The Important Tool for the Transformation in Global Engineering Education: Mobility

Abstract

While global challenges (such as changes in demographic structure, demands for better living conditions, sustainability, climate change, and other changes in nutrition, water sources, health, energy, environment) are becoming a part of our daily life, the importance and the necessity of the graduates who have global attributes are becoming more and more important. Since most of these global challenges are much more related to the engineering issues, engineering education with a global perspective is needed. The competences to achieve global engineering attributes can not only be obtained from one engineering college. Many engineering schools are requesting at least a term for study abroad. In year 2020, 7 million of the students will be mobile globally, and the aim for the European Commission is that 20 % of graduates will take at least study abroad.