Engineering Cultures® Online 2.0

Engineering Cultures® Online 2.0 consists of multimedia modules that explore what it means to be an engineer in different countries. These interesting modules include essential contents from the highly popular course that Gary Downey and Juan Lucena developed at Virginia Tech and Colorado School of Mines.

Viewing one or more of these modules can help you take the first step toward the achievement of global competency. Downey, Lucena, and colleagues define global competency as "having the knowledge, ability, and predisposition to work effectively with people who define problems differently than you do" ("The Globally Competent Engineer," Journal of Engineering Education).

Each country-based module addresses four questions:

How did the nation state emerge and what has counted as 'progress' or 'advancement'?
How have engineers emerged, what has it meant to be an engineer, and what sorts of knowledge have engineers valued?
What counts as a typical career trajectory, including education and worklife?
What trends are emerging in response to the new emphasis on industrial competitiveness?
Virginia Tech awarded Engineering Cultures Online its prestigious XCaliber Award for innovative scholarship in teaching with technology.

See more at http://globalhub.org/resources/11

Category:

Education

Tags:

• global engineering
• engineering cultures
• engineering
• cultures
• globalhub
• gary downey
• juan lucena
• usa
• britain
• russia
• japan
• france