This project aimed to foster international collaboration, a rising standard for higher education in our increasingly global society, through sharing Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s well established project-based curriculum with Hangzhou Dianzi University in Hangzhou, China. Interviews, surveys, and focus groups determined that it is mutually beneficial and possible for WPI and HDU students to jointly conduct sponsored, interdisciplinary research projects concerning the relationship between technology and society. The project produced recommendations to implement collaborative research in the Fall of 2015, allowing students from WPI and HDU to fully experience the long-term benefits of cross-cultural, project-based, and interdisciplinary learning.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Chau, Victor
• Harrison, Abby Elizabeth
• Cerio, Alessandra Maria
• DuBois, Lewis William

Subject

• Learning
• Industry
• Community
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121714-102427

Keyword

• Service learning
• Education, Higher
• Curriculum planning
• Project method in teaching

Advisor

• Rudolph, Jennifer

Year

• 2014

Center

• Hangzhou, China Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Hangzhou Dianzi University School of Management

Date created

• 2014-12-17

Location

• Hangzhou

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright