Travel Support to Attend the International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2008 to be held in Nanjing, China, Nov. 8-11, 2008

申请部分资金支持10名美国研究人员/教育工作者参加2008年11月8-11日在南京举行的国际实验力学会议，中国。这次会议是实验力学领域的一项重要活动，每两年举行一次，吸引了来自国际学术界、政府实验室和工业界的许多科学家、工程师和研究人员。会议的目的是将研究人员和工程师聚集在一起，讨论实验力学的最新进展，并作为实验力学广泛领域的国际合作和伙伴关系的催化剂。美国代表将从美国活跃的研究人员库中选出。预计一些来自美国的代表将担任会议的主旨/全体发言人。这次会议将作为一个工具/论坛，建立伙伴关系，促进国际合作，使美国高等教育受益。

Funding is requested to partially support ten US researchers/educators to attend the International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, November 8-11, 2008 in Nanjing, China. The conference has been an important event in experimental mechanics held every two years attracting many scientists, engineers and researchers from academia, government laboratories, and industry internationally. The objectives of the conference are to bring together researchers and engineers to discuss recent advances in experimental mechanics and to serve as a catalyst for international collaboration and partnership in the broad area of experimental mechanics. The US delegates will be selected from a pool of active researchers in US. It is anticipated that a number of delegates from USA will be the keynote/plenary speakers of the conference. The conference will serve as a vehicle/forum to build partnership toward international collaboration benefiting US higher education in general.