Award Abstract #0729792
IRES: U.S.-France Cooperative Research in Engineering Innovative Software Systems with Applications to Maritime Transportation Logistics

NSF Org:	OISE Office of International Science and Engineering
Initial Amendment Date:	September 5, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	September 5, 2007
Award Number:	0729792
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl OISE Office of International Science and Engineering O/D OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Start Date:	September 1, 2007
Expires:	August 31, 2010 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$149964
Investigator(s):	Srinivasan Ramaswamy srini@ualr.edu (Principal Investigator) Mariofanna Milanova (Co-Principal Investigator) Mihail Tudoreanu (Co-Principal Investigator) Remzi Seker (Co-Principal Investigator) Kenji Yoshigoe (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of Arkansas Little Rock 2801 South University little rock, AR 72204 501/569-8474
NSF Program(s):	ITR-CYBERTRUST, COMPUTING PROCESSES & ARTIFACT, EAPSI
Field Application(s):	0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 7639, 5980, 5918, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7456, 7352, 7316

ABSTRACT

0729792

Ramaswamy

This International Research Experiences for Students project will support U.S. undergraduate students from the University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR) who will conduct research at the Institut National de Sciences Appliquees de Rouen (INSA) in France. The U.S. team will partner with The Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systemes laboratory at INSA-Rouen directed by Roger Goglu. The proposal will fund eight U.S. undergraduate students per year to spend six weeks in Rouen over a three-year-period. Students will research software systems with applications to maritime transportation logistics. These systems will resemble real-world applications by stressing on a multi-disciplinary research to bridge discipline-specific theoretical research issues with real-world practice. Students will take part in pre-visit activities, such as a discussion course where they will formulate research questions, identify specific resources they will need to answer those questions, and develop active learning techniques for critical learning and comprehension. After the research visit to INSA, the students will present their research project to their peers at UALR and compile their results into a scientific paper for appropriate dissemination. Faculty members from UALR plan to visit Rouen to strengthen ties and facilitate collaborative research projects: one faculty member will go with the students during the beginning of the trip to ensure their orientation and adjustment to the new environment; the other will go towards the end of their research activities.

This project is co-funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

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