Collaborative Research between General Motors Corporation and Iowa State University

通用汽车公司技术教育计划 和爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）的统计系有一个合作伙伴关系，通用汽车公司（GM）的员工可以获得一个非论文硕士学位。持有统计学学位，透过录影带修读本系的正规课程。 学位要求包括导致正式论文的研究部分（创意部分）。 来自全球机制的学生将有共同的主要教授，一名来自全球机制的统计师和一名来自国际空间大学的统计师。 该提案的目的是创造访问和互动的机会，帮助通用汽车的学生进行这种创造性的研究，并介绍ISU教师研究行业感兴趣的问题。 该项目将资助两种不同但相关类型的互动：1）ISU人员与GM学生和共同主要教授的现场访问，2）与GM研究实验室的科学家合作研究。 1997年夏天，国际空间大学的一名统计学家将访问全球机制的学生和共同教授，讨论公司的利益和合作领域，并确定创造性组成部分研究的适当课题。 在1998年夏天，此人将再花一个月的时间与转基因科学家进行合作研究。 1998年夏天，第二名教员将花两个月的时间进行访问和合作研究。 作为他们访问转基因研究科学家的一部分，这些教员将为转基因统计学家和工程师举办现代统计方法研讨会。 这种拟议的互动将产生可持续的创意组件，为ISU教师和真实的行业问题的解决方案的研究思路的主题。 通过拟议的互动，GM学生的教育经验将大大增强。 通用汽车的学生将接触到学术和工业的研究方法。 理想情况下，他们的创造性成分将回答通用汽车公司的一个特定的问题，并提出新的问题，为ISU教师，可以作为个人研究和未来ISU研究生的后续课题。 最终结果将是知识在对行业实践重要的方向上的进步。 由于全球机制的项目可能将联合收割机统计和工程相结合，许多项目将作为协调中心，将国际空间大学统计和工程系的教员聚集在一起。 因此，国际空间大学很可能从这一项目中开展更多的合作研究。 该GOALI项目由MPS多学科活动办公室（OMA）和数学科学部（DMS）联合支持。

The General Motors Corporation Technical Education Program and the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University (ISU) have a partnership under which General Motors (GM) employees can earn a non-thesis M.S. Degree in Statistics taking regular courses from the department via video tape. The degree requirements include a research component that results in a formal paper (creative component). Students from GM will have co-major professors, a statistician from GM and a statistician from ISU. The purpose of this proposal is to create opportunities for visits and interactions that will help the GM students with this creative component research and introduce ISU faculty to research problems of interest to industry. This project will fund interactions of two different but related types: 1) site visits by ISU personnel with GM students and co-major professors and 2) collaborative research with scientists at GM Research Labs. In the summer of 1997, one ISU statistician will visit GM students and co-major professors, discussing company interests and areas for collaboration, and identifying appropriate topics for creative component research. In the summer of 1998, this person will spend 1 additional month doing collaborative research with GM scientists. In the summer of 1998 a second faculty member will spend two months engaged in visits and collaborative research. As part of their visits with GM research scientists, these faculty members will give seminars for GM statisticians and engineers on modern statistical methods. This proposed interaction will produce topics for publishable creative components, research ideas for ISU faculty members and solutions for real industry problems. The educational experience of the students at GM will be greatly enhanced through the proposed interaction. The GM students will be exposed to both academic and industrial approaches to research. Ideally, their creative components will both answer a particular q uestion for GM and raise new questions for the ISU faculty members, that can serve as subsequent topics for both personal research and for that of future ISU graduate students. The end result will then be the advancement of knowledge in directions important to industry practice. Since the projects at GM will likely combine statistics and engineering, many will serve as focal points to bring together ISU faculty members from Statistics and Engineering. Additional collaborative research at ISU is thus likely to follow from this project. This GOALI project is jointly supported by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS).