Workshop on Fundamental Research for National Competitiveness; Ann Arbor, Michigan; October 1991

将举办一次讲习班，以确定如何集中进行制造工艺和设备领域的学术研究，以解决国家竞争力问题。约35名参加者将获邀参加是次工作坊。他们将来自工业界、学术界和政府的活跃社区，这三个部分的代表人数大致相等。在这个国家显然正在失去与其主要贸易伙伴竞争的能力的时期，重要的是将社会各阶层聚集在一起，共同解决这个问题。之所以需要这样做，是基于这样一个概念，即工业基础设施的持续侵蚀威胁着我们的生活方式。

A workshop is to be held to determine how academic research in the area of manufacturing processes and equipment can be focussed to address issues of national competitiveness. About 35 participants will be invited to attend this workshop. They will be from industry, the active community in academia and the government, with approximately equal representation from the three segments. In a time period when the nation is clearly losing it's ability to compete with it's major trading partners, it is important to bring together various segments of society to jointly address the issue. The need for this is based on the concept that a continued erosion of our industrial infrastructure threatens our way of life.