Summer On Site Immersion In French Language And Engineering
David F. Ollis, Anthony Carl Smith · 2020
Globalization will require production of engineers with not only technical but also foreign language competence.We describe a new summer program at a French engineering school, CPE-Lyon, which provides both French language instruction and engineering laboratory experience.The desired result is an immersion in a foreign culture and language as well as demonstrated use of a second language as a future professional tool, not just a retrospective pathway to a past literature.This new six week for-credit classroom plus laboratory program is a major revision of an earlier CPE-Lyon four week, non-credit language and technology classroom experience begun in 2000 1 .