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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.

On Friday, December 16th, 2011, U.S. and Vietnamese leaders gathered at Arizona State University to discuss how to transform higher education in Vietnam. ASU President Michael Crow welcomed Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training Vice Minister Nguyen Vinh Hien, along with several industry and academic leaders, and engaged in a dynamic discussion on higher education strategies, challenges and opportunities.

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.

HCMC – Intel has pledged to continue to fund US$5-7 million for the second phase of Higher Education Engineering Alliance Program (HEEAP) which costs around US$24 million in total.

However, the Ministry of Education and Training and the General Department of Vocational Training have to pay 50% for the project, said Rick Howarth, general manager of Intel Products Vietnam, in a meeting with HCMC chairman Le Hoang Quan on Wednesday.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (May 20, 2011) – Danaher, a Washington, D.C. based science and technology company, today announced that its test and measurement subsidiaries, Tektronix, Fluke and Keithley, have joined the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) with a $300,000 donation of laboratory test equipment and cash scholarships for faculty training.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam(April 18, 2011) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Arizona State University (ASU) and Intel Corp. announced today a $2-million expansion of a program to improve higher education and technological development in Vietnam. The program, called Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program or HEEAP, was developed jointly with the Government of Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City, April 15, 2011 - Siemens today announced an in-kind software grant with a commercial value of US$71 million to the Higher Education Engineering Alliance Program (HEEAP). The in-kind software grant, provided by Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, will help universities develop the next generation of Vietnamese engineers.

On April 14, 2011, Ho Chi Minh University of Industry, Cao Thang Technical College, Ho Chi Minh City Vocational College of Technology, Intel, USAID and Arizona State University signed the MOU for the Vocational Technology Education Alliance Program. Total investment for this program is around USD 2million and Intel’s investment is around USD 1 million. Prof. Dr.

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.

Authored by By Richard Nyberg

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam—Just as Vietnam eyes prospects for high-tech economic growth, USAID has launched a partnership between U.S. academia and industry and Vietnam’s technical schools to enhance the quality of engineering education at the latter.