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

为了确定什么样的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项目进行了分析，并采访了活跃的全球工程师、学生和日本几所工程学校的教授。除此之外，他们还为通用电气与美国一所姊妹学校的联合培训试点项目制定了课程计划，并对该计划进行了试验。该课程计划包括在每个校区开设几门讲座课程，美日联合讲座，学生联合项目，以及日本学生到美国学校进行为期一周的游学。这些尝试的结果证实，语言和跨文化沟通技能的培训，一般文科背景，如访问国的地理，历史和文化，以及全球价值判断能力是必要的。

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.