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Can Tho University (CTU) teamed up with the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) this March to hold a Soft Skills Training Workshop for CTU’s senior IT students. The workshop, held at CTU on March 27, equipped more than 60 senior IT students with the necessary knowledge, experience and skills to land a job after graduation.

HEEAP funded the soft-skills workshop to thank CTU’s senior IT students for their volunteer work at the March 19-20 Vietnam Engineering Education Conference.

Why Women are Central to U.S. Foreign Policy

CAN THO, March 19, 2013 -- The U.S.-supported Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) opened its first conference to provide leaders in government, industry and academia an opportunity to discuss and collaborate on improving engineering education throughout Southeast Asia.

Women currently account for four percent of students enrolled in applied technology programs at Vietnam’s vocational schools. An initiative through the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) aims to change that.

This week Intel Products Vietnam awarded the first HEEAP Vocational Female Students Scholarship awards. Over 700 million VND was awarded to 109 students from 13 colleges and universities in Vietnam.

Dr. Nguyen Ba Hai implements innovative teaching techniques from the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) into his classroom at the University of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The learning environment is not just limited to the classroom; Dr. Hai integrates social media, such as Facebook and YouTube, as interactive teaching tools. With a project-based learning objective, students are placed in groups where they are encouraged to share ideas and work as a team. At the end of each week, Dr.

Intel Corporation has received the U.S. Secretary of State’s 2012 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) for a collaborative project involving the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and ASU’s Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP). Secretary Hillary Clinton presented the award for the efforts of Intel Vietnam at an event in Washington D.C., Nov. 28.

An electrical engineering professor has found student success through introducing HEEAP teaching methods in his classroom at the the University of Danang - University of Science and Technology (UD-DUT) in Vietnam. 

Engineering departments across Vietnam’s Cao Thang Technical College (CTTC) collaborated to initiate a university-wide student “tower” contest based on HEEAP learning methods. The competition attracted more than 200 students across engineering departments, including mechanical, electrical and automation.  The students were divided into 36 teams of four to five and underwent a preliminary competition to construct the highest tower in 30 minutes.