Gilbert, Karen J.2013-05-062013-05-062004-03-03http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20803Companies get quite a bargain when they sponsor an international team of engineering students from Virginia Tech and Ecole des Mines de Nantes (EMN) to solve a technical problem. One team was "empowered" by a sponsoring company to invest $100,000 in heavy equipment to improve the production process, yielding an impressive three-year break-even point.text/htmlIn CopyrightPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations