INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze their assumptions, attitudes, and practices that may inhibit effective working relationship with people (peers, clients/customers, suppliers) from differing cultures and create a plan to address opportunities for improvement Audience: Graduate 2. Identify a set of strategies and best practices to draw from when interacting with individuals of differing cultural backgrounds Audience: Graduate 3. Lay out a framework for developing and applying an international strategy that creates value for the engineering organization and corporation Audience: Graduate 4. Apply an analytic process to assess the managerial implications of international strategy, including product, country, location, and organization choices for a multinational engineering operation Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze their assumptions, attitudes, and practices that may inhibit effective working relationship with people (peers, clients/customers, suppliers) from differing cultures and create a plan to address opportunities for improvement Audience: Graduate 2. Identify a set of strategies and best practices to draw from when interacting with individuals of differing cultural backgrounds Audience: Graduate 3. Lay out a framework for developing and applying an international strategy that creates value for the engineering organization and corporation Audience: Graduate 4. Apply an analytic process to assess the managerial implications of international strategy, including product, country, location, and organization choices for a multinational engineering operation Audience: Graduate