A Model International Engineering Exchange Program: MSU/RWTH-Aachen, and Kaiserslautern

该项目支持一个为期三年的计划。该程序可以 作为未来计划的模式，供 美国国家科学基金会（NSF）。 该项目包括一个 本科和研究生水平的国际工程 机械之间的交流和研究计划 密歇根大学工程与化学工程系 州立大学和技术大学 （Rheinisch Westfalische Hochschule（RWTH）in亚琛，德国 以及德国的凯撒巴登大学。 该项目支持国际工程交流 美国国家科学基金会（NSF） 在机械和化学方向的努力 工程. 这个项目是一个投资的机会 在升级一个既定的计划， 教学与研究之间的平衡 它超越了传统的纯研究或兴趣研究， 只有交流项目。 NSF支持一个三阶段的计划。 一期 涉及加强本科组成部分的一个 现有方案。 第二阶段鼓励和涉及短期 长期合作研究项目，将探讨和 建立长期、深入合作的基础 研究项目涉及密歇根州立大学和教师在亚琛和 皇帝陛下 成功的第二阶段项目将被用作 定期提交研究计划的基础 三.供资，将支持多年期全面 合作研究项目。 预计各国 德国各院校还将寻求其 这些努力的本地资金来源。 作为该项目的补充部分，该项目将 为启动开发提供部分支持， 实施一些德语授课的工程课程 在密歇根州立大学，和一些教师的支持， 并进一步发展这一计划。

This project supports a three year program. This program may serve as a model for future programs to be considered by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This project includes a of undergraduate and graduate level international engineering exchange and research program between the Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Departments at Michigan State University (MSU) and the technical universities (Rheinisch Westfalische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany and the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germay. The project supports an international engineering exchange program within the National Science Foundation- enhancing NSF efforts in the direction of mechanical and chemical engineering. This project represents an opportunity to invest in the up-grading of an established program with an unusually strong balance between instruction and research components that goes beyond the traditional research-only or intstuction- only exchange programs. NSF support is provided for a three-phase program. Phase I involves strengthening the undergraduate component of an existing program. Phase II encourages and involves short term collaborative research projects which will explore and develop the bases for long-term, in-depth collaborative research projects involving MSU and faculty at Aachen and Kaiserslautern. Successful Phase II projects will be used as the basis for submitting regular research proposals for Phase III funding which will support multi-year, full-scale collaborative research projects. It is anticipated that German academies will also seek appropriate support from their indigenous funding sources for these efforts. In a supplementary portion of this project, the program will provide partial support for initiating the development and implementation of a few engineering courses taught in German at Michigan State University, and some faculty support to administration and further develop this program.