With the current high rate of contagiousness and infection from Omicron, we have made the decision to conduct all January classes remotely and to require, with limited exceptions, all employees without essential on-campus duties during this period to work from home through January 28th.  For more information on Covid-19 and the start of spring semester, please use this link to our Covid Response page.  

Course List & Schedule

Spring 2022

The schedule is tentative and subject to change

Most courses take place once a week. Duration varies from eight to twelve weeks. Courses have different start dates. Participants are required to take at least one technical course and at least one Communications and Culture seminar. 

The Built Environment: Structures & Buildings

Course Title

Day

Time

 Start/End Date

AISC Structural Steel Design

ACI Structural Concrete Design

 Saturday 12–4 pm

Mar. 5–Apr. 30

Advanced AutoCAD and Revit

 Tuesday 6–9 pm Mar. 1–May 17

Introduction to AutoCAD

 Wednesday 6–9 pm Mar. 9–Apr. 27

Building Cost Estimating & Bridge, Highway, Railroad Eng.

 Thursday 6–8:12 pm Mar. 3–May 12

OSHA 30 for Construction *

 Monday 6–10 pm Mar. 7–Apr. 25

 

Environmental Engineering & Sustainability

Course Title

Day

Time

 Start/End Date

Data Architecture Principles, Data Structure and SQL

 Monday 6–8:30 pm Mar. 14–May 16

Green Building Guidelines, Environmental Safety

 Tuesday 6–10 pm Mar. 8–May 3

Python

 Saturday 12–2:15 pm Mar. 5–May 14

 

Operations Infrastructure & Transportation

Course Title

Day

Time

 Start/End Date

Advanced AutoCAD and Revit

 Tuesday 6–9 pm Mar. 1–May 17

Building Cost Estimating & Bridge, Highway, Railroad Eng.

 Thursday 6–8:12 pm Mar. 3–May 12

Building Operation, Maintenance, & Safety Regulations

 Sunday 10 am–1 pm Mar. 6–May 15

Python

 Saturday 12–2:15 pm Mar. 5–May 14

 

Data Infrastructure & Security

Course Title

Day

Time

 Start/End Date

C# Programming

 Sunday 10 am–12 pm Mar. 6–May 15

Cyber Security

 Wednesday 6–9 pm Mar. 2–May 4

Data Architecture Principles, Data Structure and SQL

 Monday 6–8:30 pm Mar. 14–May 16

Java Programming

 Sunday 12–2 pm Mar. 6–May 15

Linux (Unix) Administration

 Saturday 9 am–12 pm Mar. 5–May 14

Python

 Saturday 12–2:15 pm Mar. 5–May 14

Software Quality Assurance–Manual Testing

Software Quality Assurance–Automated Testing

 Tuesday and Friday 6–9 pm Mar. 8–May 9

 

Communications and Culture Seminars 

Course Title

Day

Time

 Start/End Date

Presenting Topics in Engineering

 Wednesday 6:00-7:30pm TBD

Presenting Topics in Engineering

 Thursday 6:00-7:30pm TBD

Shaping a Career Narrative

 Wednesday 6:00-7:30pm TBD

Shaping a Career Narrative

 Thursday 6:00-7:30pm TBD

Developing & Implementing Technical Vocabulary

 Saturday 10:00-11:30am TBD

Issues in Engineering: Local Interventions and Problem-Solving in Our Communities 

 Saturday 3:00-4:30pm TBD

* OSHA 30 is open to mechanical, electrical, civil or architecture professionals with at least 3 years of construction project management experience. This course must be taken in combination with other classes in the student’s specialty.

Sponsors

The Retraining program is made possible through generous donations from the Robin Hood Foundation and Con Edison. The Retraining Program would also like to thank our individual donors for support.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.