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During the summer of 2016, two cohorts of engineering professors from Vietnam participated in workshops on outcomes-based assessment and active learning techniques at ASU.

Huong Nguyen is a young woman actively promoting STEM education in Vietnam through her work at ASU. Recently, she co-authored a paper with ASU’s Scott Danielson and Kathy Wigal that was reviewed by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Her paper, “Comparison of AUN-QA and ABET Accreditation,” was published in the proceedings of the ASEE’s 123rd Annual Conference and Exposition.

HEEAP designed a one-day workshop for the University of Danang - University of Science and Technology (UD-DUT) that focused on training faculty to leverage Learning Management Systems (LMS) for blended learning and teaching.

On September 12, 2016, a delegation of government officials from the Vinh Phuc Province in Vietnam came to visit ASU in follow up to an MOU that was signed between the province and ASU in 2013. Since the signing of the MOU, new government officials had been elected and were delighted to discover that ASU has a very active presence in Vietnam, including a satellite office in Ho Chi Minh City.

This summer more than a hundred students and faculty participated in the first annual Mini Car Racing Contest at Cao Thang Technical College (CTTC) in Ho Chi Minh City. Twenty two student teams built cars to run in the races — all vying for the first place prize of 5,000,000 VND. After an intense qualifying round, the 12 best teams advanced to the finals where the top four teams each took home a cash prize.

A leadership conference and exhibition at the University of Danang drew several hundred attendees from across Southeast Asia as the first event in the Women in STEM Leadership Program — part of the Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology Alliance. BUILD-IT, which was announced by President Barack Obama during his trip to Vietnam in June, is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

A project to inspire innovative technology solutions to some of Southeast Asia’s most complex agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries challenges, the YSEALI World of Food Innovation Challenge, was announced in February by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).

Ms. Thanh Ta

Thanh serves as the business specialist for Arizona State University in Vietnam. She is responsible for accounting, budgeting and other financial functions. She also supports the management team with management reports, disbursement of funds and the resolution of budget concerns.

During the Spring semester of 2016, the Global Outreach and Extended Education program from Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering hosted 23 academic fellows representing all ten of the ASEAN countries for a fiveweek institute on social entrepreneurship and economic development. The social entrepreneurship and economic development program at ASU was developed by a collaborative team of professionals from the Fulton Schools of Engineering and the College of Public Service and Community Solutions as a part of a grant from the U.S.