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FAQs concerning Educational & Instructional issues
Q: I teach a university graduate course on design and manufacture of very high-speed integrated circuitry. Many of the students are foreigners. Do I need a license to teach this course?
A: No. Release of information by instruction in catalog courses and associated teaching laboratories of academic institutions is not subject to the EAR (§734.9 of this part).
Q: Would it make any difference if some of the students were from countries to which export licenses are required?
A: No.
Q: Would it make any difference if I talk about recent and as yet unpublished results from my laboratory research?
A: No.
Q: Even if that research is funded by the Government?
A: Even then you do not need a license, but you would not be released from any separate obligations you have accepted in your grant or contract.
Q: Would it make any difference if I were teaching at a foreign university?
A: No.
Q: We teach proprietary courses on design and manufacture of high-performance machine tools. Is the instruction in our classes subject to the EAR?
A: Yes. That instruction would not qualify as "release of educational information" under §734.9 of this part because your proprietary business does not qualify as an "academic institution" within the meaning of §734.9 of this part. Conceivably, however, the instruction might qualify as "release at an open seminar, or other open gathering" under §734.7(a) of this part. The conditions for qualification of such a seminar or gathering as "open", including a fee "reasonably related to costs (of the conference, not of producing the data) and reflecting an intention that all interested and technically qualified persons be able to attend," would have to be satisfied. |
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