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 Ingredient #3: A
"Win-Win" Situation
At URI, faculty from engineering and languages
consider themselves close colleagues today, and are
equally proud of the program which has evolved.
Underlying this happy union is the fact that the IEP
has become a fact of life at URI to the benefit of
all parties. The IEP is a drawing card for both
languages and engineering at URI. All faculty are
equally aware of the fact that the distinctive IEP
curriculum is often the factor that makes the
difference as good students choose URI over other
institutions. Bright young students interested in
engineering are inevitably accepted by five or six
schools, all of which can provide a good engineering
education. Many of these excellent students select
URI, however, because URI offers the opportunity to
study a language and culture alongside engineering,
and to do an internship with a company abroad.
Both language and engineering faculty have
"profited" from their common program. Just
as engineering faculty now often find larger numbers
of brighter and stronger students in their
classrooms, so too do language faculty. In a time
when German enrollments have languished at colleges
and universities throughout the United States, the
German program at URI has grown, and now boasts more
undergraduate majors than practically any other
institution in the country.
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