Forming Collaborative Links Between Turkey And Us: International Workshop On Rapid Technologies

As part of a current NSF-CCLI (Course-Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement) grant project, an extra supplementary grant was given in late 2008 to organize an international workshop on Rapid Technologies. This workshop was held in late September 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. Over seventy academicians and researchers got together and presented the current trends in rapid manufacturing research, education and industry. In this two-day event, educational and technical papers were presented from American, European and Turkish scholars. Reflections of the first and second day have been received from each attendee with an oral interview, and exit survey has been collected to measure the success of the supplementary project and continuously improve the workshop if it is held in the upcoming years. This paper will report the organization of this workshop, and its over-all planning and findings.