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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 |
Gary
Downey is Professor of Science and Technology
Studies and affiliated faculty member in the
Department of Engineering Education at Virginia
Tech. He is also 2005-2006 Boeing Company Senior
Fellow in Engineering Education at the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering and was keynote lecturer on
the engineer as problem definer at the 7th World
Congress of Chemical Engineering at Glasgow,
Scotland. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S.
Lehigh U 1974) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. U
Chicago 1981), he is winner of Virginia Tech's 1997
Diggs Teaching Scholar Award for scholarship in
teaching, 2003 XCaliber Award for instructional
technology, and 2004 William E. Wine Award for
career excellence in teaching. He is author of
The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among
Computer Engineers (Routledge 1998) and
co-developer of Engineering Cultures Multimedia
Courseware.