REU Site: Collaborative International Automotive Engineering in Germany and the USA

该计划是在弗吉尼亚理工大学（VT）和达姆施塔特工业大学（TUD）德国成功的国际本科生研究经验（REU）网站的延续，题为“在德国和美国的国际汽车工程合作”。 这个REU计划的统一主题是汽车技术。汽车技术为学习研究提供了一个有吸引力的优秀领域，因为它对日常生活的重要性，它通常涉及许多领域的广泛整合，包括机械工程，机电一体化，计算机科学和协同工程。该计划将利用VT和TUD之间强大的，持续的合作伙伴关系，包括联合研究，团队教学课程，BSME高年级海外课程，以及双BSME和双MSME学位课程，为REU学生提供展示工程专业全球化和协作工程重要性的第一手经验。该计划还将为美国行业和政府机构提供具有国际竞争力，全球参与，适应和经验丰富的海外运营的未来员工，并为预测模型的开发提供数据，该模型最适合个别学生最有效的全球曝光模式，为了未来的国际REU项目的利益。在这个为期10周的暑期项目中，来自研究有限或没有研究和国际机会的机构的学生将有机会在VT或TUD进行全球工程研究。该计划还将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他们的REU学生合作，从事联合跨大西洋研究项目，以及REU学生将他们的研究从VT一个夏天过渡到TUD随后的夏天。除了他们的研究，并促进跨大西洋队列的经验，学生参加每周一次的研讨会系列侧重于最佳研究实践，道德，文化差异和全球化。 学生将利用globalHUB（NSF工程虚拟组织）中的培训资源。在夏季结束时，学生们将通过两个REU地点之间的现场双向视频在会议上展示他们的作品。一个重点将放在从事REU学生和他们的家乡机构顾问，在他们回国后，增加他们的研究活动所产生的出版物的合著，和2）他们的研究生学习的追求。

This program is a continuation of a successful international Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site entitled, "Collaborative International Automotive Engineering in Germany and the USA" at Virginia Tech (VT) and Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (TUD) Germany. The unifying theme for this REU program is automotive technologies. Automotive technology provides an attractive and excellent area for learning about research because of its importance to everyday life and it often involves the broad integration of many fields, including mechanical engineering, mechatronics, computer science, and collaborative engineering. This program will leverage a strong, ongoing partnership between VT and TUD 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 program 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.During this 10-week summer program diverse and talented cohorts of undergraduates, from institutions with limited or no research and international opportunities will be provided with the opportunity to practice global engineering research at either VT or TUD. This program will also 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. In addition to their research, and to facilitate a transatlantic cohort experience, the students participate in a weekly seminar series focusing on best research practices, ethics, cultural differences, and globalization. The students will utilize training resources in globalHUB, an NSF Engineering Virtual Organization. At the end of the summer, the students will present their work at a conference via live-two-way video between the two REU locations. An emphasis will be placed on engaging the REU students and their home institution advisors, upon their return home, to increase their co-authorship of publications resulting from their research activities, and 2) their pursuit of graduate studies.