>> September 15, 2009 - A new National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored “International Student Satellite Project” under ASTE Prof. Joseph Wang will send 18 USC students to Japan to participate in the design, building, and operation of micro-satellites over the next three years. Read more>>
>> August 7, 2009 - Thirty-eight students from the U.S., India and China wind up their Viterbi School projects — and some will return to USC as grad students. Read more>>
>> July 27, 2009 - The University of Southern California invites a few students from IIT Kharagpur under the umbrella of a summer program to work on research projects with professors at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. VOA reports on USC Engineering interns from India. Read more>>
>> July 20, 2009 - For the fourth year in a row, ten outstanding undergraduates from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur this summer conducted intensive individual research with top USC faculty. Read more >>
>> June 8, 2009 - Great opportunities in the aftermath of the 3rd Tsinghua-USC Annual Workshop which took place May 21 - 24 in Beijing, China. NEW research center to study "green and smart" IT energy applications will be founded as part of the joint partnership between Viterbi School and Tsinghua University. Read more >>
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What early explorers once believed about the surface of the planet is actually true, in a purely metaphorical sense: The world is flat! With advances in web technologies, anyone can collaborate and do business with any individual or corporation around the globe. This new ability of intellectual exchange and trade via commercial flatness is “globalization level three,” according to Thomas L. Freidman, author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (2005).
Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies, Ltd., defines globalization as “sourcing where it is best, using talent where it is best, and marketing products where there are no boundaries.” The added benefit of globalization is in bringing products to market faster with the help of people working in many locations and time zones.
There has been much reporting and debate about the future of education and the engineering profession. The National Academy of Engineering’s "Engineering of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century" is a two-part strategic initiative that studies the future of engineering education and the profession itself in the first phase, and will “build on the phase-one visions of engineering to develop strategies and concrete plans for engineering education” in phase two.
For additional information about the international academic and research programs at the Viterbi School of Engineering, please contact Prof. Raghu Raghavendra, Sr. Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, at raghu@usc.edu
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