Memo+19

1)Primary Research Sites 2)Secondary Research Sites
 * Field Sites**
 * Tsinghua University** is one of China's best universities of science and engineering. Its engineering education represents the cutting-edge in China. Every year, it recruits around 3,000 students with the best performance in the National College Entrance Exam, and a lot of its graduates find jobs in famous companies. It is also a school where companies actively sponsor labs, invite students for internships and give lectures or hold employ conference. In 2011, the university will celebrate its 100th anniversary. I graduated from this university, which gives me the convenience to contact the faculty and carry out ethnographic research there.
 * Stanford University and Silicon Valley** is a symbol of industry-university collaboration. There is also great mobility of personnel between companies and university. I plan to carry out my ethnographic interviews and participant observations in America here.
 * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute** is “...the first school of science and school of civil engineering, which has had a continuous existence, to be established in any English-speaking country”. As a graduate student in RPI, I also have much convenience to carry out study here.
 * Microsoft Research Asia** is a branch which actively interacts with universities. It has attracted a lot of excellent students for internship. It also has broad commercial cooperation with universities, faculty, and college students.
 * Shanghai Baosteel Corporation** is the biggest iron and steel corporation in China, it has more than 90,000 employees, and employs a lot of engineering students each year. I have worked there, and thus have the advantage of accessing people for interview.