, regardless of their engineering concentration and lay theinitial work for future performance enhancements for the students, educators, and policymakersin the STEM areas.IntroductionBangladesh's engineering and technology sectors are expanding as the country's economydevelops. Despite the country's relatively low level of economic growth, its engineering studentshave achieved remarkable academic performance, becoming some of the world's most qualifiedengineers. Researchers have demonstrated that self-efficacy, or the positive attitudes individualshold about their skills to accomplish activities, influences how they operate in a particulardomain, such as mental health and others [1, 2]. Increasingly, research findings indicate thatpsychological and
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comfortable they felt about certain topics or situations on aLikert scale of 1-5. The content domains were then mapped and correlated to the dimensions ofglobal competence from the PISA framework, shown in Table 1.Table 1: Mapping Content Domains to Global Competency Dimensions from the PISA global competencyframework Q# Content Domain Dimension of Global Competence 1 Self-efficacy regarding global issues 1 2 Awareness of global issues 1 3 Perspective-taking 2 4 Respect for people from other
transformative shift in engineering education, prioritizingsustainability, cultural understanding, and social justice to equip engineers for a rapidly evolving,interconnected world [1].Contemporary insights into the competencies sought by European engineering firms highlightcritical deficiencies in recent graduates, including interpersonal communication, adaptability, andengineering self-efficacy [2]. Additionally, attributes such as emotionalintelligence—particularly empathy, as emphasized in design thinking—and cooperative skills areoften underdeveloped [2].Universities are addressing the challenges of fostering global competence by promotinginternational academic partnerships that encourage mobility for students, faculty, and staff.Traditional in
competence (IC), defined as "the complex abilities required to perform effectively and appropriately wheninteracting with others who are linguistically and culturally different from oneself" (Fantini, 2009, p. 458). IC has becomeessential for engineers’ success in the globalized world (CTI, 2022; Rico-García & Fielden Burns, 2020). As a result,fostering IC in engineering students has become a priority in engineering education (CTI, 2022; Weisser, 2015). Studyabroad is widely regarded as one of the most effective ways to enhance IC (e.g., Deardorff, 2006). Acquiring foreignlanguage skills and developing intercultural communicative competence are two key benefits of studying abroad (Guo,2015). Study abroad also boosts students’ self-efficacy
between two institutions/departments to jointly develop a long-term programabroad to emulate successful programs at the home institutions [2, 5]. One benefit of these 1programs is allowing students to be educated by faculty members from abroad in a cohesiveprogram designed for international students. Additionally, many of these programs allowstudents to visit or study at the program’s home institution, allowing for an improved experience.Students and faculty who are involved in these programs have gained a global perspective, self-efficacy, and cultural competency [6].While there are many benefits to developing an academic program abroad, multiple