Industry-Relevant Credentials

Industry-Relevant Credentials

Industry-Relevant Credentials

Accelerate Your Personal and Professional Success

Engineering and science fuel innovation, and today, innovation happens at warp speed. Technology evolves at this rapid pace and influences the way industries do business. Employers, in response, look for talented professionals who can keep up and spearhead new developments and projects.

Prepare to face a new challenge through the Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Science's industry-relevant credentials, designed to deliver convenient, flexible and practical training in a wide variety of in-demand skills. As a current student, alumni or working professional, spark your curiosity and expand your understanding of business, cutting-edge technologies and what it takes to lead. Gain the practical knowledge to suit your goals while setting yourself apart from other candidates, thanks to the enhanced, real-world experiences built into each course.

What Are Industry-Relevant Credentials?

Accredited institutions increasingly provide short, flexible, usually online courses focusing on a specific competency or specialized area. Supporting aspiring and current engineering and science professionals, Clarkson's industry-relevant credentials create a convenient and accessible path toward building the hard and soft skills employers look for without interrupting your undergraduate coursework or professional duties. 

The Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Science's Mission

The Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences provides a coherent, intellectually stimulating, high-impact educational experience. Our students accelerate their success through our outstanding academic programs, holistic academic and career advising, hands-on experiences like research or team-based SPEED design projects, internships and co-ops and personalized education. Our industry-relevant credentials let students adapt, shape and enhance their experiences at Clarkson beyond a formal degree, illustrate how we support alumni and reflect Clarkson's status as America's Corporate Partner University.

Format and Evaluation

Grow your skill set at any time. Sign up for our industry-relevant credentials year-round, with most courses using a convenient asynchronous, online format. Hybrid and in-person options are available for firsthand experience or one-on-one training. Quizzes, assignments, instructor feedback or other assessments ensure you master your new knowledge.

Who Can Enroll

We open our industry-relevant credentials to all undergraduate and graduate Clarkson students, regardless of whether they are part of the Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We also extend the skills-building benefits to Clarkson alumni and working professionals.

Benefits of the Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Industry-Relevant Credentials

Pursue your passion and personalize your path to success with one, two or even several industry-relevant credentials. The possibilities are in your hands. 

View All Course Options for Current Students

Gain Up-to-Date Industry Knowledge

We design our courses with input from industry leaders and current faculty. Content covers the latest developments in a chosen topic or exposes you to the latest technologies, all with the rigor and hands-on learning of a Clarkson education.  

Personalize and Expand Your Education

For current students, courses complement all curricular classes. Follow your interests, hone your goals and add a skill that may fall outside of your degree plan.

Explore Related Career Paths

While a degree marks the beginning of your career, industry-relevant credentials highlight all the places your degree can take you. Through this format, gain insight into other professional paths. Dive deeper into what interests you. Identify and cultivate skills in an engineering- and science-related area like business, law, project management or manufacturing.

Career Benefits

Climb the ranks of your current organization or pivot to a different career with the knowledge you acquire. At the end of each course, you receive a micro-credential certifying to employers that you have additional expertise from a tech-forward institution. 

Corporate Partnerships

A company's greatest asset is talent. Industry-relevant credential programs ensure your employees continue to develop and expand their respective skill sets without the interruptions and inconvenience of offsite training. Partner with Clarkson University to tap into our renowned faculty, state-of-the-art facilities and reputation for tech-focused excellence. Together, we can create flexible courses tailored to the needs of your employees and organization.

Develop a Course with Clarkson

Explore Engineering and Applied Science Programs That Offer Relevant Micro-Credentials

Contact us to learn more about our course offerings and how you can enroll.

Electrical & Computer Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Electrical & Computer Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Message From the Chair

Golden Knights in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department change the world. This issue of our newsletter offers an array of stories that exemplify the impactful work members of our community do in all stages of their careers.

— Paul McGrath, Professor/Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Future in Research

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Daqing Hou and Yu Liu

An NSF grant will fund 10 students per summer in the Research Experiences for Undergraduate program for another three years. The students work closely with faculty mentors to investigate novel high-performance computing solutions for a variety of engineering problems that are critical to national security, scientific discovery and technological innovation.

Read More About the NSF Grant for Our REU Site

Alumnus Address

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Headshot of Rajan Raghavan

Rajan Raghavan MS’82 keynoted May's graduate commencement ceremony. A serial entrepreneur, Raghavan is a University trustee and founder of The Fabric, which co-creates cloud infrastructure companies with other entrepreneurs.

Read More About Rajan Raghavan's Commencement Address

Prof in Japan

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Prof. Dana Barry presents at a podium

Prof. Dana Barry traveled to Japan to provide women with tips for pursuing research opportunities. She also shared her unique and creative career experience with students.

Read More About Prof. Barry's Japan Trip

Top ROI

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B.H. Snell Hall, Clarkson University

Clarkson is consistently named a best-value college known for giving students a great return on their investment. We recently placed in the Top 40 on Stacker’s list of the 100 colleges whose grads go on to earn the most. The Stacker rankings, compiled using PayScale data, also highlighted that Clarkson grads report salaries more than 10 percent higher than the national average.

Read About Our Great ROI

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Message From the Chair

Golden Knights in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department change the world. This issue of our newsletter offers an array of stories that exemplify the impactful work members of our community do in all stages of their careers. Please enjoy reading.

— Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, Professor/Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Plasma Pathways

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Selma Mededovic

Prof. Selma Mededovic and her co-researchers have received an NSF grant to further research into the development of multiphase gas-liquid plasma reactors. The nearly $800K in funding could generate new insights and novel means of analyzing plasmas in contact with liquids.

