ATTN: Entrepreneurial students!
Highlight your resume with an important needed skill set with an authentic engineering class capstone like experience--ECEP 405: Global Engineering. Work with Brazil, Germany & Portugal!
We now have students who earned jobs abroad and Gillman scholarships.
Sign up Here to attend an info session: https://forms.gle/2Pp1otrBJ6Xa7Y4r7
Credit Earned Can Apply To:
-Entrepreneurship Minor- This course is an Entrepreneurship Minor Elective course. We had a team earn 2nd place in the Entrepreneurship Idea competition consisting of Engineering, HCC, computer science and IS majors!
-Grand Challenges Scholars Program
-We also have had Global Studies students join us!
Interested in working with a Peer from another country developing and solving global challenges with three other countries?? Employers are seeking individuals who understand and can work as global citizens. This important skill set is highlighted not only as a student outcome in ABET and highlighted in the World Economic forum, World Bank, UNESCO and more. This semester's project will be focusing on developing appropriate technology for global poverty.
This Spring 2025, the Engineering and Computing Education Program will be offering ECEP 405: Global Engineering. As an award winning class and proven/published research class, this opportunity provides students an authentic engaging experience to work with peers from three other countries, synchronously, developing solutions to our global world using their engineering background. Germany, Brazil and Portugal universities will be joining us this semester.
Dr. Gurganus will be holding 2 information sessions about the class. Please sign up here.
You may reach out to her directly.
January 15th 11-11:30am
January 22nd 11-11:30am
If you are interested, please contact Dr. Jamie Gurganus jgurganus@umbc.edu. She will provide you the permission to enroll if needed! The prerequisites have 90 credits or more, but special consideration will be given if you are a junior near the senior year.