Abstract
Engineering education increasingly emphasizes humanitarian design—creating solutions that address global challenges while serving human needs. Delivering quality engineering education at scale requires strategic partnerships between universities across regions, enabling student and faculty mobility while maintaining academic standards. As institutions expand international partnerships through transnational education models, ensuring quality becomes more complex, particularly as artificial intelligence transforms program delivery, assessment, and accreditation.
This panel examines how universities can establish and sustain effective engineering partnerships while maintaining rigorous quality assurance. With focus on transnational education models and regional intra-Asia mobility, panelists from Southeast Asia, North America, and Indonesia will share approaches to structuring partnerships that facilitate meaningful mobility and exchange while preserving quality. Panelists will explore how humanitarian design principles guide partnership objectives, how quality assurance mechanisms adapt to hybrid and virtual delivery in transnational contexts, and how AI can support quality oversight. The discussion addresses practical strategies for managing multi-institutional partnerships, student learning outcomes assessment, accreditation considerations for TNE delivery, regional mobility frameworks, and ensuring that engineering education serves both workforce needs and social responsibility.
Learning objectives
- Examine current approaches to structuring transnational education models and engineering partnerships that facilitate regional intra-Asia mobility while maintaining quality assurance
- Understand how humanitarian design principles inform partnership objectives and guide institutional collaboration in transnational engineering education
- Explore practical quality assurance mechanisms for transnational education delivery, including assessment strategies for hybrid and virtual delivery in regional partnerships
- Discover how institutions across Asia-Pacific and North America are implementing TNE partnerships and regional mobility frameworks that advance engineering excellence and social responsibility
- Identify strategies for establishing effective intra-Asia regional mobility pathways and leveraging technology and AI to enhance quality oversight across TNE partnerships without compromising institutional autonomy.
Target audience
Transnational education leaders, international education directors, engineering program deans and faculty, and STEM professionals seeking to establish quality-assured transnational engineering partnerships and regional mobility frameworks across Asia-Pacific institutions.