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Aligning Global Engineering Graduate Program Priorities

Global Engineering at MIT

## Dr. Nishikant (Nish) Sonwalkar: Academician, Scientist, Musician

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Dr. Sonwalkar is regarded as a leading expert in the application of computers in education. He has extensive research and development experience in hypermedia authoring, mobile learning, adaptive learning, and brain-based synaptic learning, advanced scientific visualization, database management systems, and computer simulation.

After receiving doctoral degree from MIT in the area of Molecular Dynamics of Nano-interfaces, he joined MIT as faculty in Mechanical Engineering, but his passion for technology enabled education led him become the founding director of Hypermedia Teaching Facility (Hypermedia Lab) at MIT and later he was appointed as the Principal Educational Architect of MIT.

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NISH 2021

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Welcome to Part I of the two-part, online workshop series on Aligning Global Engineering Graduate Program Priorities, funded by the National Science Foundation. The focus of Part I will be on the following questions:

What is Global Engineering? What do global engineers need to know and know how to do?

How do we achieve these learning objectives through graduate education? 

The goal of this workshop is to generate consensus on a Body of Knowledge within the emerging field of Global Engineering, working together to: (i) develop and align learning objectives and graduate curricula programming and (ii) strengthen collaboration amongst Global Engineering and other related programs in the United States. 

Please review the following background documents: [North American Global Engineering Programs Summary](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12JHqNYsjdSavnrgk4GC28sy8g1Z0KAAc/view?usp=sharing); [Part I Workshop Participant Survey Summary](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MROalnXDGBfTKlniq5d7rNd0IzvXFWy5/view?usp=sharing); and [Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i9XEjqhXvnKrUp5SLQ6WG9LWesBFMwOp/view?usp=sharing).





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