IREE 2008 Grantees Conference being held: May 2-3, 2008 in the Washington, DC area

普渡大学提议在华盛顿特区举办2008年国际工程研究与教育（IREE）会议。日期是2008年5月2-3日。在提案中没有给出地点，但在另一封电子邮件中，PI的助理张雅婷博士表示，将选择凯悦杜勒斯酒店作为地点；见附件中她的电子邮件。IREE会议将由早期职业教师、本科生和研究生以及2007年由IREE项目资助的博士后参加。IREE计划于2006年由ENG/EEC发起，旨在为工程局现有部门的现有获奖者提供补充资金。IREE的目标是使美国的早期职业研究人员获得国际研究经验和视角。此外，通过与自费的外国同行合作，扩大由英语项目资助的现有研究项目，IREE寻求加强美国在研究和教育方面的创新。在2007年举行的为期3天的会议上，2006财年获得IREE资助的受资助者探讨了国际研究合作以及国际研究经验可能对其研究质量和研究人员技术能力的影响。大多数与会者（如果不是全部的话）支持国际合作的想法，并同意这种合作对他们的研究和成为全球工程师的教育之旅都有积极的影响。2007年会议提出的建议之一是，利用下一次会议将最佳实践反馈给未来的受资助者。2006年的受奖人是2007年会议的参与者，他们觉得他们已经解决了许多问题，包括技术、后勤和人际关系，他们有很多东西可以分享。他们建议在IREE参与者出国进行研究任务之前，为他们提供一个更正式的培训项目。他们还建议将会议时间减少到1.5天至2天，以重叠一个周末。目前的提案是针对2007财年资助的受资助者的2008年会议，并响应了2007年会议参与者的建议。该提案的负责人Dan Hirleman教授是一位备受尊敬的教师和研究人员。他是普渡大学机械工程学院院长，也是普渡大学全球工程项目的临时主任。

Purdue University has proposed to organize the 2008 International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) Conference in the Washington, DC area. The dates are May 2-3, 2008. The venue is not given in the proposal but in a separate e-mail, Dr. Yating Chang, an associate of the PI, has indicated that Hotel Hyatt Dulles will be the chosen venue; see her e-mail attached. The IREE conference will be attended by early-career faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows funded by the IREE Program in 2007. The IREE Program was initiated by ENG/EEC in 2006 to provide supplemental funding to current awardees in existing divisions in the Directorate for Engineering. The goal of IREE is to enable early-career researchers in the U.S. to gain international research experience and perspective. Additionally, by broadening existing research projects funded by programs in ENG through partnership with self-supported foreign counterparts, IREE seeks to enhance U.S. innovation in both research and education. In the 3-day conference held in 2007, IREE grantees funded in FY2006 explored international research collaborations and the impact that an international research experience may have on the quality of their research as well as on the technical competency of the researchers. Most, if not all, conference attendees support the idea of international collaborations, and agree that such collaborations have positive impact both on their research and on their educational journey to being global engineers.One of the recommendations that came out of the 2007 conference was to use the next conference to feed-forward best practices to future grantees. The 2006 grantees, the participants of the 2007 conference, felt that they had attacked a number of problems, technical, logistical, and interpersonal, and that they had much to share. They recommended that a more formal orientation program be offered to IREE participants before they travel abroad for the research assignment. They also recommended that the time for the conference be reduced to 1.5-2 days to overlap a weekend. The current proposal concerns the 2008 conference for the grantees funded in FY2007, and is responsive to the recommendations by participants of the 2007 conference. The PI of this proposal, Professor Dan Hirleman, is a highly regarded teacher and researcher. He is the Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue, and is the Interim Director of Purdue's Global Engineering Program.