The International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island

Summary form only as given. Through the cooperative efforts of engineering and foreign language faculty, the University of Rhode Island (USA) offers a five-year International Engineering Program (IEP), which leads simultaneously to both the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in German and the Bachelor of Science degree in one of the engineering disciplines. Key features of the IEP include separate sections of German language courses specially designed for engineering students, a six-month internship with an engineering firm in a German-speaking country, an optional study abroad semester or year at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig and a capstone engineering course taught in German by bilingual engineering faculty. In many cases, IEP students also complete internships with IEP partner companies in the Rhode Island area before commencing the European internship experience in the fourth year of the program. Now in its ninth year, the IEP has placed over sixty students in six-month internships in Germany, and has graduated approximately fifty students. A parallel program in French is now also under development.