Workshop on Fundamental Research for National Competitiveness; Ann Arbor, Michigan; October 1991

将举行一次讲习班，以确定如何将制造过程和设备领域的学术研究集中于解决国家竞争力问题。约35名参加者将获邀出席研讨会。他们将来自工业界、活跃的学术界和政府，这三个领域的代表人数大致相等。在这个国家明显失去与主要贸易伙伴竞争能力的时期，召集社会各阶层共同解决这个问题是很重要的。这样做的必要性是基于这样一个概念，即我们的工业基础设施不断受到侵蚀，威胁到我们的生活方式。

A workshop is to be held to determine how academic research in the area of manufacturing processes and equipment can be focussed to address issues of national competitiveness. About 35 participants will be invited to attend this workshop. They will be from industry, the active community in academia and the government, with approximately equal representation from the three segments. In a time period when the nation is clearly losing it's ability to compete with it's major trading partners, it is important to bring together various segments of society to jointly address the issue. The need for this is based on the concept that a continued erosion of our industrial infrastructure threatens our way of life.