Professor Beck has brought several international researchers into his research group at Michigan State, resulting in several long-term collaborations and many friendships. The French group METTI, strongly supported by Jim Beck, was the result of a long collaboration between him and thermal engineering teams of several universities including Paris VI, Nantes, Lyon, Nancy, Poitiers, Marseille, etc. This collaboration started in 1982 and has continued ever since, prompting Jim Beck to come to France on several occasions to give talks and bring French researchers into his team at MSU. For this reason Jim Beck is very well known, appreciated, and respected in the French heat transfer community.