Colleagues -
Western Illinois University is currently participating in developing a multi-
year collaborative education project focusing on green manufacturing and supply
chain management. This will be a proposal to the North American Mobility Grant
Program, funded by the governments of the US, Mexico and Canada. It will
involve at least two universities from each of the three nations. The US and
Mexican partners appear to be set, but it turns out that one of the project's
prospective Canadian partners will be unable to participate, and so we are
looking for another Canadian school to join the project. We are particularly
interested in a school that has business faculty with such an interest, and
also has faculty in either Engineering, Chemistry or, _especially_, Design who
have an interest in sustainable product design and its relationship to green
manufacturing and clean production.
If you are at such an institution, or have suggestions for someone with such
interests to contact at your or another university, please contact me at GP-
Rands@wiu.edu or by phone at 309-255-1735 (cell). Alternatively, you can call
Jocelyne Landry at Universite de Moncton (506-866-3271) or Carol Fimmen at
Western Illinois University (309-298-2924) for questions about administrative
aspects of the program.
North American Mobility projects are funded for a 4 year period: a planning
year and three years of delivery of educational programs. These programs must
involve at least some student exchanges between partner institutions, on a
semester long basis and/or a travel-study basis. It is anticipated that this
project will also include student internships. WIU has participated in a
number of North American Mobility programs, and students and faculty involved
have benefitted greatly, including the establishment of networks that have
resulted in collaborative research.
Thanks!
Gordon Rands
Associate Professor of Management
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455