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BUSSPP003X and ENGR002X are optional three-credit study abroad opportunities offered as a follow-up to Managing in Complex Environments (required of freshmen CBA students) or ENGR0011/0711 and ENGR0012/0715/0712 (required of freshmen engineering students) at the University of Pittsburgh. These courses involve teams of both business and engineering students who will work on a project involving travel to one of five international destinations.
Official registration information for each course is as follows:
|
Country | Course Number | CRN | Course Number | CRN |
|
Engineering Students |
Business Students |
| Valparaiso, Chile |
ENGR0023 |
15546 |
BUSSPP0037 |
13918 |
| Beijing, China |
ENGR0024 |
15548 |
BUSSPP0038 |
13916 |
| Augsburg, Germany |
ENGR0026 |
15544 |
BUSSPP0036 |
13920 |
| Santos, Brazil |
ENGR0032 |
15576 |
BUSSPP0040 |
13922 |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
ENGR0033 |
25698 |
BUSSPP0041 |
25825 |
The course consists of three parts:
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A pre-departure component that will include a brief introduction to the historical, cultural, economic, and social environments of the country/region of the field study: (Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, or Vietnam), and will also introduce the companies that will be visited during the field study. The student will write a short individual report and a team oral presentation for this part.
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A field study component to either Valparaíso, Chile; Beijing, China; Santos, Brazil; Augsburg, Germany, or Saigon, Vietnam. The field study includes company visits, sightseeing, and lectures at the local universities of: Universidad de Santa María in Chile; Tsinghua University in China, UNISANTOS - Universidade Catolica de Santos and UNISANTA Santa Cecilia University in Brazil; Universität Augsburg in Germany, or University of Economics and Finance in Vietnam. Each student is required to keep a daily journal and participate in the local activities for this part.
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A post departure component that involves the writing and presentation of a research paper focused on one of the companies visited by the group and the culture of the country visited. Both business and engineering viewpoints related to the national and global industry in which it operates must be considered in the company visit component of the paper and in the presentation.
A detailed list of course topics can be found in the course
syllabus.
For students in the school of engineering this course may satisfy some of the
programs electives. Below find a table with each program and the elective they
will use for this course.
|
Major | Counts as... |
| BioEngineering |
Engineering Science |
| Chemical Engineering |
Professional Elective |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Engineering Elective |
| Computer Engineering |
Open Elective |
| Electrical Engineering |
Open Elective |
| Engineering Physics |
N/A |
| Industrial Engineering |
Tech Elective |
| Material Science Engineering |
Tech Elective |
| MechanicalEngineering |
Tech Elective |
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