A Planning Proposal to Establish a Franco-American Doctoral Student Exchange for Energy and Sustainability

该项目为2007年秋季在巴黎举行的一次研讨会提供支助，以讨论建立一个新的法美博士网络。该网络的目标是在美国和法国之间的能源和可持续发展的主题领域的博士生的大规模交流。美国首席研究员是佛罗里达大学的迈克尔·斯科特，两位共同研究员是来自UIUC的梅勒妮·洛茨和来自格鲁吉亚理工学院的史蒂文·麦克劳克林。 法国的合作者是法国大学的官方全国理事会-大学校长会议。本次研讨会的主要目标是：建立一套具体的目标和成果的博士网络;获得所有参与美国和法国机构的承诺，以促进在2008年秋季启动博士网络的目标;建立网络的行政和财务结构;建立一个网络的运作框架，包括半年一次的研讨会和语言和文化资源的学生。这个博士网络计划利用研究和教育的优势，美国和法国，同时加强两国之间的研究和机构联系。 它可能会为美国学生提供出色的国际经验，以帮助创建一个全球参与的科学劳动力。该网络还计划包括一个正式的评估计划，该计划将研究国际学生联合咨询的影响，可用于通知其他网络，并将积极努力增加具有国际研究经验的代表性不足的少数民族的数量。

This project provides support for a workshop in Paris of Fall 2007 to discuss the formation of a new Franco-American Doctoral Network. The goal of this network is the large-scale exchange of doctoral students between the U.S. and France in the subject areas of energy and sustainability. The U.S. principal investigator is Michael Scott of University of Florida, and the two co-PIs are Melanie Loots from UIUC and Steven McLaughlin from Georgia Tech. The French collaborators are the Conference des Presidents d'Universites, the official National Council of French Universities. The primary goals of this workshop are to: establish a concrete set of objectives and outcomes for the Doctoral Network; obtain commitments from all participating U.S. and French institutions to facilitate the goal of starting the Doctoral Network in Fall 2008; establish the administrative and financial structure of the network; establish an operational framework for the network to include semiannual workshops and language and cultural resources for the students.This doctoral network plans to leverage the research and educational strengths in the U.S. and France while strengthening research and institutional ties between the two countries. It will likely provide an outstanding international experience for U.S. students to help create a globally-engaged scientific workforce. The network also plans to include a formal assessment program that will study the impact of international co-advising of students, which can be used to inform other networks, and will actively work to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who have international research experiences.