The 2012 HEEAP University Program cohort completed its training in the continuing effort to modernize Vietnamese public education in engineering from purely theory-based instruction to active and applied learning techniques Friday, August 31.
Arizona State University’s Executive Vice President and Provost, Elizabeth Capaldi, met with educators at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology at a Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) seminar in Vietnam on August 7. There, Capaldi spoke of the ASU-employed new American University model that transforms educational institutions through data analytics and systems to drive innovation.
The Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) brings together government, academia, and industry leaders to modernize and advance Vietnamese engineering higher education. The alliance kicked off in 2010 with $5 million in funding and a three-year commitment from Intel Vietnam, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Arizona State University (ASU). The past two summers, 78 Vietnamese lecturers from five technical universities and three vocational schools completed training programs at ASU.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, (Nov. 2, 2011) – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, has joined the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) with an in-kind donation of electronic design automation (EDA) software and services valued at over USD $40 million.
Tempe, Ariz.—Son Thanh Nguyen, senior lecturer and faculty in computer science engineering at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in Vietnam, recently spent three months at ASU’s Tempe campus.
