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Session 2002-2045

Double-Degree Programs in International Education

James M. Cunningham Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and D. Joseph Mook S.U.N.Y at Buffalo

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Using the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3), American universities can create double diploma undergraduate programs, and two-tiered bachelor/masters degree opportunities through independent, tuition-waived, exchange agreements. Recruitment, scholarship, articulation, and accreditation components of a healthy international exchange program are addressed in this presentation. Multi-national corporations reward students who validate their global engineering education by earning degrees from universities in other cultures, in other languages.

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The number of engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY-B) who are involved in international academic exchanges, incoming and outgoing, has doubled over the last five years. And there are good reasons for this surging interest in studying engineering subjects abroad. First among them is student enthusiasm, enthusiasm resulting from their educational experiences in Europe or Oceania mixed with their American engineering curricula. “Without my masters degree from ENAC in Toulouse, it is unlikely that I would be working with an International Space Station contractor, as I am now,” writes Solie Marriott, a 2000/01 graduate of ERAU and ENAC. But, for Solei to clear all of the exchange hurdles successfully, considerable attention had to be paid to preparation, articulation and politics.

If a multiple degree programs are to be successfully coordinated, both institutions must bear an equal share of the exchange burden; refinements to each agreement need to be made on an annual basis and must reflect changes in institutional policies, fluctuations in available resources, and, occasionally, responses to unsatisfactory student treatment or performance. The more flexible the initial protocol the more likely the accreditation and administrative hurdles can be cleared, year after year, as each institution evolves its curricula to meet its own national needs.

ERAU has three principle designs for delivering double diplomas within their exchange programs. Processed through the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3), through bilateral undergraduate agreements, and through combination

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Cunningham, J., & Mook, D. J. (2002, June), Double Degree Programs In International Education Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10681