With careful planning and resourceful approaches, study abroad can fit perfectly into your undergraduate career.
Engineering students can take two approaches to study abroad.
One is to study engineering. The other is to take non-technical subjects, including language study, either to fulfill requirements or for personal enrichment. Both have their advantages and disadvantages which you must weigh when choosing an appropriate program. If your main goal is to learn something about how others outside the U.S. approach engineering, you have already defined your choices to a certain extent. To study engineering in a foreign educational institution generally means you must have an adequate command of that country's language, even though some of your reading might be done in English.