Student and Faculty Exchanges






	APPLY NOW

	WELCOME TO BTC
	DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
	INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
	INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES
	CUSTOMIZED CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
	PROGRAMS ABROAD FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS
	STUDENT & FACULTY EXCHANGES
	CONTINUING & COMMUNITY EDUCATION
	STUDENT SERVICES & RESOURCES

	HOME ONLINE SERVICES BTC FOUNDATION SEARCH INDEX CONTACT US

PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION

DEGREES & CERTIFICATES

Home > Degree/Certificate Programs > Student and Faculty Exchanges

Select Text Size A A A

Bellingham Technical College joined the Transatlantic Technology and Training Alliance (TA3) in 2002. TA3 is a membership consortium of leading community and technical colleges in the US, Europe and South Africa. TA3 promotes two-year college efforts to support their regional economies, and promotes the value and importance of a global perspective on community and technical college missions. This consortium helps facilitate activities related to "the exchange of experience and good practice, joint development activities and exchanges of students and college staff."

International exchanges are exceptional experiences for professional-technical students, faculty and staff, Exchanges for college students and faculty have been routine in the United States for many years, but few have focused on professional technical education and even fewer on international worksites. Obtaining global competence is important in our current workforce. It is very common for Americans to work for an international company, for their company to do business globally either selling to or receiving products manufactured outside the U.S., and/or for co-workers or supervisors to be from other countries. Being able to work within a global community and economy is an important skill for all of our future. There was a great benefit in the exchange of teaching and technical information among faculty.

The positive experiences of these exchanges have solidified the College's commitment to maintaining these partnerships and providing activities and opportunities for student learning, growth, and leadership through international professional-technical exchanges.

County	Year	College	Program area/ Type of Exchange
Denmark	2003	EUC Syd	Instrumentation -EUC Syd Students
Finland	2004	Tampere	Culinary Arts - Tampere Staff & Faculty
Finland	2005	Tampere	Culinary Arts - Tampere Students
Finland		Tampere	Culinary Arts - BTC Faculty Michael Baldwin
Denmark	2005	EUC Syd	Diesel - EUC Syd - BTC Faculty Jeff Curtis
Germany	2005	Berlin - Siemens Plant	Instrumentation - BTC Faculty Tony Kuphaldt
Denmark	2005	EUC Vest	Welding - EUC Vest Faculty
Denmark	2006	EUC Vest	Mechanical EUC Vest Faculty & Students
Denmark	2006	EUC Vest	BTC Students & Faculty: Diesel-Jeff Curtis, & Welding - Jere Donnelly

Admissions
Located in College Services
Phone: (360) 752-8345
Email: admissions@btc.ctc.edu

Degree and Certificate Program Openings

View our Continuing and Community Education Classes

Publications

  Catalog

  Fall Schedule
  (Sept. 18 - Dec. 14)

home

online services

index