International Education Programs collection

The Hindustan Steel Training Project was a collaboration between the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the U.S. government in which seven University staff and faculty spent two years in India establishing personnel-training programs for Indian steel mills. The project was conducted for Hindustan Steel, Ltd., India’s government-owned steel corporation, and was funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The program grew out of the IN STEP program,, under which CIT had previously trained 600 Indian engineers in the U.S. in steel production and management methods. Stephen Blickenstaff, who directed IN STEP, led the new project at the request of the Indian government.

The Kabul Afghan-American Program (1963-1973) was a university consortium that helped develop the engineering school at the University of Kabul, Afghanistan, from 1963 to 1973. Founded in 1963, the program was a collaboration of 11 American universities and Educational Services Inc. (ESI) for the Royal Government of Afghanistan, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Its mission was to develop curricula and teaching methods and establish research laboratories. The participating universities in fall 1963 included Carnegie Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Lehigh University, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Purdue University, Rice University, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Cincinnati, University of Notre Dame, and Washington University. As part of the program, the Kabul Participant Training Program enrolled University of Kabul faculty for training at the consortium institutions, preparing them to advance engineering education in Afghanistan.

The Kanpur Indo-American Program (1962–1972) was a cooperative initiative that supported the development of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur). The program was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and administered by Educational Services Incorporated, with academic support provided by a consortium of nine American universities: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Purdue University. Through KIAP, the consortium assisted in establishing IIT Kanpur’s academic programs and research laboratories. The institute developed departments in aeronautical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, and metallurgical engineering, as well as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the humanities and social sciences. The program provided training opportunities for IIT Kanpur faculty at consortium universities and funding for equipment, materials, and library resources.