Transatlantic Interaction with European Project Semester

This paper describes successful interaction between engineering colleges in the United States and similar institutions engaged in the European Project Semester program, EPS, throughout Europe. This interaction involved both participation of teaching and international student exchange. The EPS program described herein was designed to promote student exchange and student interaction between EPS institutions in a multidiscipline environment in Europe. The primary purpose of EPS is to address engineering design in junior and senior years. As a coincidental result several students from the United States have participated in this primarily European program for the benefit of broadening the educational and career horizons of these students as well as gain valuable insight to international approaches of engineering design. In every case students from the United States have commented that their experience was significant however meeting engineering senior design requirements in some cases has been problematic due to interpretation of ABET senior design requirements.