New York, NY (March 5, 2015) – The New York State Office for New Americans (ONA) and The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering opened registration today for free professional courses and job placement assistance for high-skilled New Americans for the Spring 2015 semester.
This innovative public-private partnership with the Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers is part of ONA’s focus on developing and leveraging the professional skills of New Americans.
All participants must be permanent residents, have work authorization, have completed courses of study in their home country and be seeking retraining in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Eligible immigrants are able to enroll in introductory and high-technology courses designed to update participants’ engineering, computer programming, and business skills.
Classes are taught by The Cooper Union faculty and experts in the field and program offerings are flexible based on demand in the marketplace and needs of students. The Spring 2015 semester will start at the end of March.
List of courses for spring 2015 semester include:
• Analytical Chemistry: Chromatography and Spectroscopy
• Green Building Guidelines & Environmental Safety
• Heating, Ventilation, Air-Condition & Refrigeration
• Building Operation, Maintenance & Safety Regulations
• National Electrical Code (NEC) & its applications
• Bridge, Highway, Tunnels and Buildings: Professional Practice for Cost Estimating
• AISC Structural Steel Design
• ACI Structural Concrete Design
• Introduction to AutoCAD for engineers
• Advanced AutoCAD and Revit
• Linux (UNIX) Administration
• Data Architecture Principles, Data Structure and SQL
• Java Programming
• Microsoft .NET and C#
• Software Quality Assurance – Manual Testing
• Software Quality Assurance – Automated Testing
• Android Software Development
To get more information and check for available courses, please visit http://www.cooper.edu/immigrant-retraining. To schedule an appointment or to determine eligibility, please call 212-353-4349, Monday through Thursday (9:00am to 5:00pm) and Friday (9:00am to 2:00pm).
Related Images:
