The International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) was initiated in 2006 with the objective providing opportunities for early-career researchers in the U.S. to gain international research experience and perspective, and to enhance U.S. innovation in education and research through closer interaction between U.S. institutions and their foreign counterparts. IREE the supplemental funding mechanism to support medium duration visits of between three to six months by U.S. early career researchers to collaborating institutions/laboratories outside of the U.S.

The Grantees Conference was held in November 2007 at Purdue university for 2006 and 2007 Grantees for which the international experience occurred in 2007. The Conference provided a facilitated venue for the IREE awardees, both students and faculty, to share experiences and what they gained from their time abroad under IREE. The collective experiences and wisdom of the participants and conference organizers is embodied in the Proceedings of the 2007 NSF IREE Grantees Conference: Summary and Recommendations. The goal of these recommendations, as is the goal of the IREE program, is to enhance and improve the innovation and quality of the research funded by NSF by adding an international dimension.

The following presentations were given at the conference:

• Aung, Win
• Soyster, Allen L.
• Weber, Larry
• Vande Berg, Mick
• Frey, Dan, Foster, Chad, and Sudarsanam, Nandan
• Pearlman, Jon and Cooper, Rory
• Spencer, B.F.

Below are trip reports from the IREE awardees listed by the last name of the authors.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Edwin Daniel Hirleman; Yating (Chang) Haller (2009), "NSF IREE 2007 Grantees Conference," http://globalhub.org/resources/818.

1. education 7
2. global engineering 132
3. iree 2007 109
4. research 5
5. trip report 221