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Rhode Island, International Engineering Program.
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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
universities |
Dr. Urbain (Ben) J. DeWinter is Associate Provost
for International Programs and Professor of Modern
Foreign Languages and Literature at Boston
University. He has been a faculty member and
administrator at various institutions, including the
University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.
Working closely with faculty, staff and students, he
has developed international programs, exchanges and
partnerships worldwide and has chaired or
participated in many external reviews of education
abroad programs. He chaired the New York State Task
Force on International Education (1996-97), focusing
on education abroad, and served on the executive
committee of several international associations. Dr.
DeWinter completed an AB degree in History at
Georgetown University (with studies at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and a Ph.D. in
Romance Languages and Literatures at the University
of Pennsylvania.