McCormick students are urged to engage in activities that prepare them for careers that will inevitably have international dimensions. There is no location now where issues are not influenced by events and factors that operate across national boundaries, and, in order to be effective in the presence of this reality, McCormick students must take advantage of what Northwestern offers along these lines. The following are recommended for serious consideration:

Foreign Language Study

Northwestern (in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences) offers formal, for-credit coursework in some 23 different languages. While McCormick does not have a foreign language requirement, language coursework can be applied to the degree as part of the Social Science/Humanitities Theme Requirement or as Unrestricted Electives.

Study Abroad

The Study Abroad Office (http://www.northwestern.edu/studyabroad/) is a student's gateway to doing academic work at institutions of higher learning anywhere in the world. The office of International Program Development also offers opportunities tailored to selected engineering disciplines in Paris, Beijing, Zurich, Strasbourg, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Bombay; for more information, contact international@northwestern.edu. It is typical that credits earned while studying overseas can be used to fulfill McCormick degree requirements.

Externships Overseas

The centerpiece of externships at McCormick is the Co-operative Engineering Education program (http://co-op.mccormick.northwestern.edu). Co-op student have a chance, depending upon their employer, to take a term at a foreign location where that company has operations. Other students may seek internships with companies that will assign them to an overseas location for some or all of the period of employment.

Faculty Research

McCormick students frequently engage themselves in faculty research, and it may be possible join the laboratory of a professor's collaborators at a foreign institution.