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TO: Engineering Students
FROM: Dean Tucker

Dear Students,

The engineering workplace is now more diverse and complex than in previous era. When you graduate from Illinois, you will work in a global economy where businesses operate around the world and around the clock. To prepare you for success in this environment, the College of Engineering offers many different types of international experiences. These opportunities will introduce you to other countries and other cultures, and will teach you how to work with a broad variety of people and organizations.

I encourage you to include an international experience to your engineering education. You will certainly make yourself more attractive to potential employers. More importantly, you will learn to see yourself, your country, and your world in a different way. Engineering is a global profession. You owe it to yourself to have a global experience.

Sincerely,

Charles L. Tucker III
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
College of Engineering

Why should students have an international experience?

  • Campus and College Commitment - the campus has made large inroads to encouraging it's students to spend time abroad from one week to one year... 
    • Campus Goal-50% of students w/international experience
  • Internationalizing Curricula and Students
  • Creates Global Awareness in Students
  • Science and Technology is Global
  • Companies are Global
  • 75% probability that you will interact with someone across the world in job
  • Engineering Projects Work Globally
  • Makes Students more Competitive in the Job Market

Links to supporting pages will help guide students to finding opportunities if thinking about study abroad, provide information to current students who have applied to study abroad, provide current students studying abroad information and provide continuous up-to-date information on the international activities/programs within the College of Engineering.
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