Back on the traveling classroom bus again this Saturday morning. A weekend class in China! We are heading to Suzhou Industrial Park, a planned cooperative business endeavor between Singapore and China. SIP is dedicated to developing innovative new technology to advance China's economy.

Shanghai is teeming with people, 32 million of them. On the roads they drive at a frenetic pace. Do the math! Here are the pluses and minuses for the CSU/OSM traveling classroom! We get to see the endless multitude of high rise apartment buildings which house a good portion of Shanghai and the ever present shops interspersed with large shopping malls. Lots and lots of residents driving and shopping! If the "plus" is experiencing how the natives live, the minus ...

Another China WOW! Yangshan Port is the largest shipping port in the world based on the volume of containers imported and exported! Located on an off-shore island in the East China Sea, this port handled more than 30 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in the past year (as reported by Shanghai Daily). Driving on the highway to the port (island) we travelled over a 32 kilometer bridge, the longest bridge over sea water in the world! The size of things we've s...

Exploring the assembly line laboratory at the university.

Dr. Tukel's classroom keeps rolling along. Next stop is Shanghai Dianji University. SDJU is a public university whose key speciality is engineering. Supply Chain Management also is a strong major. SDJU is engaged is formal discussion with Cleveland State University to develop a student exchange program between the universities. We were delighted to catch up with Dr. Zhang Xiaohong, a professor at SDJU who spent last year as a visiting professor at Cleveland State...