Internationalizing the Engineering Qualifications

摘要

Internationalization is a main strategy for companies to increase their profit and growth, to achieve this strategy a highly qualified work force is required to live and work in an international community. Engineers should not be shaped to have hard and soft qualifications only, but also having the capacity, knowledge, and skill that make them eligible for working International. Preparations of engineer who has the ability to work and participate in multicultural communities, provides a great opportunity for companies to achieve their targets. To produce a well-prepared engineering workforce in the future, the EU has been precipitated by the Bologna Declaration, while the USA has been encouraged by the transition to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology EC2000 accreditation criteria. To help in the on-going process, in this article, a new approach for internationalizing the engineering qualifications will be presented. This approach will model the international qualifications based on the major elements of the target country, which are environment, government, people, and market. End up with case study based on the authors' background in Saudi Arabia for the qualifications related to each element.