The series is designed to expose U.S. business to research and technologies developed by some of Russia's finest research institutes in order that it may be commercialized. The series will be available in North America via C band satellite and subsequently throughout the world via video tape and Internet presentation.
Plans are to recruit groups of students to begin each Fall and move through the program as a group.
Recruiting for the first group has already started. Those interested may contact the CEE office now to indicate their interest. The course content follows closely the proven model presented for years by the College of Engineering in the traditional classroom mode and by Interactive Television to sites around the state. The course will be offered to students anywhere in the world in the weeks preceding the state examinations given in the United States and overseas twice each year. In the first weeks of the course, students quickly learned to use the personal computer to download and study lessons, ask questions of the faculty and learn from exchanges the other students had with the instructors.