Adam Trumbour isn't your average engineering student. Although most in his major don't travel abroad, he studied in England and worked in France.

Now's he working to ensure more engineering students will have experiences like his.

Trumbor planned the first international engineering fair in the Hammond Building's Kunkle Lounge, which was held Tuesday afternoon. Trumbour said he wants students to know how beneficial studying and working abroad is for their personal and career goals.

"I wish more engineering students would be able to share the experience we had," Trumbour (senior-architectural engineering) said.

Colby Cushing said he'd been looking for international opportunities and now he knows he's going to find what he wants.

"Now it's just a matter of what," Cushing (junior-aerospace engineering) said.

Posters from various international programs lined the lounge, full of information for engineering students wishing to travel abroad.

Trumbour said the engineering faculty wants engineers to have a more global education.

Thomas Carolus, a professor from Germany now on sabbatical in the U.S., said he recognizes the value of international education.

"I want to do everything I can to get other students abroad," Carolus said. Carolus studied abroad at Georgia Tech when he was an undergraduate student and enjoyed it. Now he's hoping Penn State students will be interesting in traveling to his university -- the University of Siegen in Germany.

Students attending the fair were also treated to an eco-friendly international meal hosted by the Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW).

"It couples with the whole multicultural aspect of what we're trying to do here," Trumbour said.

The international meal will help fund various ESW projects, including a portable solar generator and energy audits for homes in the community, ESW project manager and webmaster Alex Devaux said.

"It's important to raise awareness of sustainability, especially in engineering," Devaux (junior-agricultural and biological engineering) said. "We live on a finite planet with finite resources."