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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
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Duane
L. Abata is the Dean of Engineering and Technology at Northern
Arizona University, in Flagstaff. Before his appointment as
Dean, he served in the Engineering Directorate at the National
Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. Prior to NSF, Dr. Abata
held numerous administrative positions in academia. A good
portion of his career was in the classroom as a tenured full
professor in the thermo-sciences, in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan
Technological University. Dr. Abata’s research is in the area of
high pressure transient ignition and combustion. He received his
Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in mechanical
engineering with minors in physics and chemistry. Dr. Abata is
the Immediate Past President of the American Society for
Engineering Education, ASEE, representing over four hundred
engineering institutions and a constituency of nearly twelve
thousand engineering and technology educators across the United
States and through Europe and Asia.