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What is the likelihood that a professor of German, an author of several articles and a book on Franz Kafka, would become an authority on the globalization of engineering education? What is the likelihood that a professor of German would be able to encourage hundreds of engineering students to become proficient in a second or third language and spend a year of work and study abroad? What is the likelihood that a professor of German would develop a network with dozens of global companies to ensure internships for students and long-term positions for graduates as well as significant financial support for the overall programmatic effort?
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Grandin, J. (2011). Bridging Two Worlds. In: What is Global Engineering Education For?. Synthesis Lectures on Global Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02125-1_4
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