J&J and ConEd executives join Stevens’ online learning board
Kee Meng Yeo and Luther Tai welcomed to WebCampus board of directors
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Two of the nation’s prominent corporate learning executives—Luther Tai of Consolidated Edison (ConEd) Company and Kee Meng Yeo of Johnson & Johnson (J&J)—have joined the Board of Directors of Stevens Institute of Technology’s online learning unit, WebCampus.Stevens. The two industry leaders complement a notable group of current board members, drawn from Fortune 500 companies as well as from some of the country’s top universities.
Luther Tai, is a lawyer and engineer with more than 35 years of utility industry experience. As vice president of central services, he is responsible for the New York utility’s vital support services. Tai oversees the company’s learning center and its corporate university, among other essential corporate activities. Tai joined ConEd in 1970 and has held various managerial posts, including chief planning engineer, chief forecast engineer, and director of corporate planning. The multi-talented executive holds a doctor of education degree from the University of Pennsylvania , a MBA from Cornell, a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School , a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Columbia , and bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School ’s Advanced Management Program.
Kee Meng Yeo is director of J&J’s eUniversity & Educational Technology. Yeo heads the company’s first virtual corporate university—the widely acclaimed J&J eUniversity—stressing collaborative learning and development worldwide. He not only manages the online learning center, but is also credited with conceiving it. Before joining J&J, he worked in a number of multinational organizations, including Pharmacia, Monsanto Dow Chemicals and Olivetti. Yeo is a graduate of the National University of Singapore where he received his BA in business administration. He earned his master’s in organizational psychology from Capella University and is a graduate of Cornell’s Management Executive Development Program.
In addition to several Stevens faculty members, the WebCampus Board includes senior executives from Hewlett-Packard, Interpool, Microsoft and Thomson Learning. University and professional society representatives are from IEEE, MIT, New England College of Finance and the University of Rochester .
About WebCampus
WebCampus.Stevens is the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology. Launched five years ago, it among the most prominent online graduate programs in the country, honored by two distinguished awards—the Sloan Foundation prize for the “best online university” in the nation and United States Distance Learning Association 21st Century Best Practices Award. Since its inception, more than 8,000 students from 43 states and 40 countries around the globe have enrolled in its online graduate courses. The program offers more than 130 online courses delivered by more than 100 faculty.
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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