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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 |
Each year, the IEP sponsors a two-week study tour to visit several of our
partner companies and universities in other countries. First- and
second-year IEP students are especially encouraged to participate in a
study-tour so that they may not only visit a country in which the language
they are learning is spoken but also tour a number of companies and
facilities where they might do their internships at a later time. In
addition, the study-tours allow students to become acquainted with the
foreign university where they might be studying for a semester and meet
exchange students preparing for their journey to the University of Rhode
Island. Usually, students will meet URI students already working for a
given company abroad or studying at the university on exchange, thus
allowing them to get a better picture of the global workplace.