The civil engineers we educate today will enter a truly global work force. Globalization, resultant from a proliferation of information technology, has increased the likely hood that civil engineers will find themselves working in cross-cultural situations. Success in such environments will require, in addition to classical engineer skills, the ability to work effectively in groups with different and often divergent values, norms, and behaviors. Organizational psychologists have recently defined this ability as "cultural intelligence". As engineering educators, it is important that we understand this emerging idea so we can best prepare our students for the challenges they will face. This paper offers a review of the pertinent literature on the subject of cultural intelligence and offers a discussion of how it pertains to our Body of Knowledge.
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