UNIVERSITY TECH

Chinese Spying at American Universities

Michigan Professor Questions
University's Ties with China

A professor of aeronautics engineering at the University of Michigan 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 know how that we have to the People's Republic of China," MORE

China celebrates space docking success Read more

Joint Fuel Cell Research
between UM & SJTU

Read Article HERE

President Coleman Says She Does Not Have Time to Meet with National Security Officials

National security officials have met with the presidents of many of the top research universities in the United States to brief them on the dangers of
technology transfer to foreign students. President Mary Sue Coleman claims
she does not have time to meet with them. Read the FBI's report on "Higher Education and National Security" Read Article HERE

Who is in Charge of the University of Michigan's Participation in President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership?

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center last Friday, President Obama unveiled an Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) designed to reinvigorate the country’s manufacturing sector. The partnership between academics, business leaders, and science and technology agencies is intended to create jobs by helping US manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development.

Starting this summer, federal agencies will partner with industries to boost manufacturing in areas critical to our national security, according to Obama’s speech. Initial investments will go toward the development of small high-powered batteries, advanced composites, metal fabrication, biomanufacturing, and alternative energy sources.     MORE

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/24/president-obama-launches-advanced-manufacturing-partnership

However, UM’s program is led by Chinese Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Jack Hu along with his mostly Chinese graduate students and visiting scholars; Jingjing Li Hui John Wang Liang Zhou Sha Li
Zhiliang "Grace" Wu He "Herbert" Wang June Lu

This is a $500 million program to help American manufacturers retain their competitive edge over foreign manufacturers, in particular China but it is put in the hands of a Chinese professor and his Chinese graduate students. How can we expect them to keep America’s secrets?

University of Michigan’s Role in Transferring Anti-Satellite Weapons Technology

Dr. Daniel Scheeres studies how to rendezvous objects in space such as landing a spacecraft on an asteroid. However, the same technology can be used to shoot down a satellite or rendezvous a hunter killer satellite with a target satellite in orbit. MORE

UMass reaches deal to provide
on-line classes to Chinese
(is the FBI watching to see if they violate import/export laws?)
Read more

Chairman of the Univ. of Michigan Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Defects back to China

Professor Wei Shyy has studied Aerospace Engineering in the United States for more than 30 years. He became a naturalized American Citizen and he became the Chairman of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Last fall he returned to China to become the Provost of the Hong Kong Technical University. He takes with him a wealth of knowledge gained from working in industry and academia that will undoubtedly be valuable to the development of civilian and military aviation in China. His American citizenship gives him free entry into the United States and he continues to be a visiting professor at the U of M. MORE

The Unorthodox Hiring of Wei Shyy as Chair of Aerospace Engineering at UM

The traditional hiring practice for the position of Chairman of the Aerospace Engineering department had always included “town hall meeting” style gatherings of the entire faculty to meet and question the candidates. When that did not happen during the last search for Chairman, Professor Bill Kaufman wrote an email to the 3 finalist with a list of questions.
1.    Asks about how the candidate envisions his relationship with Dean of Engineering Stephen Director.
2.    Asks about the deficit of a half million dollars the Department has with the College of Engineering.
3.    Asks about the candidates "biggest contribution" to the advancement of flight.
4.    Asks what the most significant interaction the candidate has had with American industry (a great question for ivory tower elites).
5.    Asks about the role the Department plays in serving Michiganders (over non-residents) since U-M is a state public body.
6.    Asks about how the candidate would use his position to regain the 300,000 manufacturing jobs the State of Michigan has lost in the last three years.
7.    Asks whether undergraduates should be allowed to take certain advanced courses.
8.    Asks how the candidate thinks undergraduate curriculum should be balanced between the experimental and analytical.
9.    Asks what time committment the candidate expects to give.
10. Asks what the candidates views on plagiarism are.
11. Asks about the shortage of educational space.
12. Asks whether a "new faculty member should be hired solely on the basis of gender, or for that matter, ethnicity, race, or creed?"

When the Dean and Interim Chairman found out about the questions, the response was quick and full of threats of retaliation.

"... direct communication with these candidates at this point in the process is not authorized and can be deemed a disruption of on-going University business."
And
“…Do not send them any more email messages. Any additional contact that you have, not including research seminar and the scheduled reception of each candidate, will be considered to be harassment of the candidates, in my opinion. If you choose to ignore the above request, we will interpret you [sic] action as an attempt to destroy the department ...."

In the end, only selected faculty of the department had any input into the decision to hire Wei Shyy as the new department chair.

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Video #1: China Milks our Sacred Cows

Vince Wade produced this video, the first in a series. The topic here is the U.S. university role in transferring sensitive military and civilian technology to China. It supports the FBI’s conclusion that Chinese government espionage is a top worry

Video #2: FBI’s Mission Impossible

Tom Malik (Section Chief FBI counter intelligence section)
Years of focused, targeted, and deliberate collection efforts by the Peoples Liberation Army against our technological base has benefited their country.
Greg Stejskal (Ann Arbor FBI counter intelligence officer)
Chinese students are co-opted to acquire technology with military applications that has been developed at US taxpayers’ expense.

Ken Shiffer (Counter intelligence Instructor)

It is incumbent on us as a nation to identify specifically the research that we are trying to protect and to brief scientists as to how that information might be elicited from them.

Video #3: Taiwan May Determine Our Fate

Some of our Universities may be helping China to take Taiwan by force.
    - Cyber warfare
    - Sea launched ballistic missiles
    - Anti-satellite weapons

Video #4: Shaft our Nation

Corporate greed and the search for short term profits are traded for America’s trade secrets.

David Munson (Univ. of Michigan Dean of Engineering)
We work very closely with industry on research and development. We are being pushed by companies to globalize. We could build walls but that would only delay the inevitable.

Donald Bishop (Official of the US Embassy in China)

American taxpayers will foot most of the bill if Chinese students study in America.
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Michigan Professor Questions University's Ties with China