The Cooper Union Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers at CAMBA assists highly skilled immigrant professionals who are underemployed or unemployed gain access to higher paying jobs through training and job placement assistance.  The program includes courses in information technology and chemical, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering.  Courses are scheduled around the needs of working professionals and offered evenings and weekends.

Since its inception in 1987, the Retraining  program for Immigrant Engineers has taught over 4,500 students and placed more than 60% of them in jobs.

The program offers introductory and advanced courses designed to bring participants' engineering, computer programming, and business skills up-to-date.  Courses include:

• Analytical Chemistry
• Green Building Guidelines & Environmental Safety
• Building Operation, Maintenance & Safety Regulation
• Heating, Ventilation, Air-Condition and Safety Regulation (HVAC)
• National Electrical Code (NEC) and Its Applications
• AISC Structural Steel Design
• ACI Structural Concrete Design
• Introduction to AutoCad for Engineers
• Advanced AutoCad and Revit
• Building Cost Estimating and Bridge, Highway, Railroad Engineering
• Linux (Unix) Administration
• Data Architecture Principles, Data Structure and SQL
• Java Programming
• Microsoft .Net and C#
• Software Quality Assurance – Manual and Automated Testing
• Android Software Development

Here is the current semester course schedule

Students can access CAMBA's Workforce Development Services, which include resume preparartion, mock interviews,  career advising, facilitated professional networking and job placement.  CAMBA pursues a sector-based approach to job development, with employer-partners who invest time, effort  and resources to integrate newly trained job seekers into  their workforce.

Eligibility:

The program welcomes all work-authorized immigrants, seeking retraining in the fields of engineering and information technology.  To be considered for the program, applicants must:

• Be work-authorized in the U.S.
• Have educational credentials and professional experience in  engineering, chemistry, information technology or a related field
• Demonstrate a financial need

For more information,  visit Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers or call 718.226.0437 for more information and application instructions.