U.S.-European Third Global Engineering Education Workshop, Aachen, Germany, October 18-20, 2000

这项为期一年的奖项支持25名美国初级教员参加2000年10月18日至20日在德国亚琛举行的第三届全球工程教育研讨会--培养21世纪的工程师，以及在研讨会结束后访问法国格勒诺布尔亚琛和瑞士洛桑的研究实验室。研讨会的组织者是弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学、法国格勒诺布尔国家理工学院(INPG)、瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院(EPF)和亚琛的莱茵-韦斯法利施理工学院(RWTH)。该讲习班是未来工程教育新思想和新概念的论坛，将讨论工程实践的国际化和跨学科以及信息技术的影响等问题。教育与培训、终身学习、工程教育、研究和行业之间的互动，以及最佳实践都是研讨会的其他主题。与会者还将访问研讨会东道国附近机构的潜在研究伙伴。我们的目标是发展未来的合作。一些感兴趣的领域是信息技术、通信、运输、材料和生物信息学。会议组织机构建议跟踪在匹配感兴趣的研究人员方面的进展。研讨会的网站将展示这些研究访问的访问报告，这些报告最终可能被用来确定一个机构的特殊优势和劣势。该项目利用了三个世界级研究和教育机构的专业知识。INPG、EPF和RWTH提供严格的工程教育和研究计划。此外，研讨会将导致与这些欧洲学校的持续机构联系和未来的研究合作。

0083982KurstedtThis one-year award supports the participation of 25 U.S. junior faculty in the third global engineering education workshop, Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century, in Aachen, Germany, October 18-20, 2000, and in post-workshop visits to research laboratories in Aachen, Grenoble, France, and Lausanne, Switzerland. The organizers of the workshop are Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPF) in Switzerland, and the Rheinisch-Wesfalische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen. The workshop is a forum of new ideas and concepts for future engineering education and will address such issues as the internationalization and interdisciplinarity of engineering practice and the impact of information technology. Education versus training, lifelong learning, interaction between engineering education, research and industry, and best practices are other workshop topics. Participants will also visit with potential research partners at institutions near the partner hosts of the workshop. The goal is to develop future collaborations. Some areas of interest are information technology, communications, transportation, materials, and bioinformatics. The conference organizing institutions propose to track progress in matching researchers of like interest. The workshop website will feature the visit reports of these research visits which eventually could be used to determine an institution's particular strengths and weaknesses.The project takes advantage of expertise in three world class research and education institutions. INPG, EPF and RWTH offer rigorous engineering education and research programs. In addition, the workshop will lead to sustained institutional ties with these European schools and future research collaborations.