Boeing selects Stevens for graduate online learning

HOBOKEN , N.J. — The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace company and the second largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, has selected WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, as a preferred provider for online graduate education for its nearly 160,000 employees worldwide.

Stevens also recently concluded similar agreements with two other Fortune 500 companies, Intel Corporation and Verizon Communications, Inc.

In collaboration with Boeing's Learning Together Division, Stevens’ WebCampus joins a select number of the nation's premier universities to offer graduate programs online to Boeing employees. By accessing links to the company’s website, personnel can now obtain information about Stevens’ online courses in engineering, management and science. Boeing’s global workforce can enroll in Stevens’ 31 graduate certificates and 12 master’s degrees from anywhere in the world.

As a preferred provider, WebCampus will also participate in the company's education fairs held in Washington , California , Pennsylvania and Missouri to bring awareness of Stevens’ graduate programs to Boeing’s workforce.

In addition to Boeing, Stevens provides 31 other global companies and government agencies, including Johnson & Johnson, Citigroup, Lockheed Martin and other Fortune 500 companies, with graduate education and training on its Hoboken campus, at corporate sites and online. WebCampus is the winner of the Sloan award as the “best online university” in the nation.

Boeing has been designing and manufacturing aircraft since 1916. During WWI, Boeing built training planes for the US Navy and began the first international airmail service. During WWII, Boeing produced such aircraft as the B-17 and B-29 bombers.

Boeing's commercial planes included the Model 314 Clipper, the Model 307 Stratoliner (with the first pressurized cabin), the 707 (the first successful jetliner) and 727. In the 1960s, it built rockets used in the Apollo space program. The company delivered the first 737 in 1967. The 747, the first jumbo jet, also went into production in the late 1960s. Efficient 757 and 767 models followed in the late 1970s. The company's wide-body 777 made its maiden flight in 1995. The long-range, super-efficient, mid-size 787 is due in 2008.

Boeing’s military aircraft include the F/A-18 Hornet, the F-15 Eagle, the C-17 Globemaster III transport and the AH-64D Apache helicopter. Boeing's space operations include communications satellites, missiles, the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle (with Lockheed).

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, 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 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 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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