Courses

Our on-going challenge is to create mechanisms to productively balance academic and industrial interest and find ways to make the interplay between the two different cultures fruitful as well as determine how best to deliver collaborative education to distant learners who may never be together at the same place or same time. We have used a novel education design approach to develop a set of curricular modules, which are focused on educational needs determined by industry and also are sufficiently academic in character as to earn graduate credit if desired. A module will consist of a set of related educational experiences (including but not limited to graduate courses). Those persons completing specified requirements are awarded certificates that can also be applied toward graduate degrees if desired by the learner or can stand alone as recognition of significant educational achievement. These modules are organized around particular needs for specialized, advanced training in specific, industrially important technical areas.