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WPI Corporate and Professional Education works with leading companies both around the world and around the corner. Companies such as Intel, Raytheon, and United Technologies Corporate (UTC) know well, and rely on, our tradition of excellence in engineering education and leadership development.

Over 70 percent of our clients return to us when they want to deepen their knowledge and gain new skills. Here are just a few testimonials from satisfied customers.

Powerful Gains

Challenge: 

Like all of the nation's electric and gas utilities, Northeast Utilities (NU) must keep their leadership pipeline filled, even as customer expectations rise and the organization gears up to improve the power delivery grid's reliability. At the same time, about one third of NU's current workforce nears retirement age, and there are few undergraduate programs educating engineers in power systems.

Solution: 

WPI provides a customized Master's Degree program in Power Systems.

Our leadership team at NU wanted classroom instruction - for us, the face-to-face interaction is a real value. But no one classroom would be convenient to everyone who needs to take the courses.

"WPI Corporate and Professional Education worked with us and our industry partners to deliver a high-level Master's Degree program in Power Systems, in person, at multiple sites. We get top-quality WPI faculty, and a very challenging curriculum.

Over 60 Northeast Utilities engineers are participating in the WPI master's program. This is a large investment for NU. WPI plays an important role in assuring that our technical and leadership pipelines are filled with highly trained employees, who are ready to usher our company and this industry into the future."

Michael Ahern, Vice President of Utility Services
Northeast Utilities

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Fire Up Your Skill Set

Challenge: 

RJA — Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc., a globally respected fire protection code consulting firm - needed to educate its workforce in an extremely specialized area: fire protection engineering. Yet the company is not located near the educational resources it desired.

Solution: 

Corporate and Professional Education offers WPI's distinguished Fire Protection Engineering program, customized to RJA, via distance learning.

"We're good at teaching the application of Fire Protection Engineering; we needed someone to teach the science. And we already knew about the high quality of WPI's programs - some of RJA's most successful hires over the years have come from WPI internships and graduates.

RJA has been impressed from the start with the can-do attitude of the WPI Corporate and Professional Education team. They always go the extra mile to customize the curriculum, accommodate our schedules, and make enrollment easy.

RJA has stayed with WPI because the online Corporate and Professional Education program provides the same quality content and delivery as the university's on-campus classes. We hope to double in size over the next five years - this will take well-trained engineers from around the world serving our global clients. WPI will be our partner in reaching this goal."

George Toth, Chief Operating Officer
The RJA Group, Global Fire & Security Consultants

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Sure Cure

Challenge: 

Millipore Corporation, a leading bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing company, needed to initiate consistent project management training for over 6,000 employees at 30 sites globally. Training had been taking place in pockets of the company, and Millipore recognized the tremendous value in cultivating uniform project management competencies organization-wide.

Solution: 

WPI Corporate and Professional Education brings customized project management training sessions to multiple Millipore work sites.

"WPI faculty engage people with short, frequent exercises that give participants plenty of opportunities to practice their skills in small groups. They work on their actual Millipore projects, not on fictional scenarios, so, our participants leave the course having already started to implement what they've learned."

Jan Wells, Director, Corporate Project Management Office
Millipore Corporation 

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