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Professional development

We offer:

• credit courses that can help meet your professional needs, and
• the opportunity for you to work with us to create a customized credit course for professional training.

Credit courses

If you wish to acquire new skills but don't have time to invest in a degree or certificate program, consider enrolling in one of our for-credit courses.

Engineering professionals might consider enrolling in:

• SYSEN 1100 Getting Design Right: A Systems Approach (Summer)
• SYSEN 5110 Applied Systems Engineering (Fall)
• SYSEN 5210 Systems Architecture, Behavior, and Optimization (Spring)
• SYSEN 5310 Systems Engineering for the Design and Operation of Reliable Systems (Fall)
• CEE 6910 Principles of Project Leadership (Spring)
• CEE 6970 Risk Analysis and Management (Spring)
• ECE 4450 Computer Networks and Telecommunications (Fall)
• NBA 5070 Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers (Fall)

Communicators might consider enrolling in:

• AEM 2400 Marketing (Summer)
• AEM 2400 Marketing (Winter)
• COMM 2720 Principles of Public Relations and Advertising (Summer)

Business and finance professionals might consider enrolling in:

• AEM 2400 Marketing (Summer)
• AEM 2400 Marketing (Winter)
• ECON 1100 Introductory Microeconomics (Summer)
• ECON 1100 Introductory Microeconomics (Winter)
• COMM 2720 Principles of Public Relations and Advertising (Winter)
• ILRST/STSCI 2100 Introductory Statistics (Summer)
• NBA 5910 Business in Emerging Markets (Winter)
• NBA 5991 Business in the European Union (Summer)

Healthcare professionals might consider enrolling in:

• NS 1150 Nutrition, Health, and Society (Summer)

Customized professional training

One of the great universities of the world, Cornell is home to noted scholars and researchers in the broadest possible range of disciplines.

Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions works to link corporate leaders with these scholars and all parts of the university to develop intensive, focused, and effective programs to help meet your organization's needs in a rapidly changing environment.

These programs can take place at Cornell, at corporate sites, in segments at various locations, or in multiple locations though distance learning technologies.

A leader in distance learning

With its long tradition of extension and outreach, Cornell has been a pioneer in the use of distance learning technologies and a leader in providing the highest quality content to companies and organizations throughout the world. Whether you want to enhance productivity, reduce the cost of doing business, or build skills and knowledge, our experienced and knowledgeable staff and faculty can help you develop a program to make it happen.

We will help you:

• identify the best faculty members for your purpose (that is, people with the right knowledge and research interests who are also dynamic, focused teachers and who understand the concerns of business and industry);
• facilitate an open, substantive planning dialogue between those faculty members and the essential people from the corporation; and
• design a program that makes the most of the faculty, the participants, the time, and the place.

Please contact our Executive Education department at:

Executive Education Programs
Cornell University
B20 Day Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853-2801
Telephone: 607.255.7259
Fax: 607.255.9697
E-mail: cusp@cornell.edu

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