One of the many blessings in my life has been my ability to travel and help transform engineering education around the world.
These experiences have given me some insight into today's engineering students and have helped me see that no matter where we live, we're not so different after all.
Chennai Engineering Colleges
While cultures vary greatly from place to place, I've found that at the individual level engineering students are more similar than dissimilar. My colleagues elsewhere don't necessarily see it that way, however.
Engineering Graduation
Prior to engaging students overseas, I'm often surprised when a colleague pulls me aside and says quietly, as if telling me a secret, "Dave, you need to understand something. You're not in the United States anymore. You're in __________ (fill in the blank), and students here don't do X," where "X" is the particular thing that these students supposedly don't do or aren't capable of doing. For example, I have been told various times and in various locations that engineering students aren't curious, don't answer questions, don't ask questions, can't talk about emotions, aren't creative, and so on and so forth across a litany of supposed inadequacies and incapacities.
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