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Mexico Engineering Study Abroad

其他書名	Assessing the Effectiveness of International Experiences on Teaching Global Engineering Skills
出版	Brigham Young University. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LhRJQwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Globalization is a rapidly increasing trend in many industries, including civil engineering. This paper defines the skills engineers will need in an increasingly international industry. It also describes an engineering study abroad program designed to teach some of those skills to students and presents a survey used as an assessment tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The program, called Mexico Engineering Study Abroad (MESA), is taught at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, UT. MESA is a project-based extended field trip format class that couples hydrologic modeling with cultural awareness as students work together with Mexican students on water resources modeling projects in Mexico. The aforementioned survey shows that MESA affects a positive change in the student development and importance of global engineering skills such as leadership, teamwork, cultural sensitivity, and language. The importance of these skills in the workplace was also measured.