ASME Professional Development partners online with schools

ASME International's Professional Development Dept. is partnering with several universities to offer online courses leading to graduate certificates and degrees at a discount for ASME members.

These universities include New Jersey Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology and U.S. Open University.

ASME members will receive a 10 percent discount on tuition for these courses.

NJIT, Stevens and U.S. Open University offer degree programs, certificate programs and credit courses. The degree programs include master's degrees in Computing and Information Systems as well as a master's in Business Administration (MBA).

Certificate programs are offered in Computer Networking, E-Commerce, Elements of Computer Science, Information Systems Design and Development, Internet Applications Development, Object-Oriented Design, Practice of Technical Communications, Project Management, Technology Applications in Science Education, Telecommunications Management, Telecommunications Networking and Wireless Communications.

The partnerships also provide credit courses, such as Foundations of Senior Management: Managing People; Foundations of Senior Management: Organizations & Change; Organizational Behavior; Project Management; Managing; Computing: An Object-Oriented Introduction I; Computing: An Object-Oriented Introduction I and II (fast-track); Computing: Using an Object-Oriented Approach; Introducing Java; Learning in Cyberspace; Putting Computer Systems to Work With C++; Relational Database Systems; Software Engineering; The Net: Where It Came From, How It Works; and The Story of the PC.

For a complete list of the courses with their descriptions and to register, please check ASME's Web site at www.asme.org/pro_dev/institutions.html.

When you are ready to register for a course, click on "To Register" and follow the instructions through to the university's Web pages.

For more information about this partnership and/or the courses, please contact Kathy J. Warner at (212) 591-7411 (warnerk@asme. org) or Robin Jacobs at (212) 591-8013 (jacobsr@asme.org).

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