Stevens Delivers Online Processing Plant Training in Joint Venture

HOBOKEN--In response to the volatile petroleum economy and the continuing Mideast oil crisis, practical plant engineering courses in the tumultuous oil and gas industry are now available entirely online to engineers around the globe at WebCampus, the online education site at Stevens Institute of Technology. The new venture is part of a partnership between Stevens and Carmagen Engineering Inc., a New Jersey consulting firm.

"This is not the kind of training usually covered in school," says Vince Carucci, President of Carmagen. "It includes design, fabrication, and maintenance of piping systems, storage tanks, and pressure vessels." Carmagen's instructors often conduct training at refineries and other sites throughout the U.S., South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East--at some of the most sensitive installations in the world. Carucci added that the new online training courses, available at Stevens' e-Seminar continuing education site, also cover regulations, standards, and safe operating procedures.

Faced with a geographically widely dispersed client base, the company turned to Stevens, acknowledging the school's experience in making engineering courses available over the Internet. "It will now be much easier and more economical for Carmagen to deliver these courses to engineers all over the world on WebCampus," said Robert Zotti, Stevens' Associate Director of Online Learning.

"As the workload for experienced engineers in the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and other industrial plants increases, there is less time for them to train newer staff," says Carucci. "One of the things that makes these online courses so valuable is that they help professionals keep up with new developments."

Carmagen Engineering, Inc. provides engineering consulting and training services to the oil and gas and related industries. Since its founding in 1986, Carmagen has expanded to more than 140 engineering consultants with experience in process, equipment, and project management technologies. Carmagen's expertise spans the petroleum refining, petrochemical, power generation, electrical power, and pharmaceutical industries.

Established in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management and technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in the humanities and liberal arts. The university, located directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, has an enrollment of about 4,200 students.

The school's online unit, WebCampus Stevens, was launched four years ago. Today, it offers nearly 160 entirely online graduate and professional courses in science, technology and management. More than 3,600 students have already enrolled in its four online Master's degrees and 23 online graduate certificates programs. The school's e-Seminar unit offers four continuing education programs online. WebCampus students are located in 36 states and 27 countries
worldwide.

To view WebCampus, go to www.webcampus.stevens.edu
To visit e-Seminars, go to www.eseminars.stevens.edu
For Carmagen courses, click "Carmagen Engineering: at www.eseminars.stevens.edu

For additional information:

Robert Zotti
(201) 216-5231
rzotti@stevens-tech.edu