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Workshops: Pre- and
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The faculty of the URI International Engineering Program, along
with several colleagues from other institutions, will sponsor two
pre-conference workshops beginning with lunch on Thursday afternoon,
October 24, and one post-conference workshop on Sunday morning,
October 27. The topics will be Teaching Foreign Languages to
Engineers, Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication, and Getting Started.
Pre-Conference Workshops will be held from 12:00 - 4:30 PM on October
24 in our conference hotel, the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, Rhode Island.
(Shuttle transportation from the airport to the hotel is also
provided.)
- Workshop 01: Teaching Foreign Languages to Engineering
Students: Offered by Dr. Damon Rarick and Dr. Walter von
Reinhart, University of Rhode Island
- Workshop 02: Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication:
Offered by Nardina Alongi and Matthew West of The Language House,
Greenville, South Carolina
Post-Conference Workshops will be held Sunday morning from 8:00 -
12:00 on October 27 in the conference hotel.
- Workshop 03: Getting Started: Building
International Engineering Programs:
Offered by experts from several institutions, with a focus on
- Networking at your home institution
- Finding funding
- Deciding on an appropriate model
- Building an internship program
- Finding partners abroad
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