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Kathryn Sullivan Director of the Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE) National Science Foundation	Back \| Main \| Next
Kathryn Sullivan was appointed Acting Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE) in February 2005. She has served as Deputy Director of OISE since August 2003. Ms. Sullivan has over sixteen years experience in international science, engineering and technology programs and policy. Prior to joining NSF she was Acting Director of the Office of International Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. She has held a number of positions within the U.S government including: Special Assistant for International Affairs in the Office of the Vice President; Senior Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Program Director of International Affairs in the Deputy Secretary of Commerce's Office of Space Commerce; and Assistant for Non-Proliferation to the Assistant Secretary in the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration. Ms. Sullivan established NASA's Japan Office and served as the first NASA Representative at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. She holds a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor's from Wellesley College.

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