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Jan Helge Bøhn
 

Jan Helge Bøhn

Dr. Jan Helge Bøhn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director of the Virginia Tech Computer Aided Design Laboratory; Program Lead for the Automotive Engineering Program at Virginia Tech, India; and principal investigator for PACE at Virginia Tech, the NSF REU dual site at Virginia Tech and Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the FIPSE ATLANTIS Dual BSME degree consortium with TU Darmstadt and Royal Institute of Technology.

Professor Bøhn is co-PI for Global-HUB, a NSF Engineering Virtual Organization; and team-teaches a course on global collaborative engineering design at Virginia Tech, TU Darmstadt, Howard University, ITESM Monterrey, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Dr. Bøhn has a B.S. in Computer Science, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Prior employments include the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Philips Laboratories, Sun Microsystems, and General Electric Corporate Research & Development.

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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