Study Abroad | NC State ISE

Study Abroad

With study abroad, you can experience new places and cultures, make friends from around the world, and gain a global perspective–while earning credits towards your degree. It will allow you to develop highly valued skills such as intercultural communication, foreign language proficiency, adaptability, and problem-solving.

While abroad, you will:

  • Articulate the elements of engineering that communicate across cultures.
  • Understand how cultures that are similar on the face, can be different underneath, and use that knowledge to work with in-country partners to become better intercultural communicators.
  • Identify diverse characteristics of learners.
  • Identify skills that students in Rwanda have and whether those skills are the same or different from their own experience.
  • Understand cultural influences in Rwanda that have influenced the country’s progress.
  • Understand the relationship of engineering to eco-tourism and the resultant influence on the population of a country less-developed than their own.
  • Interpret how the historical viewpoint of Global North countries toward Global South countries is a false narrative and how mutualism can benefitboth sets of countries.

This study abroad opportunity runs from May 13 – June 11 and is worth 3 credit hours.

Course Approval for Study Abroad

The following list outlines the steps you need to take to receive approval for courses taken at another institution while you study abroad.

  1. First, you determine which courses you need for your academic plan
  2. Next, you meet with the Study Abroad Office to choose a program location that fits your goals.
  3. Next, do your courses appear in the Transfer Credit Database?
YES
NO

Yes

  1. Complete the Study Abroad Course Approval Form. After that, you submit it to the appropriate personnel listed on the form.
    • If the course is a GEP, you should email Brian Koehler at bdkoehle@ncsu.edu.
    • If the course is a major or technical elective, you should email Kanton Reynolds at ktreyno2@ncsu.edu.
  2. Finally, you check your Navigate profile to find your course approval.

No

  1. Complete the ISE Course Substitution Form. In addition, please attach the syllabus in English. After that, you submit the form for approval.
  2. Once approved, you should check your Navigate profile to confirm the approval. In addition, you update your course substitution if needed.
  3. Complete the Study Abroad Course Approval Form. After that, you submit it to the appropriate personnel listed on the form.
    • If the course is a GEP, you should email Brian Koehler at bdkoehle@ncsu.edu.
    • If the course is a major or technical elective, you should email Kanton Reynolds at ktreyno2@ncsu.edu.
  4. Finally, you check your Navigate profile to find your course approval.

    Weekly Agenda

    3-4 days of collaborative, student-centric educational programming

    1-2 days of research and/or classroom instruction (NCSU Faculty)

    Weekend Cultural Activities

    This opportunity is available to Technology, Engineering and Design Education Majors and all CED Graduate Students. Other CED majors can apply on an exception basis.

    For more information contact – Kanton Reynolds, Ph.D. | Industrial and Systems Engineering | ktreyno2@ncsu.edu