Enjoy your summer in Korea while participating in cutting-edge research projects! This IRES Site program aims to provide 8-week long international summer research experiences in Korea. Our IRES site program aims at providing frontier research experiences in the development of low-dimensional materials for transducers (LDM4T) at university laboratories in Korea. Our site activities are structured to provide interdisciplinary research experiences in a global setting so students can contextualize research findings in real-world applications. You will work with one of six foreign faculty mentors at one of four different universities to learn about transducer technologies by utilizing newly developed nanoscale materials.

This program is designed to expose the cohort students to global research in different cultural environments and equip them with a broader range of skills to stimulate their professional development. Your competencies will be nurtured in the area of leadership, communication, and self-awareness in order for you to be successful in your future careers in academia, corporate, or government sectors.

The disruptions in a global supply chain created by the pandemic have impacted almost everyone's daily lives in the U. S. and beyond. One notable example is the "semiconductor chip shortage". The chips process data and enable autonomous operations of various consumer products, in many cases, without direct human interventions. In order to enhance the manufacturing capability and capacity to address the current challenges, it is imperative to educate the next generation engineers with the global perspective and competitiveness in this technical domain. Among those semiconductor chip devices, a collection of devices that convert one energy form to another is called transducers. They play a crucial role in translating physical events into electrical signals that computers can process.