University of Detroit Mercy is partnering with two prestigious universities in China to bring a cohort of more than 70 students to Detroit Mercy in the fall. The goal: to study in Detroit Mercy’s state-of-the-art labs such as the Center for Automotive Systems Engineering Education (CASEE) with exceptional faculty, earn their bachelor degree and/or their master’s degree.
“This gives us a lot of name recognition in China” said Shuvra Das, professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of International Programs for the College of Engineering & Science. “Other schools working with Chinese universities include Rutgers, Michigan, NYU and Duke. In China we have the same name recognition and stature as those schools.”
The Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) will send approximately 50 students and Yancheng Institute of Technology (YIT) will send more than 20 students.
The BUCT students will study Robotics and Mechatronic Systems, while the YIT students will study Mechanical Engineering.
The BUCT program and YIT programs are similar, but have some significant differences tailored to each school’s interests. For both programs, the students will have studied for three years at their home institution in China, before completing the senior year of their undergraduate degrees at Detroit Mercy.
For BUCT students, Detroit Mercy faculty have been traveling to China to teach some of the courses in the program and those students will earn Detroit Mercy bachelor’s degrees.
YIT students will transfer back the senior year credits taken at Detroit Mercy to complete their bachelor’s degrees with YIT.
Both BUCT and YIT students will then stay on to complete Detroit Mercy master’s degrees.
Creating partnerships with Chinese universities to identify cohorts has taken years of work behind the scenes. Chi-Dar Lin, Detroit Mercy’s director of Asian Student Enrollment Programs, has led this effort.
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