REU Site: Automotive Technologies at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and Virginia Tech

这个为期三年的国际REU站点计划的重点是与机械工程、机电一体化、计算机科学、协同工程及其交叉领域相关的汽车技术。该项目将利用德国达姆施塔特工业大学（TUD）与弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学（VT）之间强有力的、持续的合作伙伴关系，包括联合研究、团队教学课程、BSME大四海外项目、双BSME和双msme学位课程，为REU学生提供展示工程专业全球化和合作工程重要性的第一手经验。REU的学生可以选择在一个夏天在VT进行研究，然后在第二年夏天在TUD继续这项工作。这个REU网站计划的主要目的是为学生提供在另一种顶级工程文化中实践全球工程研究的机会。第二个目的是加强和扩大跨大西洋教师和学生合作的界面，因为指导研究团队与从事跨大西洋联合研究项目的REU学生合作，并且REU学生将他们的研究从一个夏天的VT转移到下一个夏天的TUD。该REU网站项目将鼓励学生攻读研究生课程，并可能从事一般的研究工作，特别是通过攻读TUD和VT联合提供的双硕士学位。它还将为美国工业和政府机构提供未来的员工，这些员工具有国际竞争力，全球参与，熟悉和经验丰富的海外业务。并为未来国际REU项目的发展提供预测模型的数据，以最有效地匹配个人学生的全球接触模式。

This three-year international REU Site program is focused on automotive technologies related to the fields of mechanical engineering, mechatronics, computer science, collaborative engineering, and their intersections. This program will leverage a strong, ongoing partnership between the Technische Universitat Darmstadt (TUD), Germany and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) that includes joint research, team-teaching courses, BSME senior-year abroad programs, and dual-BSME and dual-MSME degree programs, to provide the REU students with firsthand experience demonstrating the globalization of the engineering profession and the importance of collaborative engineering. The REU students will have the option to conduct research at VT one summer, and then continue this work at TUD the following summer.The primary purpose of this REU Site program is to provide students with the opportunity to practice global engineering research in an alternative, top-flight engineering culture. The secondary purpose is to enhance and broaden the interface of the transatlantic faculty and student collaborations as the mentoring research teams collaborate with their REU students engaged in joint transatlantic research projects, and as the REU students transition their research from VT one summer to TUD the subsequent summer. This REU Site program will encourage students to pursue graduate studies and possibly research careers in general and in particular by pursuing a dual-MS degree jointly offered by the TUD and VT. It will also provide US industry and government agencies with future employees that are internationally competitive, globally engaged, and comfortable with and experienced at operating overseas, and contribute data towards the development of a predictive model that best matches an individual student with the most effective mode of global exposure, for the benefit of future international REU programs.