The objective of the U.S.-ASEAN Fulbright Initiative is to deepen people-to-people engagement and strengthen our educational ties, as referred to in Secretary Clinton’s recent remarks at the US-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (which can be found here:http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/07/194843.htm)
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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.
HANOI -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced a $2.4 million grant to Arizona State University (ASU) to support the expansion of the Higher Education Engineering Alliance Program (HEEAP) that leverages public and private sector funding to improve the quality of higher education in the country.
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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 Pedagogical Research Laboratory at the University of Ho Chi Minh City by the Ba Hai Establishment of Technology has introduced an intuitive graphical programming language course for students and those with special learning needs with a unique tuition rate of 1 USD per course.
International Women’s Day Article: Women engineers in Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Thi Hong Minh gives a whole new meaning to cutting edge. To understand why, you only need to look at her title: Vice Dean of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), School of Mechanical Engineering – Material Cutting and Industrial Instrument Department.
Danaher Corporation’s subsidiaries Tektronix, Fluke and Keithley sign MOUs with five Vietnam Universities to help advance engineering education in Vietnam with $300,000 USD donation of equipment and faculty scholarships as part of the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program
Alliance will foster research collaborations with U.S., economic development and student exchange programs.
Tempe, Arizona (January 31st, 2012) ̶ Arizona State University and Intel Corp. recently renewed a joint commitment to help improve higher education and technological development in Vietnam.
Working with the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training, the partners have reached an agreement to expand the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP).
