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More →The purpose of the Rackham Grant for the Global Engagement of Doctoral Education is to encourage and assist graduate programs that seek to make global engagement a core part of doctoral education.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering aims to capitalize on our existing relations and establish long-term research and education collaborations with two institutions in Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi) and University of Ghana (Legon). One component of this multipronged effort is to provide financial and logistical support for up to 12 PhD students to conduct up to a two-month internship in Ghana between 2012-2023. We are currently accepting applications for 2023. The internships will provide ME doctoral students with the opportunity to identify new research projects and collaborators, gain intercultural competencies, and work with multidisciplinary professionals.
The benefits that ME students are expected to derive from the program include:
Must be a University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering graduate student.
Financial support will be provided to offset travel costs (e.g., flight, room and board, visa, local transportation). Priority will be given to applicants whose faculty advisor has committed to traveling to Ghana prior to or in parallel with the student applicant.
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Questions?
Email MEGhanaPhDinternship@umich.edu
For more information and to apply, please use this link.
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