Job Skills Advanced engineering/science courses for working professionals

[elgen]

Greetings, forum users. I have been working as an electric engineer for more than ten years. There is a potential project at work that demands graduate level knowledge in numerical methods and electrodynamics. I wonder if there is any good way to catch up in these fields.

It is not practical to get a graduate degree at this stage in my career. The closest I have found is some course pages that post the notes and homework. In the meanwhile, I wonder if any university offers non-degree courses, and students can interact with instructors and other students. Interactions benefit the learning experience.

Thank you for the attention.

 

[berkeman]

A number of universities in the US offer "continuing education" courses that are open to professionals and other applicants. And sometimes the larger companies will cover the cost of such courses, and help you with registration.

When I worked at HP here in Silicon Valley a number of years ago, I took such courses from UC Berkeley (and maybe Stanford). One class was on Antennas, which I used in my work on EMC compliance at HP. One other was in Nuclear Fusion (which I may have paid for myself, since I wasn't working in that area when I was at HP).

 

[CrysPhys]

OP: In addition to the university option discussed above, there are also private instructors (often moonlighting professors) that teach courses outside of a university (e.g., in a conference room at a hotel). If your company is large enough and there are enough students within the company, they will teach tailored courses at your company.

 

[elgen]

Thank you both for sharing the experience!

 

[gmax137]

University of Florida offered graduate courses, evening hours, in their palm beach gardens campus. Attended by mostly Pratt & Whitney and FPL engineers. They catered to both degree seeking or not.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Washington in Seattle does something similar, popular with Boeing.

There is surely a lot out there if one looks.

 

[jtbell]

Have you investigated specific universities for policies regarding non-degree-seeking students?

I did a Google search for "clemson university non degree seeking students" and quickly found the following page:

https://www.clemson.edu/registrar/student-menu/admittance/non-degree.html

 

[elgen]

I notice Johns Hopkins has a comprehensive web site with a list of steps

https://ep.jhu.edu/new-students/registration/

and a list of courses

https://ep.jhu.edu/courses/?query=&...engineering&filters[location]=&filters[mode]=