NEWS & EVENTS:
2010
- Annual GEE Conference in Mexico
Jan 20-21, 2010, The annual GEE conference, held in January 2010, was hosted jointly by Continenal and Tech de Monterrey. The yearly conference is a meeting attended by representatives of the Global Engineering Excellence Initiative (GEE). This event brings together Conti representatives and universities to discuss about Global Engineering education.
The conference participants implemented an additional strategic focus for the next years besides the GEIP. The major goal is to develop and improve a platform between industry and leading engineering universities to strengthen education for engineers in the global businesses.
Industries and universities should work closer together to understand better the needs of industry and the trends to improve college education continuously. Students must also be involved in early stages in industry sponsored research projects on future trends and technologies. It is very important to offer students a platform to gain experience in industry early enough in their education, too. For Continental it is also important to have a platform to present the company to students and bind excellent and interested students.
All members agreed to initiate student projects together with university professors and Continental engineers. Very good students could be awarded for an international internship.
“For Continental it is very important to establish contact among the company engineers and GEE Universities, to improve engineering education and to use the network as a channel for talents”, says Sehnaz Özden, Global Head of Corporate Employer Branding and Recruiting of Continental.
All members of the conference agreed: The GEE initiative must be more than an internship program. This will strengthen the network between Continental and the universities.
2009
- ICEE - International Conference on Engineering Education
Oct 2009, Seoul, South Korea (English), Talk (Slides Download). This international conference is one of the most prestigious forums where programs like GEIP must be presented.
- GEIP-Intern Workshop
Jul 23-25, 2009, The Workshop of the Global Engineering Internship Program will be held in Frankfurt, Germany. The event is a success and GEIP-Students develop a deeper understanding of globalization and its impact on Continental AG as they toured manufacturing plants and speak with high-level business managers. The students also benefit from meeting the other international interns and working together in teams to solve real-world business case studies provided by Continental. The perfect blend of learning business and technology all while being exposed to new cultural frameworks in Germany, are a trully special opportunity for these engineering students.
2008
- UNESP - Engineering Week
Aug 2008, Bauru, Brazil (Portuguese), Talk (Slides Download). Opening event talk about international opportunities to students, when I presented different academic interchange programs, but also GEIP as a successful internship program approaching global aspects of international projects.
- COBENGE - Brasilian Congress on Engineering Education
Jun 2008, São Paulo, Brazil (Portuguese), Paper (Text Download). In this Congress we Presented both, GEE and GEIP, as a successful initiative to support engineering students internships, with special focus on the current global scenario involving partnership around the world for engineering activities.
- New Port Colloquium on International Engineering Education
Nov 2008, New Port, RI, USA (English), Talk (Slides Download). The New Port Colloquium was a special forum to discuss new proposals for engineering education, and our invited talk gave us the opportunity to present the GEIP program to a high qualified audience with members from universities interested on internationalization strategies.
- Sun Jul 27: GEIP-Intern Workshop Kick-off
July 27 - Aug 2, The inaugural Workshop of the Global Engineering Internship Program was held in Vienna, Austria. The event was a success and all GEIP-Students developed a deeper understanding of globalization and its impact on Continental AG as they toured manufacturing plants and spoke with high-level business managers. The students also benefitted from meeting the other international interns and working together in teams to solve real-world business case studies provided by Continental. The perfect blend of learning business and technology all while being exposed to new cultural frameworks in Austria and the Czech Republic.
2007
- DAAD German-Brazilian Colloquium on Academic Cooperation
Nov 2007, São Paulo, Brazil (English), Poster, (Pdf Download) (Jpg Download). In this DAAD colloquium I took the opportunity to present a poster about GEE-GEIP.
- 115th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Jun 22-25, Executive Director of the Division of Professional Practice at Georgia Tech, Tom Akins, will present the GEIP at the ASEE Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The presentation topic is "Models on Industry and University Collaboration through Co-op and Internships". For more information visit http://www.asee.org/index.cfm.
- 60th Annual NAFSA Conference & Expo
May 26-30, Georgia Tech's Work Abroad Program Staff will attend the NAFSA Conference in Washington, D.C. The Work Abroad Program will also develop and present a poster on the Global Engineering Internship Program during the Conference's Poster Session. Many universities will present posters according to theme groups established by NAFSA. The GEIP Poster will be presented under the theme group, "Work, Internships, and Volunteers Abroad". For more information visit http://www.nafsa.org/.