Atlantis Project
A collaboration of three universities was set up for an exchange of graduate students to Europe and the United States of America. The program consisted of a three semester program where groups of students would circulate among the three universities to spend one semester on each location. The University of Miami (Florida, USA) as lead university and Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and the University of Napels-Frederico II (Napels, Italy) proposed an overseas collaborative study program with a newly introduced Transatlantic Master's degree on top of the original degree to be earn at the home university. Funding would be made available by the United States and European Governments for housing, transportation and study needs.

The program was created for beginning structural engineering and architectural graduate students. The three universities have a unique overlap in their focus on topics to cover the study course that lies exactly between the two disciplines of architecture and structural engineering. The center of attention of the study program would be in extreme loading conditions, like hurricane winds, earthquakes and flooding. The topographic coincidence placed the students in the high potential centers of these hazardous natural events. Goal of this program is to create globally orientated engineers and architects who will have the potential to step in a design and engineering process to make hazard resistant designs and structures.