BTA students:
If you are interested, please contact Dr. Jamie Gurganus jgurganus@umbc.edu. She will provide you the permission to enroll
Highlight your resume with an important needed skill set with an authentic engineering class capstone like experience. Work with Brazil, Germany & Portugal!
Credit Earned:
Elective in BTA
Grand Challenges Scholars Program
Entrepreneurship Minor Elective- This past Fall 2024 semester we had a team earn 2nd place in the Entrepreneurship Idea competition consisting of Engineering, HCC, computer science and IS majors!
Interested in working with a Peer from another country developing and solving global challenges with three other countries?? Employers are seeking individuals who understand and can work as global citizens. This important skill set is highlighted not only as a student outcome in ABET and highlighted in the World Economic forum, World Bank, UNESCO and more. This semester’s project will be focusing on developing appropriate technology for global poverty.
This Spring 2025, the Engineering and Computing Education Program will be offering ECEP 405: Global Engineering. As an award winning class and proven/published research class, this opportunity provides students an authentic engaging experience to work with peers from three other countries, synchronously, developing solutions to our global world using their engineering background. Germany, Brazil and Portugal universities will be joining us this semester.
If you are interested, please contact Dr. Jamie Gurganus jgurganus@umbc.edu. She will provide you the permission to enroll.
Class is offered IN PERSON (hyflex with the countries), 8:30-9:45 Tuesday and Thursday mornings in a hyflex classroom.
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Brief summary of the class:
Global Engineering will establish an inter- multi- and trans- disciplinary study and design of engineering technology, entrepreneurship, sustainability, social responsibility and the influence of global society and culture on problem-solving. The course will use explicit technological exercises exploring how different cultures meet the engineering objective (both their paths and final solutions may differ). Topics will include the global scope of engineering; differences in engineering around the world; cultural, environmental, sustainability, and political factors; conducting oneself in a foreign environment; and preparing for an international work/study experience and working on Multidisciplinary authentic projects. Guest speakers and instructors will present lessons learned in real global engineering cases, where both technical and cultural factors are integral. Using these experiences and research with their team, students work on authentic cases by practicing the appropriate application of engineering resources in diverse scenarios. Students are given scoped system outcomes and are expected to use discipline knowledge (to include management, design and computational approaches) to provide a comprehensive solution that includes economic, ethical and social implications. The students from four different institutions (UMBC, FEUP- Porto, HBRS- Germany, Maui -Brazil) will form multi-cultural teams to design and present their engineering solutions. By working remotely with colleagues at a foreign university, students will gain direct experience in cross-cultural collaboration, including joint research, writing, and giving professional and technical presentations.