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Engineering Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholar Grant |
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Deanna Lytle |
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Sep 21, 2003 |
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| Dr. Ioan Marinescu |
In January, one University of Toledo professor is heading to the land of Buddhist monks and temples as part of the Fulbright Program. Dr. Ioan Marinescu, professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the Asian Institute of Technology in Pathumthani, Thailand, for spring semester 2004.
He is one of about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Program during the 2003-04 academic year. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 in order to build understanding between people of the United States and different countries. Since then, more than 250,000 American and foreign university students and faculty, professionals, and elementary and high school teachers have taken part in the Fulbright Program.
Marinescu said he decided to apply for a Fulbright grant because “it is one of the possibilities to improve yourself professionally.” As part of the application process, he had to submit a paper on what he planned to do and invitations from institutions willing to host him. Marinescu chose Thailand because he has collaborated with people in the area and because “I like Thailand,” he said.
Marinescu was excited to learn he had received the Fulbright grant and has since been busy planning his visit to Thailand. He is preparing material for the nanotechnology class he will teach at the Asian Institute of Technology. Marinescu also is getting ready to lead a workshop for Thai companies on how to write a business plan for manufacturing. “The southeast Asia area is getting to be big with manufacturing,” he said.
After he is finished with his semester in Thailand, Marinescu plans to visit other countries as part of a sabbatical. He will spend two months in Singapore to work at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. Next, Marinescu plans on traveling to Tokyo to work at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research of Japan, where he is an eminent scientist.
Marinescu said he will recruit graduate students for the College of Engineering and the UT Precision Micro-Machining Center, which he founded and serves as its director. He will return to UT in September 2004.
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