School of Continuing Professional Education launched at Stevens

HOBOKEN, N.J. - Stevens Institute of Technology has announced the launch of The School of Continuing Professional Education - a new unit offering a wide range of educational and training programs in engineering, management and science for professionals in business, industry, government and elsewhere. Designed to deliver tailored, need-to-know programs worldwide, the new school is a response to emerging demands for intensive courses in dynamic fields such as cybersecurity, wireless communications, and project management. These and other critical fields are those in which Stevens faculty have already achieved global leadership.

The School of Continuing Professional Education will also extend a number of existing Stevens programs that have distinguished the university as a major force.

WebCampus, the Institute's online learning unit, winner of this year's Sloan Award as the Best Online University in the nation, will come under the new school's umbrella, as will Stevens' Corporate Campus, where some of the country's top corporations - Verizon, Foster-Wheeler, Honeywell, Lockheed-Martin, and Boeing, among more than two dozen others - provide graduate education for their employees at sites in the New York/New Jersey region and elsewhere in the nation.

The School of Continuing Professional Education will collaborate closely with the deans and faculty in Stevens' academic schools - The Schaefer School of Engineering, The Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts, and The Howe School of Technology Management.

Robert Ubell has served since 2001 as Dean of Online Learning at Stevens. In his new role as Dean of the School of Continuing Professional Education, he will also direct online learning at Stevens. Before joining the university, Ubell held a number of posts in industry, including that of editor of the New York Academy of Sciences magazine, The Sciences; he also served as American publisher of Nature, the venerable British science weekly. Dean Ubell also heads the Sloan Greater New York City Online Learning Center which is located at Stevens.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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