Professional engineers partner with Stevens’ online learning unit
Stevens to deliver online graduate education and training to NSPE members
HOBOKEN , N.J. — The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the principal association of the nation’s professional engineers, announced this week an education and training partnership with WebCampus, the online learning unit of Stevens Institute of Technology. The agreement calls for Stevens to provide NSPE members with discounts on its advanced online degree programs and training courses.
The partnership with Stevens is part of the society’s role in providing continuing education opportunities for its members in 53 state and territorial societies and more than 500 chapters. NSPE already offers a wide range of continuing education options to those who need to fulfill licensure requirements. WebCampus will provide yet another education vehicle.
The 50,000-member society, founded in 1934, promotes engineering licensure and ethics as well as enhancing the image of engineers. It advocates and protects professional engineers’ legal rights at national and state levels and for members.
“Our partnership with Stevens will help address the needs of our members who want to earn additional degrees or certificates in specialty areas,” said NSPE director of education Mary Maul. “For busy engineers with little spare time, Stevens WebCampus is the perfect alternative for NSPE members who don’t have the time to sit in a classroom.”
Recognized as the “best online university” by the Sloan Foundation, WebCampus currently offers more than 130 courses, allowing students to complete an MBA in Technology Management, 12 different master’s degree and 33 graduate certificate programs in science, technology and management. This year, WebCampus was given the 21st Century Best Practices Award in higher education by the US Distance Learning Association. To encourage members to enroll in the school’s online graduate programs, Stevens offers members rebates off its regular graduate tuition.
NSPE members join nearly 900,000 other society members who participate in WebCampus partnership programs. Eight other associations, including internationally prominent groups—IEEE, ASME, AICHE, ACM, GWEC, NECA, AACE, and SNAME—have previously concluded agreements with Stevens. NSPE is the ninth association to join the online program. For more information, please contact Mary Maul, NSPE’s director of education, at (703) 684-2833.
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 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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