The Cooper Union's Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers provides admitted participants the opportunity to update their skills and work in their chosen fields by offering them professional courses and job placement assistance free of charge for those who qualify. The program includes courses in information technology as well as chemical, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering. All courses are scheduled around the needs of working professionals during weekday evenings and weekends during the day.

The Cooper Union’s Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers is now managed by the Workforce Development Department at CAMBA. Cooper Union will continue to provide all academic services under the leadership of Professor Fred L. Fontaine.

All students of the Cooper Union’s Retraining Program who are seeking employment now have access to CAMBA’s Workforce Development Services, including:

• Individually assigned Job Developers dedicated to student’s job placement
• Access to Fast Track, a 3 day career readiness class with relevant content for new immigrant professionals
• Access to over 70 CAMBA programs offering support in the areas of housing, family support, legal services, economic development, youth services and health

Re-Training Course Selection for Fall 2016 (September through December)

• Analytical Chemistry: Spectroscopy
• Green Building Guidelines and Environmental Safety
• Heating, Ventilation,  Air-Condition and Refrigeration
• Building Operation, Maintenance and Safety Regulations
• National Electrical Code (NEC) & its applications
• Bridge, Highway, Tunnels and Buildings: Professional Practice for Cost Estimating
• ASIC Structural Steel Design
• ACI Structural Concrete Design
• Introduction to AutoCAAD for Engineers
• Advanced AutoCAD and Revit
• Data Architecture Principles, Data Structure and SQL
• Java Programming
• Microsoft.NET and C#
• Software Quality Assurance - Manual Testing
• Software Quality Assurance - Automated Testing
• Linux (UNIX) Administration
• Android Software Development

Eligibility

• Be a permanent resident of the U.S.
• Have a work permit
• Have professional experience in their field
• Demonstrate a financial need

For more information, visit The Cooper Union Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers

For registration, email cooperunionretraining@camba.org