 Workshops
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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 23, and one post-conference workshop on
Sunday morning, October 26. The topics this year will be
Teaching Foreign Languages to Engineers, Teaching Cross-Cultural
Communication, and Getting Started: Building International
Engineering Programs.
The 2003 Pre-Conference Workshops will be held from 12:00 - 4:30 PM
on October 23 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 Damon Rarick and Walter von
Reinhart, University of Rhode Island, and Hartmut Rastalsky,
University of Michigan
- Workshop 02: Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication:
Offered by Bernd Widdig, MIT, and Nardina Alongi and Matthew West of The Language House,
Greenville, South Carolina
The 2003 Post-Conference Workshop will be held Sunday morning from 8:00 -
12:00 on October 26 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
Updated:
09/18/2003
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