Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

their progress, building theirsense of self efficacy, encouraging goal setting behavior and a commitment to remaincompetitive in a global economy.2 The rapid changes in new global economy suggest thenecessity to routinely upgrade existing engineering curricula to reflect these changes, andeven send students abroad to experience different cultures and changes in businessworld.3 All the research firmly believe that there is no doubt that new ever changingglobal economy and multi-culture concepts have become key elements in anyengineering curriculum. In addition to that successful experience of American highereducation could be a great asset to Chinese engineering curriculum developmente.3, 4Based on these literature reviews engineering curricula