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In May 2016, President Barack Obama made his first visit to Vietnam.

For the third year in a row, Arizona State University tops the list of “most innovative schools” in the nation, recognizing the university’s groundbreaking initiatives, partnerships, programs and research.

U.S. News and World Report has named ASU as the most innovative university all three years it has had the category. The widely touted set of annual rankings by the news magazine, which compares more than 1,500 institutions on a variety of metrics, was released today.

The Lac Hong University team defeated their Malaysia rivals on Sunday to win the 2017 Asia-Pacific robot contest (ABU Robocon 2017) on August 27 in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.

PANO-a team from Lac Hong University was crowned champions with an outright victory, known as APPARE, meaning splendid in Japanese. Japan and Thailand tied for third place. 

Arizona State University and the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) today announced a partnership to advance research and academic programs in science, engineering, technology and innovation (SETI) across Vietnam.

The SETI Alliance, which builds on existing, U.S. government-supported initiatives between ASU and MOST, coincides with Vietnam Prime Minister 

Building off the success of its first Maker Innovation Space in Ho Chi Minh City, the USAID Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology Alliance, better known as the BUILD-IT Alliance, has launched a second makerspace in Danang, Vietnam.

This month, BUILD-IT was honored to interview Phuong Nguyen, who was recently appointed to serve as an advisor on the Vietnam National Council on Education and Human Resources Development. As the former country director for the Vietnam Education Foundation, Nguyen played a key role in the implementation of VEF-sponsored research projects on undergraduate education in computer science, electrical engineering, physics and agricultural sciences in Vietnam. Nguyen earned her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Texas Tech University in 2005 and currently serves as the Vietnam country director for ASU, leading the university’s efforts of promoting STEM education throughout the country.

In an effort to provide an understanding of active learning and the maker pedagogy, ASU Engineering Professors Nadia Kellam and Brooke Coley held a workshop in Can Tho, Vietnam on July 18-20, 2017.

The USAID-sponsored development contest, Women Engineering Projects in Community Service, also known as WEPICS, held its final competition on Sunday, June 25, 2017 in Danang, Vietnam. The competition was collaboratively produced by Arizona State University, as a part of the BUILD-IT Alliance, Fablab Danang, University of Danang, Danang University of Science and Technology, Evergreen Labs and Microsoft. 

Representatives of ASU’s premier social entrepreneur program, Engineering Projects in Community Service, recently visited Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Hanoi to present one-day workshops focused on project-based learning combined with service learning and entrepreneurial mindset.

The award-winning program, known as EPICS for short, tasks student teams to design, build and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems for charities, schools and other not-for-profit organizations. Representatives Josh Loughman and Hope Parker taught more than 90 participants about the EPICS curriculum, the difference and similarities between EPICS and project-based learning, options for implementing EPICS at their university, how to best utilize Maker Spaces and time to test the process by building a prototype around stakeholder needs.

During the early summer of 2017, a cohort of Vietnamese engineering professors participated in workshops at Arizona State University on outcomes-based assessment and active learning techniques. This marked the last university cohort of the HEEAP program, which included faculty members from five different universities across Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Danang University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh University of Technical Education, Can Tho University and Hanoi University of Science and Technology.