Aircraft Engines and Warsaw Institute of Aviation (now Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation). EDC is one of several global GE establishments located outside the United States and cooperates with such GE businesses as GE Aviation, GE Power. It also carries out cooperative works with similar GE scientific and engineering centers located in India, Mexico, Turkey and the United States. The engineers working in EDC cooperate also with GE’s partners located, among others, in Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Romania, South Korea and Taiwan.