Engineering international programs at the public university of Navarre: A satisfactory on-going experience in a context of industrial globalization

摘要

In a context of global industrialization, the engineers have to be not only competent and technically well-prepared but also show effective communication in other languages, preferably English, and intercultural skills. For an engineering degree to be competitive, their academic curriculum has to be designed taking into account this fact. This paper describes the Engineering International Programs at the School of Industrial and Telecommunications Engineering of the Public University of Navarre, and particularly how they are organized into two programs, namely the International Curriculum Program and the Student Mobility Program. Both Programs are described in terms of organization, management and admission requirements. Preliminary results of this work-in-progress experience, including number of students enrolled in the Programs and results of the students' satisfaction surveys, are very satisfactory and show the growing interest of students and teachers in the Programs and, more generally, in the internationalization of the academic curricula of the Engineering Degrees of the School.