New professional development for engineers
The continuing education centres of the engineering faculties at the Université de Sherbrooke and Polytechnique Montréal, have joined with Concordia’s School of Extended Learning, in collaboration with Concordia University’s Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, to launch accesgenie.ca, a new portal that will propose university-level professional development services.
Noel Burke, dean of Concordia’s School of Extended Learning, says the partnership is the latest example of how “the School of Extended Learning acts as an interactive portal between Concordia, a community university, and new client communities, by continuing to provide new options in professional development.”
For Robin Drew, the dean of Concordia’s Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, the initiative serves as “a fitting recognition of the Faculty’s ability to help professional engineers maintain the knowledge and skills required to excel in their industry.”
Burke and Drew participated in the launch, along with Pierre G. Lafleur, director of Academic and International Affairs at Polytechnique Montréal, and Dominique Lefebvre, assistant dean of Professional Development at Université de Sherbrooke.
The institutions consolidated their resources and expertise in order to gradually offer services that will enable their clienteles to enrich their skills and qualifications to plan and develop their careers.
The accesgenie.ca portal marks the first stage in their collaboration. The site proposes quick access through a single outlet to a list of courses in an array of sectors of activity specifically related to engineering. Other services relevant to engineers’ needs in their professional activities will be offered in the coming months.
The new partnership has been established to satisfy needs stemming from the new regulation on the professional development of engineers, which compels members of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec to accumulate at least 30 hours of professional development during a two-year reference period.
Engineers and technologists will thus be able to quickly access the foremost expertise of three major faculties of engineering in Québec and Canada through accesgenie.ca.
Concordia deans Noel Burke and Robin Drew speak about the new partnership at the reception held November 28, 2011:
Related links:
• Concordia Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• Concordia School of Extended Learning