By addressing two critical barriers that are known to prevent U.S. undergraduate engineering students from considering study abroad, namely, fitting the experience into highly structured engineering degree curricula and defraying the cost, recruitment of students can be quite satisfactory. Based on the unequal exchange of E.U. students participating in the program, it appears that the time to Bachelor's degree completion can be an important aspect for E.U. participation. With regard to the cost, the differential cost of participation compared to the students staying at their home university can be quite low (a few thousand dollars per year), making this type of program potentially affordable to sustain by providing small scholarships r stipends to the students. Finally, by partnering with foreign universities, OSU and UdS have been able to leverage their resources and provide the opportunity for students to pursue a Bachelor'sdegree in materials science or mechanical engineering, respectively.