Participating Universities

The IIE-GIRE Fellowship is open to all U.S. engineering graduate students studying at any graduate engineering program within the United States to spend 3 to 5 months abroad, conducting innovative research and creating ties between their home university and host institution.

The list below includes the participating institutions selected for the first cohort of the IIE-GIRE program and highlights the diversity of the home institutions of IIE-GIRE fellows as well as the institutions that have supported them during their time abroad. This list is meant to serve as an example – Prospective applicants can apply from any U.S. institution and propose any host institution, abroad.

Host Institutions:

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg
Amsterdam University Medical Center (AUMC)
Center for Information and Neural Networks, Osaka University
Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Kyoto University-Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Kyushu University
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Karnataka, India
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Technical University of Cambridge
Technical University of Denmark
Technische Universität Dresden
TU Delft
University of Amsterdam
University of Botswana
University of Cape Town
University of Glasgow
University of Lille
University of Melbourne
University of Zurich
University of Sydney

Home Institution:

Clemson University
Drexel University
Georgia Tech
Iowa State University
Lehigh University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Purdue University
Rowan University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Florida
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of New Hampshire
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Wisconsin Madison