Georgia Tech is scheduled to add a resource center in addition to engineering research laboratories at the campus in France to commemorate its 20th anniversary in the country. Tech and French officials have signed an agreement to create the Lafayette Institute at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz. This new addition is expected to be the “forefront of global engineering education and research,” according to Tech officials in a news release.
“By providing our industrial partners and academic research laboratories access to state-of-the-art facilities, we will be creating an environment where solutions to global challenges, ranging from energy to medical technology, can be developed,” said Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “This Institute also underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to expand our global partnerships.”
French authorities will finance 23 million euros, roughly $31 million in American money, to create the Lafayette Institute. The institute will provide access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities for optoelectronics, technology transfer and commercialization services. It will focus on technologies at the intersection of materials, optics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology.
Georgia Tech has celebrated the 20th anniversary of Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France and Atlanta throughout 2010.
For more information on the expansion, visit http://www.global.gatech.edu/france-atlanta/.
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