REU Site: Automotive Technologies at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and Virginia Tech

EEC-0552832 Jan J.Bohn该奖项将在德国达姆施塔特理工大学(TUD)建立一个新的面向本科生的国际研究经验(REU)网站，并在弗吉尼亚理工大学(VT)建立一个较小的支线和同一主题的准备REU网站。该计划将集中在对与机械工程、机电一体化、计算机科学、协同工程及其交叉领域相关的汽车技术感兴趣的本科生。被选入该项目的学生必须在科学和工程领域的研究生学习和研究生涯中表现出明确的潜力和能力。该计划将包括让学生在一个夏天在VT进行研究，然后在下一个夏天继续在TUD进行这项工作。在暑假结束时，学生们将在两个REU地点之间通过双向视频直播的双站点会议上展示他们的工作。这个双REU站点的目标是：(1)提供积极的学生研究体验；(2)随着REU学生将他们的研究从一个夏天的VT过渡到第二个夏天的TUD，加强和拓宽跨大西洋教师合作的接口。它还将：(1)让美国本科工程专业学生亲身接触工程专业的全球化；(2)向他们展示他们可以积极参与、贡献和受益于这种全球化；(3)通过让他们接触两种工程文化，帮助他们成长为工程师和人；(4)鼓励他们攻读研究生课程，并可能从事研究工作；(5)为美国行业和政府机构提供具有国际竞争力和参与全球事务的未来员工；以及(6)提供一个预测模型，使单个学生与最有效的全球接触模式最佳匹配，以利于未来的国际REU项目。

EEC-0552832Jan J. BohnThis award will establish a new international Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt (TUD), Germany with a smaller feeder and preparation REU Site on the same theme at Virginia Tech (VT). The program will concentrate on undergraduate students who have an interest in automotive technologies related to the fields of mechanical engineering, mechatronics, computer science, collaborative engineering, and their intersections. Students who are selected for the program must show a definite potential and aptitude for graduate studies and research careers in science and engineering. The program will include the option for students to conduct research at VT one summer, and then continue this work at the TUD the following summer. At the end of the summer, the students will present their work at a dual site conference with live two-way video between the two REU locations.The objectives of this dual-REU site are: (1) to provide positive student research experiences; and (2) to enhance and broaden the interface of the transatlantic faculty collaborations as the REU students transition their research from VT one summer to the TUD the subsequent summer. It will also: (1) expose U.S. undergraduate engineering students firsthand to the globalization of the engineering profession; (2) show them that they can positively participate in, contribute to, and benefit from this globalization; (3) help them grow as engineers and people by giving them exposure to two engineering cultures; (4) encourage them to pursue graduate studies and possibly research careers; (5) provide U.S. industry and government agencies with future employees that are internationally competitive, and globally engaged; and (6) provide a predictive model that best matches an individual student with the most effective mode of global exposure, for the benefit of future international REU programs.