To fulfill his requirements for a master's degree in global manufacturing, Mitsuo Kuroda is working off campus–way off campus–at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology in Aachen, Germany.
It's so important to learn foreign culture.
BU's global manufacturing program focuses on solving industrial problems, and Kuroda is tackling several of them while in Aachen, including helping a medical device manufacturer analyze the global market for its newest product and choose a distribution partner to get that product to patients around the world.
"It's so important to learn foreign culture," says Kuroda, an employee of the Japanese technology firm Hitachi.
He chose the two-year global manufacturing program, he says, because it offered him the chance to study all three of his business interests–manufacturing, global marketing, and technology management–while experiencing two different business cultures.
You might say Kuroda is one kluges Kopfchen. (That's a German way of saying he's one smart guy!)
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A Multicultural Approach
To succeed in the global economy—an economy that is becoming increasingly borderless and dominated by multinational companies—tomorrow’s engineers must be able to work efficiently in multicultural teams. They must understand different engineering cultures and markets, and how to adapt products for use in varying environments. To train this new “global engineer,” Boston University has developed a master’s degree program in global manufacturing that provides students both engineering skills and business know-how and requires them to complete a portion of their coursework and research at our partner institution in Aachen, Germany.
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Our graduates are likely to be hired by international companies that value their ability to work well across borders, their superior technical skills and their knowledge of supply chains and global markets. We expect many of our graduates to hold jobs that involve international travel and interaction with their counterparts in other countries.
Why Study At BU?
When it comes to manufacturing, Boston University has always stood at the forefront. Our global manufacturing program is one of just a few such programs in the country, and it’s built on our longstanding and highly respected program in manufacturing engineering, also among the first of its kind when it was established. The global manufacturing program is housed in our Department of Mechanical Engineering, which is known for its strong sense of community and the personal attention students receive from faculty members.
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