Work In Progress: Impacting Global Engineering Education for New College Graduates

Around the world, education institutions, governments and industry have a significant and entwined role in determining the value of a prepared new graduate. While industry is acutely aware of costs and issues to hire, train, develop, and retain needed technical talent, many future engineers do not assess their return on time, costs and experiences while in academia. It is learned methodologies and global skills greatly differentiating one technical candidate from another. With cooperation between the technology industry, government bodies and engineering institutions, innovative approaches, new learning methods and relationship practices have led to successes in outputting capable engineers to meet near future demands for talent. Experiences from developing university programs in China, Eastern Europe, India, Japan, North America, Russia and Western Europe, provide useful and creative approaches to improve the future of global technical talent