Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology, or BUILD-IT, a USAID-sponsored ASU initiative to link governments, academia and industry together to create tomorrow’s tech-based workforce, recently held a two-day training session for Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) on teaching with learning management systems. The training took place on June 29-30, 2017.
From July 24-28, 2017, BUILD-IT and Oracle Academy jointly organized a five-day intensive train-the-trainer course in Java Foundations for BUIILD-IT academic partners. The training was led by Oracle Academy instructor Jian Li and drew 21 professors from six institutes and introduced faculty to project-based learning techniques in teaching foundational Java courses.
One of the challenges of higher education in Vietnam is the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge taught in schools. Graduates are not adequately equipped with skills to apply concepts or to translate knowledge into practice. To help address this challenge, on May 29, 2017, the BUILD-IT Project-Based Learning Models Workshop was conducted in partnership with National Instruments in Ho Chi Minh City.
Twenty students and two professors from the School of Mechanical Engineering’s (SME) Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), flew to Hanoi from Japan in late February to participate in a global project-based learning (PBL) collaboration with Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) and SME. The challenge of the project was to design and create a vehicle that was able to store and use its own energy and was capable of running a distance of exactly five meters.
After 2 months following the competition’s launch, 26 teams from different provinces moved on to the semi-final round – Idea Presenting Round of WEPICS Competition – Women Engineering Projects in Community Service Competition held by Fablab Danang in cooperation with Arizona State University, The University of Danang (UD),
Planes carrying young leaders from nine Southeast Asian countries landed in Ho Chi Minh City on November 23, 2016. Without hesitation the 17 participants laughed, hugged, and started conversations as if it hadn’t been five months since they last saw each other.
For five consecutive years, in different cities through Vietnam, HEEAP and its partners have hosted an annual Vietnam Engineering Education Conference. HEEAP prides itself on innovation and succeeds each year at producing a conference that grows in size and influence and paves a path for new ventures and partnerships via their extended network.
