International Engineering Program
Curriculum
Language Immersion
The IEP experience extends beyond the classroom. Our living and learning community hosts international movie nights, conversation hours, special tutoring sessions with native speakers, and social events to help you feel comfortable in another language.
IEP students pursue two degrees simultaneously. The program couples a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Global Language and Area Studies (GLAS) with a concentration in Japanese, with a Bachelor of Science in one of eight engineering disciplines.
URI’s award-winning language faculty have pioneered effective techniques to integrate language learning with engineering so that you can build professional vocabulary as you reach a high level of proficiency. One of the highlights of the program is a full year spent abroad, including a semester at a partner institution and an international internship.
Undergraduate Programs
Career Opportunities
German IEP and Mechanical Engineering alumnus, Shawn Drew returned to campus to recruit students from the German IEP and the German International Business Program as part of the Engineering Tech Fair. Drew, now employed by BMW in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is looking for fresh talent from URI.
This kind of exclusive recruiting event is a unique benefit of the IEP.

The IEP to me is an amazing opportunity to experience what life is like as a global engineer. The opportunity to intern at top German engineering companies wouldn’t be possible without the IEP. The chance to push my self into learning a whole new language while studying my major in a completely different continent is what the IEP offers, and is what I’m committed to doing.Michael Sarner