INTERNATIONAL BUILDING

Abstract

Engineering education of today must adopt aninternational approach in order to prepare students for workon an international arena. The purpose of this paper is togive an example of a successful approach to internationallearning. The case described, Civil Engineers on Tour, CET,is a project run by last year students in Civil Engineering atLuleå University of Technology in Sweden. Every year thestudents start a company with the purpose of organising astudy tour abroad. The activities within the company are toarrange contact evenings with the Swedish building andconstruction industry, get sponsoring, organise and realizethe study tour and the study visits in the countrycontemplated. The learning achieved is a good insight ininternational building and the specific problems inconnection with this. The links between the university andthe industry have been strengthened; the students havebroadened their social and cultural understanding.Index Terms ⎯ Engineering education, project work,internationalization, international cooperation, internationaltraining