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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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Ms.
Thompson's career at the National Science Foundation spans
twenty-nine years of service. This experience includes
assignments in the NSF Congressional Liaison Office, the Office
of the Assistant Director for Scientific, Technological, and
International Affairs, the Division of International Programs,
and currently, the Foundation's Office of International Science
and Engineering. Her management responsibilities for cooperative
research activities with Central and Eastern Europe
(1986-present) span a time of political and economic change and
require flexible regional program models as well as coordination
with the Department of State and the NATO Science Program. Ms.
Thompson earned a BA (History, Political Science) from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University and studied European
political systems at the University of Amsterdam as an
undergraduate.