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

普渡大学已提议在华盛顿特区举办2008年国际工程研究与教育会议。 日期是2008年5月2日至3日。 提案中没有给出会议地点，但在另一封电子邮件中，PI的助理Yating Chang博士表示，凯悦酒店杜莱将是选定的会议地点;见随附的电子邮件。IREE会议将由2007年IREE计划资助的早期职业教师，本科生和研究生以及博士后研究员参加。 IREE计划由ENG/EEC于2006年发起，旨在为工程局现有部门的当前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能够获得国际研究经验和视角。此外，通过与自我支持的外国同行合作，扩大由ENG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年举行的为期三天的会议上，2006财政年度获得资助的IREE赠款者探讨了国际研究合作以及国际研究经验对其研究质量和研究人员技术能力的影响。 大多数（如果不是全部）与会者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向未来的受资助者提供最佳实践。 2006年的受赠者，2007年会议的参与者，认为他们已经解决了一些问题，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定向计划。 他们还建议将会议时间减少到1.5-2天，与周末重叠。 目前的提案涉及2007财政年度资助的受赠方2008年会议，是对2007年会议与会者建议的回应。 这个建议的PI，教授丹·赫尔曼，是一位备受推崇的教师和研究人员。他是普渡大学机械工程学院的院长，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.