Summary
EAP broadens your academic perspectives and can enhance your technical
education in most subfields of engineering. You will gain exposure
to different modes of problem solving, leading toward different approaches
to the design and implementation of engineering projects. Furthermore,
you can fulfill major requirements while taking advantage of unique
course work at some of the world’s finest institutions. EAP
also offers opportunities to explore international business and technology
management issues.
In an era of globalization, study abroad will give you a competitive edge in your future career. A growing number of engineering firms are multinational in composition, resulting in a greater need for engineers who have the cross-cultural skills and international experience to interact with colleagues and
competitors from around the world.
Join the many UC engineering students who will study abroad this year through EAP!
Program Options
Featured Opportunities
Turkey: Bilkent University; Middle East Technical University
Sweden: Lund University
United Kingdom: Imperial College London; University of Edinburgh
Special-focus Programs
Japan: Engineering & Science in English, Tohoku University; Engineering & Science Research, Osaka University
Find the right program for you:
- Use the EAP Program Search Engine to find programs offering engineering courses.
- Browse the MyEAP Course Catalog for engineering courses previously taken by EAP students. Additional courses may be available and not all courses may still be offered.
- For additional course information, check the Academic Focus section found on all the program summary pages for each country.
Related Pages: Computer & Information Sciences
Information for Your Major
Check your campus link below to see if your department has provided specific information about
study abroad:
Major engineering projects have international scope and a global impact. To be successful, today’s engineer must have an understanding of and appreciation for other cultures and societies. Studying abroad on EAP is an ideal means to achieve that goal.
—Professor Armen Der Kiureghian
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley
Student Comments
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
"EAP exposed me to different views and different chemical engineering aspects of Chinese industry. Studying abroad teaches you to see life in a totally different way. It is amazing and mind-opening."
—Neema Mashayekhi, Hong Kong
Civil and Environmental Engineering
"EAP gave me a better understanding of how other countries teach civil engineering. My UC campus is more theory-based, whereas METU taught more application-based engineering. Having a semester or year abroad will open your eyes to other cultures and people."
—Mahsa Hematabadi, Turkey
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Coming into this program, I didn’t have an idea of what I wanted to specialize in. The research I did exposed me to a new field of electrical engineering. My time in Japan helped me gain insight into what I wanted to do with my major after college.
—Chris Herbert, Japan
"EAP has been the single most important experience of my life so far. I had an internship at MAX-lab, where I followed a specific type of research related to nanotechnology. I have a wider perspective of electrical engineering now. I think engineering students are worried about graduating on time and not being able to take as many engineering classes abroad. But the classes are there if you look for them. Most importantly, studying abroad is amazingly fun! I would do it all over again in a heartbeat."
—Jonathan Marrs, Sweden
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
"My first semester abroad, I took one intense engineering lab class and began research with my professor. In the lab, I designed several objects using Solid Edge design software and used many different machines to manufacture them. We often worked in groups and had to learn how to evenly divide responsibility among the group members. For spring break I spent six weeks in the northeast mountains of Kyoto working for a race car company that was getting ready for its big 24-hour Le Mans Race in France. I learned how to use CATIA design software and helped test parts and designs in the company’s wind tunnel facility."
—John Shinozaki, Japan
"I took courses on robot technology and industrial design in the fall and returned to Sweden the following summer for a paid internship in biophysics. EAP gives you the chance to step back, look at your academic career, and refocus your interests. I highly recommend this for all engineers."
—Anisha Jain, Sweden
Internships & Research
While on EAP, you can extend your education beyond the classroom through an internship or research project focused on your specific interests. Below are some examples. Check the main Internships, Research, & Independent Study page for EAP's policies governing academic credit for such activities.
Sample Internships
Internship opportunities vary term to term and placements CANNOT be guaranteed or arranged prior to arrival at your program site.
The following are past examples only and do not indicate future availability.
- A race car company near Kyoto. Duties included using CATIA design software and helping test parts and designs in the company’s wind tunnel facility. This internship was self-arranged and not for academic credit. (Japan)
Sample Research or Independent Study Projects
Biological and Biomedical Engineering
- Liver tissue engineering. Research included in vivo (reconstructing a rat liver in an organoid, so as to three-dimensionally observe the liver structure) and in vitro (growing hepatocytes and fibroblasts in a culture medium) methods, as well as analysis of whether the engineered organ demonstrates markers of liver-specific functions (e.g., the secretion of albumin and urea). (Japan)
- The techniques and instruments of genetic and tissue engineering. Research focused on the composition, construction, and applications of artificial bone. (Japan)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Freeway travel time prediction. Research focused on developing an algorithm to predict freeway travel time based on information about the current state of the system. (Japan)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Motion compensation in X-ray Computed Tomographic (CT) and Positron Emission Tomographic (PET) image reconstruction where the patient is allowed to breathe normally. Research included developing a motion compensation algorithm to reconstruct different time frames within the respiratory cycle without sacrificing image quality from reduced counts. (France)
- Precision placement of nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) quantum dots on silicon substrates. Research focused on repeatedly using self-assembled monolayer (SAM) templates to achieve complex 3-dimensional placement of dots. (Japan)
- Network music. Research focused on how to compensate for time delay in the transmission of audio data through the Internet (due to network conditions and the physical distance the data must travel) so that a listener can hear time-consistent music. (Japan)
- Applications of MOS current-mode circuits to analog computing. Research involved the modeling and simulation of current source, mirror, and summation circuits. This project concluded with the design of chip layouts for circuits of increasing complexity, first by hand but eventually using a hardware description language. (Japan)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Development of an automated reactor control. Research included performing process control experiments in a lab-scale water cooling plant using an S7 siemens system, as well as programming dynamic simulations in Matlab and Simulink. (Chile)
- Driving assistance (not automation) of an automobile during head-in parking maneuvers. Research included using sensors and motion detectors to calculate optimum angles and tolerance values (based on distance between vehicles, depth of the parking spot, etc.), and translating these values into angles of the steering wheel. This project concluded with tests of the system in a driving simulator. (Japan)
- Optimization of a fully electrically driven and operated Power Shovel prototype. Research included assembling the prototype, testing its characteristics and abilities (e.g., ideal torque), reconfiguring its electric motor controller, and developing a new microcontroller to maintain stable speeds as hydraulic pressure load changes. (Japan)
- Delta wing characteristics and wind tunnel testing. Project included observing basic airfoil flow patterns, pressure distribution testing, visualization testing, 3D wind tunnel force measurements on a delta wing model, and analysis of velocity patterns around the model. (Japan)
- Underwater robot design. Research focused on new functions and research applications for such robots and new techniques for power supplies. (Japan)
