Collaborative Research between General Motors Corporation and Iowa State University

通用汽车公司技术教育计划和爱荷华州立大学（ISU）的统计部门有一个合作伙伴关系，根据该合作伙伴关系，通用汽车（GM）的员工可以通过录像带从该部门定期学习课程，获得非论文的统计硕士学位。学位要求包括一个研究部分，结果是一篇正式的论文（创意部分）。通用汽车的学生将有共同的主要教授，通用汽车的统计学家和国际州立大学的统计学家。这项提案的目的是创造参观和互动的机会，帮助通用汽车的学生进行创造性的研究，并介绍国际滑联的教师研究行业感兴趣的问题。该项目将资助两种不同但相关的互动：1)ISU人员与转基因学生和联合专业教授进行实地考察；2)与转基因研究实验室的科学家进行合作研究。在1997年夏天，一名ISU统计学家将访问通用汽车的学生和联合专业教授，讨论公司的利益和合作领域，并确定创造性成分研究的适当主题。在1998年的夏天，这个人将再花一个月的时间与转基因科学家进行合作研究。1998年夏天，第二名教员将花两个月的时间进行访问和合作研究。作为访问转基因研究科学家的一部分，这些教员将为转基因统计学家和工程师举办有关现代统计方法的研讨会。这种拟议的互动将产生可发表的创意组件的主题，为国际滑联教职员工提供研究思路，并为实际行业问题提供解决方案。通过提议的互动，通用汽车学生的教育体验将大大增强。通用汽车的学生将接触到学术和工业研究方法。理想情况下，他们的创造性内容既可以回答通用汽车的特定问题，也可以为国际滑联的教职员工提出新的问题，这些问题可以作为个人研究和未来国际滑联研究生的后续主题。最终的结果将是知识在对行业实践很重要的方向上的进步。由于通用汽车的项目很可能将统计学和工程学结合起来，因此许多项目将成为ISU统计学和工程学教授聚集在一起的焦点。因此，ISU可能会在这个项目之后进行更多的合作研究。该GOALI项目由MPS多学科活动办公室（OMA）和数学科学司（DMS）联合支持。

The General Motors Corporation Technical Education Program and the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University (ISU) have a partnership under which General Motors (GM) employees can earn a non-thesis M.S. Degree in Statistics taking regular courses from the department via video tape. The degree requirements include a research component that results in a formal paper (creative component). Students from GM will have co-major professors, a statistician from GM and a statistician from ISU. The purpose of this proposal is to create opportunities for visits and interactions that will help the GM students with this creative component research and introduce ISU faculty to research problems of interest to industry. This project will fund interactions of two different but related types: 1) site visits by ISU personnel with GM students and co-major professors and 2) collaborative research with scientists at GM Research Labs. In the summer of 1997, one ISU statistician will visit GM students and co-major professors, discussing company interests and areas for collaboration, and identifying appropriate topics for creative component research. In the summer of 1998, this person will spend 1 additional month doing collaborative research with GM scientists. In the summer of 1998 a second faculty member will spend two months engaged in visits and collaborative research. As part of their visits with GM research scientists, these faculty members will give seminars for GM statisticians and engineers on modern statistical methods. This proposed interaction will produce topics for publishable creative components, research ideas for ISU faculty members and solutions for real industry problems. The educational experience of the students at GM will be greatly enhanced through the proposed interaction. The GM students will be exposed to both academic and industrial approaches to research. Ideally, their creative components will both answer a particular q uestion for GM and raise new questions for the ISU faculty members, that can serve as subsequent topics for both personal research and for that of future ISU graduate students. The end result will then be the advancement of knowledge in directions important to industry practice. Since the projects at GM will likely combine statistics and engineering, many will serve as focal points to bring together ISU faculty members from Statistics and Engineering. Additional collaborative research at ISU is thus likely to follow from this project. This GOALI project is jointly supported by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS).