Leaders in a Global Environment
"Our vision of the future, especially when it comes to education, is for students to be able to enable, manage, and deploy innovation in multilingual, multicultural, and multinational distributed environments." -- Pradeep K. Khosla, Dean, College of Engineering
Global education is important to us, so much so, that it's woven into the fabric of our mission: "To provide students with the fundamental knowledge, interdisciplinary problem solving skills, societal and business awareness, and confidence required to excel in their chosen professions and be leaders in a global environment." The value we place on global education manifests itself in the opportunities we offer our students, such as engineering-specific study abroad and exchange programs; funding to travel abroad; an International Engineering minor; and a multicultural environment for enhancing the educational experience.
Leaders in a Global Environment
At the College of Engineering we value the importance of our students graduating as global citizens, equipped with the skills to innovate, communicate, and lead teams comprised of people from all over the world. Great innovators understand cultural differences and local market needs.
We strive to be leaders in creating this rich global experience by both sending students abroad and bringing the world to campus.
Traveling abroad is an excellent way to enrich the academic experience and learn to work with people from different cultures. We have a number of study abroad programs, some especially for engineering students, in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, England, Australia, and Mexico. We also have students who participate in work abroad programs, such as studying nanotechnology in Japan and manufacturing in Brazil.
Learning in a Multicultural Environment
Top employers see their strongest innovators as leaders with well-rounded perspectives and education. At CIT, students are not only learning the technical expertise they need, but they are learning these skills in a diverse, collaborative environment. With opportunities both on and off campus, our students gain that all-important well-rounded, globally-informed education.
Campus Diversity
CIT offers a truly global education to our students. In addition to multiple opportunities to go abroad, our students also have a multicultural experience without ever having to leave campus. Carnegie Mellon enjoys a highly diverse campus where students and faculty from all over the world learn, teach, and engage in collaborative research. CIT in particular has a multinational population with more than 20 percent of our undergraduate students coming from outside the U.S. from a wide range of countries, such as South Africa, Bulgaria, and India. This provides our students with an enriching mix of perspectives from all over the world. Students share experiences and insights in which all benefit from this collective knowledge.
Flexible Curriculum
In addition, our innovative approach to undergraduate engineering curriculum is among the most flexible of our peers. This flexibility provides our students with the opportunity to customize their education and take advantage of numerous courses and minors across the university that have a global context. CIT has even created its own International Engineering minor. This unique minor just for Engineering students enables students to become well-versed in international management and ethics in a global context in addition to studying/working abroad and building a language proficiency.
Global Organizations
Our engineering students also have the opportunity to engage in global experiences through international events, as well as membership and participation in a number of globally-oriented student organizations such as:
History of Global Partnership
The College of Engineering has a well-earned reputation of innovation through collaboration—not only across disciplines, but across cultures as well. We are preparing our undergraduate and graduate students to be leaders in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.
We have forged collaborative research and educational partnerships with international companies, universities, and other organizations. We have a long history of such partnerships, and the benefits to our students have been tremendous. We offer a variety of international degree options at the graduate level, as well as study abroad exchanges with other excellent engineering schools across the globe. In these exchange programs, students are immersed in a rich foreign culture while taking engineering courses and staying on track with degree requirements.
Leaders as Global Citizens
Among the most important skills top employers seek is the ability to discover opportunities in developing markets across cultures and languages and to make connections across countries, disciplines, and industries. Our unique approach graduates students with a global perspective that enables them to move seamlessly between cultures. Naturally, employers seek out these talented students.
Our students are prepared to excel in the newly flattened world. They work as part of diverse teams, and they appreciate differences and gain insight from people of various backgrounds and perspectives. CIT graduates enhance quality of life not just by engineering solutions to society's challenges, but by participating as globally-minded innovators in local, national, and international communities.
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