The Successful Integration of Study Abroad and an Engineering Curriculum

This paper describes the collaboration between a university in Bremen, Germany, and the Engineering Division of a Liberal Arts and Engineering College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The partnership is in its sixth year and has provided more than one-hundred engineering undergraduates with a semester-long immersion in a foreign culture. These students complete a semester´s studies in their engineering major, travel extensively, and live and work in an international setting. The paper describes the structure, successes, and the challenges experienced with the program, and presents summary evaluative responses from students participating in this partnership.