5th International Colloquium: What

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What:

The purpose of the Rhode Island colloquium is to provide engineering and language educators, international program administrators, deans, provosts, presidents, corporate leaders, as well as public sector representatives a forum for discussing and sharing ideas and practices pertaining to the education of American engineers for today's global workplace.

The colloquium was founded five years ago by the faculty of the University of Rhode Island's International Engineering Program with the support of a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE). With significant growth in attendance each year and the enthusiastic encouragement of colleagues from many other institutions and both corporate and public sector support, a one-time event has now evolved into an annual conference. The topic of preparing young engineers to work across cultures and languages has become very timely in this age of globalization.

We hope you will join us this year for the October 24-27 meeting.

Last Updated: 01/08/2003

The International Engineering Program is a dual-degree program combining a B.A. in German, French and/or Spanish with a B.S. in one of the engineering disciplines. IEP students study language and culture each semester along with their engineering curriculum. In the fourth year of the five-year program, they then go abroad as interns with engineering based firms in Europe or Latin America, and also as exchange students with one of our partner universities