International Planning Visit to East Asia on Micro-Manufacturing and Manufacturing of Lightweight Structures

美国弗吉尼亚联邦大学机械工程系副教授、NSF I/UCRC精密成形中心（#IIP 0638588）联合主任Muammer Koc将获得该奖项，资助他对东亚进行微型制造和轻型结构制造的国际规划访问。 计划访问将于2007年7月7日至22日进行，PI将与中国、韩国和日本的同行会面。 主办单位包括中国上海交通大学机械工程学院李树辉教授、韩国首尔国立大学机械与航空航天工程系OH，Soo-Ik教授和日本名古屋工业大学工程物理与电子系DOHDA，Kuniaki教授。 这次规划访问具有强大的潜力，以推进在轻量化和微型制造，替代能源和生物医学设备应用领域的知识。 主要研究者和同行都确定了新兴的合作，由于强大的研究协同作用，后续合作的可能性很高。 此次规划访问有可能使美国和全球制造业更加灵活，并减少污染物对东亚全球环境的负面影响，东亚是部署可持续制造和工程解决方案的关键地区。

ABSTRACTOISE-0728987 Koc, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityInternational Planning Visit to East Asia on Micro-Manufacturing and Manufacturing Lightweight StructuresThis award provides funding for a planning visit for the U.S. PI, Muammer Koc, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Precision Forming (#IIP 0638588) at the Virginia Commonwealth University. The planning visit will occur July 7-22, 2007 and the PI will meet with counterparts in China, South Korea and Japan. The counterpart hosts are Professor LI, Shuhui, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Professor OH, Soo-Ik, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Seoul National University, South Korea; and Professor DOHDA, Kuniaki, Department of Engineering Physics and Electronics at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. This planning visit has the strong potential to advance knowledge in the fields of lightweight and micro-manufacturing, alternative energy and biomedical device applications. Both the PI and counterparts have identified emerging collaborations with a high likelihood of follow-up due to strong research synergies. The planning visit has the potential to make U.S. and global manufacturing more nimble and to reduce the negative impact of pollutants on the global environment in East Asia, a critical region for deployment of sustainable manufacturing and engineering solutions.