June 1, 2007
A Global Approach to Engineering
Universities push their future engineers to study abroad, with limited success
Before she arrived in Namibia, Tarra Epstein had her trip planned out as precisely as a line plotted on a grid. She and three other engineering students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute had come to the South African country to help set up alternative-energy programs for poor villages, and Ms. Epstein had written up a daily schedule and plan of action for herself and her colleagues.
In time, all of
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