Engaging Engineering Students in Cultural Diversity and Unity Studies

The increase in the number of international students in the universities worldwide has led to new challenges and opportunities in engineering education. Despite the created multicultural environment, its participants still tend to congregate with peers from their native countries, especially in the engineering programs, where more attention is traditionally paid to research experiments and work-based experience, rather than to communication strategies. The paper aims at developing new strategies of engaging engineering students in intercultural communication through participation in cultural diversity and unity studies