Educating Engineering Innovators: Planning Visit for Finalizing Collaborative Research in China

VANASUPA教育工程创新者：计划访问中国完成合作研究加州理工州立大学（Cal Poly）获得了旅行支持，一个由12名美国参与者（8名高级教师，2名初级教师和2名研究生）组成的多学科团队将访问上海同济大学和南京工业大学。2008年1月规划访问的目的是评估国外场地的专门知识、能力和设施，以便制定一项协议，开展针对工程学习机制的后续研究：即如何教育工程师在全球市场上创新和设计可持续的解决方案。 美国PI是琳达Vanasupa博士，教育全球工程师倡议主任和加州理工学院材料工程教授。 中国的主要同行是同济大学环境科学与工程学院副院长、教授赵建福博士和南京工业大学国际合作办公室刘伟庆博士。规划访问活动是经过深思熟虑的结构和理论重点。规划访问将促进明确研究多样性（性别，种族，经济和文化）对工程教育的影响的研究。

ABSTRACT0753147 VANASUPAEducating Engineering Innovators: Planning Visit for Finalizing Collaborative Research in ChinaThe California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is awarded travel support for a multidisciplinary team of 12 U.S. participants (8 senior faculty, 2 junior faculty and 2 graduate students) to visit to two institutions in China: Tongji University in Shanghai and Nanjing University of Technology in Nanjing. The objective of the January 2008 planning visit is to assess the expertise, capabilities and facilities at the foreign sites in order to develop a protocol to conduct follow-on research aimed at engineering learning mechanisms: that is, how to educate engineers to innovate and design sustainable solutions in the global marketplace. The U.S. PI is Dr. Linda Vanasupa, director of the Educating Global Engineers Initiative and Professor of Materials Engineering at Cal Poly. The primary Chinese counterparts are Dr. ZHAO, Jianfu, Vice President and Professor in the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Tongji University, and Dr. LIU, Weiqing, International Cooperation Office, Nanjing University of Technology. The planning visit activities are thoughtfully structured and theoretically focused. The planning visit will catalyze research that explicitly examines the influence of diversity (gender, ethnic, economic and cultural) on engineering education.