Submission + - China (washington.edu)
mounce writes: "Richard McCormack of Manufacturing News[1] reports that a professor of aeronautics engineering at the University of Michigan[2] says his university is engaged in transferring sensitive military technologies to China and that the practice is encouraged by the university's faculty and administrators. "We are transferring every bit of knowledge and knowhow that we have to the People's Republic of China," says tenured aeronautics engineering professor William Kauffman.[3] "This has been happening for at least a decade. It is done by having many of [China's] undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, who pay out-of-state tuition, here in Ann Arbor and having University of Michigan campuses staffed by University of Michigan faculty in the PRC." The University of Michigan isn't happy with Kauffman and his claims. It has had him arrested by campus police; it has tried to revoke his tenure; and it has cancelled all of his classes that he teaches on explosives, internal combustion engines, gas turbine engines, rockets and propellants. He says the university's dean, provost, president and his department chair have placed him in "Siberia," but that he can no longer sit idly by and watch as the university opens campuses in China, allows faculty engaged in Defense Department research to meet with delegations of Chinese defense researchers, and ignores the plight of Michigan's industrial economy and its blue-collar workforce.
[1] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/index.html
[2] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/index.html
[3] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/ka uffman/"
[1] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/index.html
[2] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/index.html
[3] http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/k
