Conference Session

IFEES: The Globalization of Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Claudio Borri, Universita' di Firenze; Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Bruno Laporte, World Bank; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie; Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Jose Carlos Quadrado; Adriana Garboan, Politechnica University of Bucharest; Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

ASEE Global Programs

will require some post-secondary education7 .Competitiveness will increasingly depend on the capacity to tap into global pools of knowledgeand leverage the best human resources available in the world. The explosion of knowledge,coupled with the global movement of ideas, makes it impossible to fully anticipate the nature offuture innovations. It remains that countries that will derive the most from globalization will bethose in which the systems of education, business, and government can cooperate to educate,train, and put to work their human capital.6 According to the IMF 2007 World Economic Outlook, the effective global labor force has risen four folds over thepast two decades, reflecting population growth and the integration of China, India