{"id":23511,"date":"2017-03-31T20:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:20:41","slug":"eurotech-prepares-to-celebrate-twenty-five-years-expands-to-other-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/03\/eurotech-prepares-to-celebrate-twenty-five-years-expands-to-other-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurotech Prepares to Celebrate Twenty-Five Years, Expands to Other Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The successful Eurotech Program, which allows UConn students to double major in engineering and German language and culture, is expanding to allow students to study in a number of different cultures. The Engineering Spanish Program (ESP) currently has its first student, with an Asiatech Program, focused on studying Chinese language and culture, coming in the fall of 2017. The Eurotech program will also celebrate its 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want incoming freshman to think of UConn as a place to become a global engineer. A place where they\u2019ll have the opportunity to integrate engineering and studying a language, a culture and study abroad into one cohesive program. We don\u2019t want this to just be a nice add on, but a destination,\u201d said Brian Schwarz, the director of experiential engineering education initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, Schwarz was the director of advising for the School of Engineering. His title was recently changed as the school has expanded these oversea study programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these programs are going to fall under the umbrella of an International Engineering Program. We\u2019re also looking to expand into France in the near future,\u201d Schwarz said.<\/p>\n<p>All of the International Engineering Programs require five years of study, which includes a B.S. in engineering and a B.A. in the corresponding language for the program. Students take courses and receive a six-month internship in their country of study, spending a total of a year abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The Engineering Spanish Program, which recently launched, takes students to Valencia, Spain to study at Polytechnic University of Valencia, while the Chinese program is located at Shanghai University. In the future, Schwarz expected to extend programs into Italy and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarz is also involved in the Eurotech Living Learning Community, which allows students to live in a cooperative environment focused on their shared interests. That community will also expand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually we\u2019ll create an International Engineering House Learning Community. I\u2019m not sure yet if that will be a separate house or if the Eurotech house will be integrated into the larger International House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarz said that these programs are also beneficial to the corresponding language programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese program is fairly new at UConn, this will help grow the number of Chinese majors. We\u2019ll continue to grow these programs with them strategically,\u201d Schwarz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurotech Program, which provides a degree in engineering and German, is preparing to expand to other cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":221832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-23511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 09:34:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221837,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions\/221837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}