Dual Degree Master's Program for
the Engineering Disciplines:
Master
of Science / Diplom
Engineering
students from the University of Rhode Island and the
Technische
Universität Braunschweig may earn two graduate-level degrees simultaneously:
- The Masters of Science at the University of Rhode Island
- The Diplom at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
The University
of Rhode Island and the Technische Universität Braunschweig, one
of Germany's foremost engineering educational institutions, have
completed and signed an agreement enabling advanced students in
engineering at these two universities to complete approximately
one year of their studies abroad and to be awarded both the American
masters degree and the German Diplom.
Under this
plan the University of Rhode Island masters degree students in engineering
complete the first full year, or approximately one half of the masters
program, in Rhode Island, and then spend the second year of the
program as a full-time student at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
in central Germany. German students from Braunschweig come to Rhode
Island as full-time students after completing studies through at
least the eighth semester, or at the point when they are within
one year of attaining their Braunschweig degree. In both cases,
the year of study abroad, which is comprised of course and thesis
work, is closely coordinated by faculty at both institutions. All
work completed satisfactorily abroad is recognized by both the host
and home universities, thus enabling students to complete degree
requirements in Germany and Rhode Island.
The Dual Degree Program
is kindly supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal
Republic of Germany with funds of the European Recovery Program
of the Federal Ministry of Economis and Technology (BMWi),
and by a number of its corporate partners. This will
make significant scholarship support
available to qualified students beginning in the fall
semester 2004.
Requirements
for acceptance into the Dual Degree Program include:
- Completion of the Bachelor of Science in one of the engineering
disciplines, or its equivalent.
- Acceptance to the graduate program of the appropriate department
in the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering.
- Proficiency in German sufficient to carry out a course of study
in Germany - or - submission of a plan to attain such proficiency
by the time of departure for Germany.
- Approval by the faculty committee overseeing the URI/Braunschweig
Exchange.
For further
information contact:
Professor
John M. Grandin, Director
International Engineering Program
Department of Languages
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02811
tel: 401-874-4283
fax: 401-874-4694
e-mail: grandin@uri.edu
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