Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work
through collaboration and mobility. Its biggest challenge to engineers however is more
fundamental and difficult: to better understand what they know and value qua engineers and why.
This volume reports an experimental effort to help sixteen engineering educators produce
personal geographies describing what led them to make risky career commitments to international
and global engineering education. The contents of their diverse trajectories stand out in
extending far beyond the narrower image of producing globally-competent engineers. Their
personal geographies repeatedly highlight experiences of incongruence beyond home countries
that provoked them to see themselves and understand their knowledge differently. The
experiences were sufficiently profound to motivate them to design educational experiences that
could challenge engineering students in similar ways. For nine engineers gainingnew
international knowledge challenged assumptions that engineering work and life are limited to
purely technical practices compelling explicit attention to broader value commitments. For
five non-engineers and two hybrids gaining new international knowledge fueled ambitions to
help engineering students better recognize and critically examine the broader value commitments
in their work. A background chapter examines the historical emergence of international
engineering education in the United States and an epilogue explores what it might take to
integrate practices of critical self-analysis more systematically in the education and training
of engineers. Two appendices and two online supplements describe the unique research process
that generated these personal geographies especially the workshop at the U.S. National Academy
of Engineering in which authors were prohibited from participating in discussions of their
manuscripts. Table of Contents: The Border Crossers: Personal Geographies of International and
Global Engineering Educators (Gary Lee Downey) From Diplomacy and Development to
Competitiveness and Globalization: Historical Perspectives on the Internationalization of
Engineering Education (Brent Jesiek and Kacey Beddoes) Crossing Borders: My Journey at WPI
(Rick Vaz) Education of Global Engineers and Global Citizens (E. Dan Hirleman) In Search of
Something More: My Path Towards International Service-Learning in Engineering Education
(Margaret F. Pinnell) International Engineering Education: The Transition from Engineering
Faculty Member to True Believer (D. Joseph Mook) Finding and Educating Self and Others Across
Multiple Domains: Crossing Cultures Disciplines Research Modalities and Scales (Anu
Ramaswami) If You Don't Go You Don't Know (Linda D. Phillips) A Lifetime of Touches of an
Elusive Virtual Elephant: Global Engineering Education (Lester A. Gerhardt) Developing Global
Awareness in a College of Engineering (Alan Parkinson) The Right Thing to Do: Graduate
Education and Research in a Global and Human Context (James R. Mihelcic) Author Biographies
