Creating a Global Engineering Education Program-Its Development and Practice of a Joint Global Engineer Education Program conducted by Japanese & US Universities

为了确定哪些课程内容和教学方法适合培养学生成为全球工程师，作者和她的研究伙伴对现有的政府支持的全球教育计划进行了分析，并采访了日本几所工程学校的活跃的全球工程师、学生和教授。除此之外，他们还与美国的一所姊妹学校共同制定了一项试点通用电气培训计划的课程计划，并对该计划进行了试用。课程计划包括在每个校园开设几个讲座，美日联合讲座，学生联合项目，以及日本学生到美国学校为期一周的学习之旅。这些尝试的结果证实，语言和跨文化交际技能、来访国家的地理、历史和文化等一般文科背景以及全球价值判断能力的培训是必要的。

In order to determine what curricular content and teaching methods are appropriate to train students to become global engineers, the author and her research partners conducted analyses of existing government-supported global education programs, and interviews with active global engineers, students, and professors of several engineering schools in Japan. Along with these, they developed a curriculum plan for a pilot joint GE training program with a sister school in the United States and tried out the plan. The curriculum plan included several lecture courses on each campus, US-Japan joint lectures, students' joint projects, and a one-week study tour to the US school by Japanese students. The results from these attempts confirmed that trainings in linguistic and cross-cultural communication skills, general liberal arts background such as geography, history and culture of a visiting country, and global value judgement ability are necessary.