Read More About Prof. Mededovic's NSF Grant

Nitrogen to Ammonia

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Headshot, Ian McCrum

The transition to clean energy technology has stimulated research into alternative energy sources and the development of electrocatalytic processes. Asst. Prof. Ian McCrum was awarded an NSF Engineering Research Initiation grant for research on a reaction in which renewable electricity can be used to convert atmospheric nitrogen and water into ammonia, a widely used fertilizer.

Read More About Prof. McCrum's NSF Grant

Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Civil & Environmental Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Message From the Chair

In this issue of our newsletter, we share just a sampling of recent achievements of the students and faculty in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Our faculty are dedicated to improving the resilience of both the built and natural environments and to mentoring the next generations of engineers by sharing their knowledge.

— Steven Wojtkiewicz, Professor/Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Kicking Up A Virus

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Portrait of Mahender Singh Rawat

PhD student Mahender Singh Rawat's research is the first study that has quantified the resuspension, or “kicking up," of virus particles from the floor into the air from human activity. He was awarded a grant to attend the International Society of Exposure Science annual meeting and present his research this summer.

Read More About Kicking Up Virus Particles

Fulbright Specialist

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Robert Thomas

Concrete construction is responsible for more than seven percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but Assistant Professor Robert Thomas and his research team are working to change that. He received a Fulbright Specialist award to travel to India this summer and collaborate on curriculum development to support emerging low-carbon concrete technologies.

Read More About Prof. Thomas' Fulbright

Healthy Water

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Two men discuss a poster presentation.

Clarkson's Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions held its first annual meeting during the spring semester. The conference addressed topics like building climate resiliency in small communities, the treatment and monitoring of forever chemicals such as PFAS, and the detection and mitigation of harmful algal blooms.

Read More About the Health Water Solutions Meeting

Ice Award

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Headshot, Hung Tao Shen

Distinguished Research Professor in Hydraulic Engineering Hung Tao Shen has been honored for his outstanding and sustained contributions to the advancement of river ice science and engineering in Canada. In July, he received the Bernard Michel Award of the Committee on River Ice and the Environment of the Canadian Geophysical Union.

Read More About Prof. Shen's Award

Center for Advanced Materials Processing Newsletter: August 2023

Center for Advanced Materials Processing Newsletter: August 2023

Message From the Director

Our CAMP-affiliated faculty continue to make ground-breaking discoveries in their research. From finding new ways to remove toxic PFAS from groundwater to analyzing plasmas in contact with liquids, we are breaking new ground as we look for ways to keep our world clean. Here are a few of their stories.

— Devon Shipp, Director of CAMP, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Plasma Pathways

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Selma Mededovic

Prof. Selma Mededovic and her co-researchers have received an NSF grant to further research into the development of multiphase gas-liquid plasma reactors. The nearly $800K in funding could generate new insights and novel means of analyzing plasmas in contact with liquids.

Read More About This NSF Grant

Sensing PFAS

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water is being poured into a glass adjacent to other half-full water glasses

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – synthetic chemicals used in many industries and products – are of growing concern because of their harmful effects on the environment and human health. Research into developing easy-to-use, low-cost sensors for PFAS was recently highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.

Read More About Sensing PFAS

Removing PFAS

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Richard Partch, Silvana Andreescu, Mario Wriedt, Thomas Holsen, and Michelle Crimi

A group of professors has been awarded $650K from the Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to find and design new advanced adsorbent materials to remove toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater.

Read More About Removing PFAS From Groundwater

CAMP Meeting

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four attendees, including Devon Shipp and Marc Christensen, at the CAMP Technical meeting.

More than 160 scientists, industry leaders, state economic development representatives and students gathered for the 2023 CAMP Annual Technical Meeting in Corning, New York. The meeting featured a research and technology showcase as well as themes revolving around advanced characterization of materials and advanced technologies for healthy water.

Read More About the CAMP Technical Meeting

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter: August 2023

Message From the Chair

National research grants awarded this year to Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering faculty by the NIH and NSF are enabling both our undergraduate and graduate students to engage in groundbreaking research and scholarship. From cutting-edge biomedical research to studying the solar birthplace of space weather, our students are performing the hands-on research at the center of the Clarkson experience.

— Brian Helenbrook, Professor/Chair of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering/Paynter-Krigman Endowed Professor in Engineering Science Simulation

Vocal Hyperfunction

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headshot, Byron Erath

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering students will perform cross-disciplinary biomedical research along with more than 25 researchers from more than 13 universities and institutions around the world. Associate Professor Byron Erath is a co-investigator in the National Institutes of Health grant which is making this possible.

Read More About Vocal Hyperfunction

Glowing Opportunity

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Student working on research

Clarkson has a strong history of welcoming socio-demographically diverse students to our campus. A National Institutes of Health grant will launch the BOREALIS Scholars program, which will prepare a diverse cadre of students for careers in biomedical research by creating a pathway to bioengineering graduate study.

Read More About the BOREALIS Scholars

Solar Convection

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Chunlei Liang

The sun’s convection zone is the birthplace of space weather. Through a National Science Foundation grant, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chunlei Liang will teach graduate, undergraduate and high school students how to become computational engineers and scientists who can make faster and more accurate predictions of turbulent convection in the sun.

Read More About Prof. Liang's Project

Top ROI

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Snell Hall

Clarkson is consistently named a best-value college known for giving students a great return on their investment. We recently placed in the Top 40 on Stacker’s list of the 100 colleges whose grads go on to earn the most. The Stacker rankings, compiled using PayScale data, also highlighted that Clarkson grads report salaries more than 10% higher than the national average.

Read More About Students' Earnings