BAEM Advising Guide
Opportunities Abroad
Experience with other cultures and countries can count as part of your degree requirements for the BAEM. Or you may be interested in an international internship that pays you to work in another country. There are many opportunities to broaden your horizons and below is some information to get you started.
The main resource at the University is the U of M Learning Abroad Center, which keeps lists of international courses that can be directly used for technical or liberal education credit. See their AEM Program Study Abroad Major Advising Sheet (pdf) for details on courses that can be used for technical credit. The Getting Started page has information on how to get the process of finding a program that is right for you started. IT has support for study abroad and has a Global Seminars Page for short courses that take you abroad.
Aside from getting course credit there are also opportunities to Work, Intern or Volunteer internationally. For these type of opportunities see
- International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience were you can apply for an international internship.
- Work, Intern, Volunteer (WIV) Database Search the U of M Abroad's database
- Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. There is now a U of M Chapter.
Last Modified: 2007-11-14 at 13:32:02 -- this is in International Standard Date and Time Notation
