Purdue Backgrounder
Purdue Backgrounder
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May 3, 2001 Purdue Continuing Engineering Education/GMWhat: Purdue University's Continuing Engineering Education department will offer a cooperative program with Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for engineers at General Motors. Employees who earn a master's degree in engineering from Purdue Continuing Engineering Education are then eligible to apply for admission to the MBA program from Kelley via distance-learning technology beginning in January 2002. CEE offers master's degrees in electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering as well master of science degrees in interdisciplinary engineering. CEE's Mission: "To be a strategic partner to the industries and engineers we serve by meeting their lifelong learning needs with programs of exceptional quality, content and delivery technology." Graduate Engineering Programs at Purdue: Employers ranked Purdue's graduate engineering third overall in U.S. News and World Report's 2001 survey. Purdue graduate engineering ranked 13 nationally and seventh among public universities. Agricultural and biological engineering ranked second; industrial engineering ranked third; civil engineering, fifth; aeronautical engineering, sixth; mechanical engineering, seventh; and electrical and computer engineering ninth. CEE's Corporate Clients: Last year, CEE brought Purdue engineering education to 200 locations in 31 states and two international locations. In addition to General Motors, CEE's corporate clients include many of the nation's top companies, including Cypress Semiconductor, Eli Lilly and Co., Ford, Federal Express, General Electric, IBM, McKinsey & Co. and Procter & Gamble Corp. CEE History: Purdue's Schools of Engineering have fulfilled the university's Land Grant College mission of what was originally called "extension, or carrying knowledge to the people" since the first dean of engineering began presenting a series of off-campus lectures in 1895. CEE began offering master's degrees in engineering in 1956, and the first off-campus student received a master’s degree in 1960. CEE has been delivering graduate-level classes via distance learning technology – such as satellite and videotape – to corporate clients since 1985 and to General Motors since 1986. In 1987, Purdue's satellite uplink came online, and CEE began offering graduate-level engineering courses via a satellite delivery system. CEE now also uses the Internet and the World Wide Web to deliver its distance-learning classes. Source: Ray Eberts, (765) 494-0212, eberts@ecn.purdue.edu Writer: J. Michael Lillich, (765) 494-2077, mlillich@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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