International School of Engineering Opens at the Technion

The Technion’s Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering has launched an international program in infrastructure and environmental engineering. The program will be conducted in English and is intended for students from abroad. This year, the first class started with 23 students and will be, in the words of Prof. Arnon Bentur, dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering: “the nucleus for attaining a vision of setting up an international school in all engineering fields at the Technion, within whose framework, within a decade, will be studying 1,000 students from all corners of the world.”

The four women students and 19 males come from 14 countries on five continents – North America (the US and Canada), South America (Uruguay and Peru), Europe (Italy, Denmark, France, Spain and Albania), Africa (South Africa, Ghana and Guinea) and Asia (China and India). 30% of the students in the Technion’s new International School are from developing countries.

Technion President Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig said that the event is a milestone in the annals of the Technion. “You will be proud to be the first class of this school,” he said turning to the students. “You are pioneers.”

Pictured (from right to left): Technion President Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Uri Dori and incoming Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie.