STEM Outreach Programs

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STEM Days

Summer STEM

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STEM Days

STEM Days

Student Portfolios

Summer STEM 2021 Design and Drawing for Engineering students improved everyday objects to better fit the need.

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STEM Educators

Cooper Union undergraduate STEM Teaching Fellows and Teaching assistants carry on the tradition of leadership in engineering education.

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Motorsports Team

Racecar research returns to Summer STEM. Applications open in January 2022.

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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.