Engineering China Summer Program

Engineering China Summer Program Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame

Academic Program

This program is held collaboratively with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The main location for the program will be at Tsinghua and its associated facilities in Beijing. The program will be approximately 7 weeks from mid-June through mid-August and students will receive 6 graded Notre Dame academic credits for their work. The program will consist of both course work and project work. For both components of the program, Notre Dame students and Tsinghua students will participate jointly and collaboratively, making the program a truly international experience and a good background for modern engineering of multinational scope.

For the project component of the program, teams of 4-6 students with approximately equal number of Notre Dame and Chinese students, will complete projects that are provided by and actively managed by multinational companies. Travel to the company's China location(s) for an overview of their operations and project status reports is typically part of the program. Such travel will typically be overnight and to locations outside of Beijing. Weekly project reports to the academic adviser for the program as well as the industrial sponsor is required as is a final project report.

For the coursework component of the program, a course that is required during the junior year of both the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs will be held at Tsinghua. For the initial few years of the program, the course will be conducted by an AME faculty member; however, as the program develops, this may transition to a course offered by Tsinghua.

Summer 2012

In the summer of 2012 a pilot program will be conducted with approximately four Notre Dame students. For this summer, the program will be entirely project-based work in collaboration with Chinese undergraduate students at Tshingua. Students will receive 6 academic credits for full participation in the program. The projects for the summer of 2012 will be provided and managed by Caterpillar and Timken.

Summer 2013+

In the summers of 2013 and beyond, the program will be comprised of three credits of project-based work on teams with Chinese students and three credits of coursework.

Program Contacts

Notre Dame Professor Bill Goodwine Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame 365B Fitzpatrick Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA goodwine@controls.ame.nd.edu Tel: 1-574-631-3283

Tsinghua Professor Yiming (Kevin) Rong, Ph. D Institute of Manufacturing Engineering Department of Precision Instruments Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084 P.R.China Tel.: 010-62794751（O）Cell phone number: 13472455756 yrong@tsinghua.edu.cn