Global engineer: a springboard for the next decade

Over the last decade, major engineering organizations have been competing to attract the best engineering students. For instance, Shell need top-class Project Managers and Project Engineers to fulfill this ambition; not only to execute their current projects but also to have an eye on future ventures needing to be developed in an equally safe and sustainable manner. Managing in today’s environment provides many challenges and project engineers will be confronted with situations which challenge the traditional ways engineering projects have been managed. Terms such as responsive graduate engineer and innovative engineer are increasing in popularity, however, dealing with the mutual inconsistency these two terms provides a challenge to most of today’s global engineering organizations. In spite of recent extensive research, there has been little consideration given to how to develop a global project engineering curriculum. This examined how a global project engineering curriculum should be developed to address needs of global engineers. Using two case studies, the results have been summarized under the following headings of: defining the process of developing a global engineering curriculum and the most important factors for successful implementation of a global project engineering curriculum. This provided a comprehensive assessment of factors that will influence curriculum development in project engineering.