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Creating New Habits

Creating New Habits. Integrating Engineering into Vietnamese Society Vu Tu Thanh – Vietnam Representative. Outline. Problems Solutions. Challenges to engineering education in Vietnam. Little inspiration and incentive from early on Family School Society Perceived high costs For schools

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Creating New Habits

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  1. Creating New Habits Integrating Engineering into Vietnamese Society Vu Tu Thanh – Vietnam Representative

  2. Outline • Problems • Solutions

  3. Challenges to engineering education in Vietnam • Little inspiration and incentive from early on • Family • School • Society • Perceived high costs • For schools • For students

  4. Challenges to engineering education in Vietnam • Gender factor • Traditional thinking: girls not naturally fit for engineering • Job environment unfavorable to engineers • Gaps between school training and actual job environment: 2 extremes • Inadequate training => needs retraining • Adequate training but engineers have to compromise under pressure from corrupt practices

  5. Some suggestions • Raise awareness about engineering: communication and outreach efforts • Recruiting more girls into engineering by both educating society, including girls themselves, and positive discrimination • Better public and corporate policies to protect and incentivize engineers who uphold professional integrity

  6. Contributions by private sector • HEEAP activities • Company exhibit/museum • Internship programs • Sharing employer best practices (Best employer for engineers award)

  7. How US-ASEAN Business Council can help

  8. How US-ASEAN Business Council can help • 21st Century Fox • 3M • Abbott Laboratories • Accenture • Amgen • Amway • APCO Worldwide • Autodesk • Bank of America • Baxter • BD • Bloomberg • Boeing • Bose • Brown-Forman • C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. • Cisco • Covidien • Darden • Dell, Inc. • Deloitte & Touche LLP • Diageo • DuPont • Eastman • eBay • Eli Lilly & Co. • Emerson • EY • FleishmanHillard • Forbes Media

  9. How US-ASEAN Business Council can help • Fragomen • Halliburton • Harley Davidson Motor Company • Hills Companies • Honeywell • Intelsat • Intuit • John Deere • Johnson & Johnson • JP Morgan Chase • KBR • Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts • KPMG • Levi Strauss & Co. • Lockheed Martin Corporation • Mars • Mattel, Inc. • McDermott International Inc. • McGraw-Hill • McKinsey & Company • McLarty Associates • Mead Johnson Nutrition • Medtronic • Merck • Mondelēz • Monsanto • MorganStanley • NIKE, Inc. • Novartis • Pepsi

  10. How US-ASEAN Business Council can help • PricewaterhouseCoopers • Raytheon • Rockwell Automation • Rio Tinto • RMA Group • Rockwell Collins • Sanofi Aventis • Syngenta Corporation • State Street • TE Connectivity • United Technologies Corporation • Wal-Mart • Western Union • Westinghouse • White & Case LLP • Yum! Restaurants, Inc.

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