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International Engineering Program. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer.
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 |
John M. Grandin is professor of German
and director of the International Engineering Program at the
University of Rhode Island, a double-degree option leading
simultaneously to the BS in one of the engineering disciplines and
the BA with a major in German, French, or Spanish. Grandin has
competed successfully for several major grants supporting
international engineering efforts at the University of Rhode Island,
has published numerous articles on the subject, and is founder and
organizer of the Annual Colloquium on International Engineering
Education held in Rhode Island each fall. Grandin is a recipient of
the Federal Cross of Honor from the German government, the
Outstanding Educator Award from the American Association of Teachers
of German and the ABET Educational Innovation Award, all pertaining
to his efforts to internationalize engineering education. In a prior
life, Grandin authored several articles and a book on Franz Kafka.