Two Georgia Tech schools have formed partnerships with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, where President Wayne Clough was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university on Dec. 6.

The School of Industrial and Systems Engineering formed a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in October to establish a Sino-U.S. Global Logistics Institute.
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering established a dual master's degree program with the university in December. The partnership allows students admitted to the two-year program to study at either SJTU or Georgia Tech's campus. It establishes a summer exchange program for students attending Tech and SJTU.

ISyE's Global Logistics Institute with SJTU is modeled after The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, a partnership between Tech and the National University of Singapore.

"The focus of the Institute will be the Shanghai region of China," said Chelsea C. White, the H. Milton and Carolyn Stewart chair of Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

White and Charles Liotta, vice president of research and dean of graduate studies, were joined by Georgia economic development officials at the ceremony inaugurating the program with SJTU in October.

"The programs being developed in Shanghai and Singapore are part of an overall strategy to foster Georgia Tech's evolution toward an international technological university that encourages its students to experience cultures from around the world while pursuing their disciplines," Liotta said.

During the next few years, Tech may expand its dual-degree partnership program modeled after TLI-Asia Pacific with some other top universities, he said.
Students completing an 18-month TLI-Asia Pacific program earn dual master's degrees from Georgia Tech and NUS.

"Our program has been a wonderful laboratory for Georgia Tech in developing a model for how to have a partnership with an Asian university. Georgia Tech is a sought after partner because of our reputation and rankings. We want to continue to expand our global partnerships with other world-class universities like NUS," said Harvey M. Donaldson, director of The Logistics Institute.

Robert de Souza, executive director of TLI-Asia Pacific, said students spend the fall semester, which begins in August, studying at NUS and in January study for a semester on the Tech campus.

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