Undergraduate Certificate

“Global diversity is staring us in the face. The more global our company becomes, the more critical our cross-cultural awareness, skills, and behaviors are. If you succeed at educating students to operate in globally diverse environments, we succeed too.”
— Alma Vigo-Morales, Agilent Technologies

The engineering profession has become one in which its practitioners need to be competent in developing systemic solutions with global impact. So whether your career aspirations involve small projects in developing communities, or mega-projects like the expansion of the Panama Canal or developing the next generation aircraft for civil aviation, it's likely that you will be working in a multidisciplinary and international context.

Purpose of the Certificate
The purpose of the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Engineering is to expand students' understanding of how to operate in an international context from an engineering perspective. This translates to the capacity to work in either an international team from within an office located domestically or internationally. These work environments necessitate that students understand multinational contexts as well as local office and nongovernmental agency contexts.

Admission Requirements
To enroll in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Engineering Certificate, students must:

  • be admitted to the College of Engineering and Applied Science;
  • be a student in good standing with a minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA; and
  • complete an undergraduate certificate enrollment form and submit it to the program manager (obtain this form from Robyn Sandekian).

Curriculum Requirements - revised September 2014*,  new courses added April, September, and October 2015
The Undergraduate Certificate in Global Engineering includes:

In addition, certificate students must complete all requirements for their respective engineering majors.

Students are responsible for identifying and completing course prerequisites prior to enrolling in courses listed to meet certificate requirements.

Upon Completion
A certificate advising form should be completed and signed by the student and the student's engineering major advisor. The form must be turned into the Director of International Programs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at least one month prior to graduation.

For additional information, please contact:

Robyn Sandekian, M.S., Ed.S., Ph.D. student
Managing Director, Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities™;
Program Manager, Undergraduate Certificate in Global Engineering, and
Graduate Certificate in Engineering for Developing Communities™
sandekian@colorado.edu
303-735-6708

*Course options were expanded to include coursework in additional areas.  The previously listed Economics courses will still count towards the certificate, however they required extensive pre-requisites so are no longer shown here.  Students may petition to count other courses by contacting the program’s manager, Robyn Sandekian (Sandekian@colorado.edu) and providing a course description.