The globalization of engineering training is hindered by: language barriers, intellectual property protection issues, high costs of sending instructors overseas, and complexity of overseas training operations management.

In order to overcome these obstacles and reach out to industries, engineers, and all other stakeholders overseas, the GMET Global Training Program developed a Global Training Super Kit (SK).

The main objective of the SK is to combine Internet, portable computing, multimedia, and other pedagogic technical components, as well as the expertise of cutting edge subject matter experts, to develop comprehensive course materials. Based on these materials, ASME has created three types of legally protected intellectual properties:

• GMET Global Training Program Combined Training,
• courseware VCDs
• textbook(s)

The Combined Training offers abundant course materials for trainees to read, excise, and discuss, and an efficient training online management system to enable them to access these materials anywhere and anytime. All the materials are pre-structured so that both the instructors and the trainees know what to do every week. What’s more, the contents of the course materials are constantly researched, reviewed, and updated by the chief instructors of each course so that they can keep breath with the developments of global engineering and technology management. The courseware VCDs contains video and audio components of chief instructor’s lectures of the courses, interactive functions of the training activities. They will further aid the teaching and learning activities of the GMET Global Training Program.

Another underlying principle of the SK is to exploit the principle of both “economy of scale” and “economy of scope”. By so doing, the GMET training program can offer industries and all other stakeholders an effective training solution for global management for engineering and technology at a fraction of the cost if they develop it by themselves. To become an authorized training provider for the GMET Global Training, please go to Authorized Training.