Our Mission

GlobalHUB is a member of the inaugural class of fourteen Engineering Virtual Organizations (EVO) funded by the National Science Foundation in 2007. GlobalHUB strengthens the field of global engineering by unifying innovative research, collaboration tools, and educational activities. Our mission is to facilitate a cyber-community of scholars, practitioners, and students that advances global engineering education, eliminates barriers for students seeking a global education, and helps prepare a workforce of globally competent engineers. The GlobalHUB will achieve this mission by catalyzing a mutually supportive structure among all global engineering participants:

• Student engineering design teams will use GlobalHUB to collaborate with overseas counterparts, accessing both technical and collaborative resources, including language supports, social and cultural expectations, and country-specific information.
• Faculty members researching global engineering education can evaluate the students' interactions by using the GlobalHUB as a virtual "cultural interaction" lab, interact about program assessment issues and learning outcomes.
• Global engineering practitioners in industry, along with university practitioners, can design and deliver global engineering program resources, ranging from global case studies to global engineering internship opportunities

By serving students, educators and practitioners' needs, GlobalHUB will provide a comprehensive and self-sustaining virtual engineering education community.

The GlobalHUB Team

• E Dan Hirleman, Purdue University, Director
• Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech
• Deba Dutta, University of Michigan
• Eckhard Groll, Purdue University
• Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

Steering Committee

And the GlobalHUB community will not reach its full potential without the valuable advice of our Steering Committee:

• Dr. Larry Allen, Principal, West Lafayette High School, West Lafayette, Indiana.
• Darryl A. Dickerson, National Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
• Dr. John Grandin, Professor of German and Executive Director and founder of University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program (IEP).
• Dr. Gretchen Kalonji, Director of International Strategy Development, University of California Office of the President, Professor of Materials Science.
• Mark S. Lazar, Vice President for Scholarship Programs and International Operations at the Institute of International Education (IIE)
• Dr. Jack Lohmann, Vice Provost and Professor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Dr. Morrison Obeng, Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Computer Engineering, Bethune Cookman University.
• Dr. Kurt Paterson, Chair, International Division of American Society of Engineering Educator (ASEE), Professor, Michigan Tech.
• Pamela Ruiz, Director and National Secretary, The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) United States.
• Dr. Richard F. Vaz, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.