Prospective University Members
We appreciate your interest as a potential member in the Global Engineering Excellence Initiative (GEE) and the Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP). This is a consortium of universities from around the world sponsored by Continental AG that work to prepare top engineering students to perform successfully in a global working environment.
The format for the GEE Consortium is to convene an elite group of industry and university representatives from around the world, who are interested, committed and capable of providing world-class engineering education and internship opportunities to develop a globally-competent engineering workforce.
As a result of the Global Engineering Study, the Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP) was created to provide global internship projects to students from the consortium universities. This program addresses the critical needs of preparing an engineering workforce that is prepared to tackle the myriad global challenges of the 21st century Corporation.
If you would like for your University to be part of this groundbreaking Consortium, please see the list of requirements and benefits below. We look forward to speak with you to answer any questions you may have about becoming a member. Please contact our GEIP Chair, Dr. Marcio Netto, for more information. We look forward to speak with you soon.
Dr. Marcio Netto
Global Engineering Internship Program
E-Mail: marcio.netto@poli.usp.br
Please view the Powerpoint Presentation below to learn more about the University Presentation "Educating the Next Generation of Engineering for the Global Workplace".
University Requirements
- A selected number of excellent students can participate. Universities
select the students on the basis of criteria which will be defined in the second step.
Possible Requirements
- Language skills
- Academic performance
- Interpersonal skills
- Matches students career plans
- A. In this first year, all participating universities do the selection process directly with Continental via
direct communication. The company then conducts an interview and gives a final yes or no.
All of the nos go up for re-election either for a different position in the company or for the host
university to elect another student.
B. In the following years, the universities select one student per open position. The company then conducts an interview and gives a final yes or no. All of the nos go up for re-election to all of the university partners to nominate an intern for the position. - Advise students prior to internship regarding practical organization of internship (travel, health and repatriation insurance, etc)
- Universities offer specific courses with a global context to prepare these students. These courses ideally take place during the academic year before students leave their home institution for the internship
- International Project Management and Team Competence
- Intercultural training for a global Working Environment
- Global issues (For example, international relations, global economics, world trade, etc)
- Language
- Student kick-off week organized by universities and industries.
- Participate in the development and execution of the monthly events.
- Conduct and collect evaluations from students individually and as a group.
University Benefits
- Improving the quality of the engineering graduate pool
- Ability to set quality benchmarks for global engineering education
- Increasing attractiveness of engineering programs
- Establish strategic linkages with leading global companies
- Enhance knowledge transfer between academia and industry
- Gaining global visibility as a member of a network of leading engineering schools
- Networking with likeminded top universities around the world
- Pathway to adapt engineering curricula to global engineering practice