Review of NSF Engineering Research Centers

每年，交叉学科研究部都会举办一次研讨会，向工程界通报工程研究中心的活动。本次研讨会的目的是展示中心如何在跨学科研究和教育领域实现ERC计划的目标，以及在促进工业与学术工程计划的互动方面。今年的研讨会将与美国工程教育学会的年度会议一起举行。这次会议通常会吸引来自所有工程学科的约2,000名工程教育者。由于ERC计划的部分目的是改变工程教育和研究的“文化”，预计ERC sarellite研讨会将有大小大学的代表参加，并将提供一个实施这一变化的论坛。

Each year the Division of Cross.Disciplinary Research sponsors a symposium to inform the engineering community of the activities of the Engineering Research Centers. The purpose of this symposium is to show how the Centers are meeting the goals of the ERC program in the areas of cross.disciplinary research and education, and in the promotion of industrial interaction with academic engineering programs. This year the symposium will be conducted in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education. This meeting normally attracts about 2,000 engineering educators from all engineering disciplines. Since part of the purpose of the ERC program is to change the "culture" of engineering education and research, it is expected that the ERC sarellite symposium will be attended by representatives of large and small universities and will provide a forum to implement this change.