Distance Education

• Growing list of more than 30 graduate level engineering courses already produced in one or more distance formats (video, CD-ROM, web-streamed). Those distance courses being supported each semester are listed as “DISTANCE” on the Engineering Outreach Graduate Course Schedule
• Take individual courses simply to expand your knowledge. Engineering Outreach will work with you to make certain you have the proper prerequisite background to benefit from the courses you select.
• Graduate Certificate in Composite Materials – Designed for engineering and science professionals who are new to the field of composite materials or wish to expand their knowledge of composite materials, the certificate requires completion of three graduate courses (9 credits), all of which are transferable to graduate program in mechanical engineering or materials science.
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) – This 30-credit non-thesis program can be earned entirely through distance courses.
• Master of Engineering, Mechanical (MEM) – This 30-credit non-thesis program can be earned entirely through distance courses.

How To Begin:

1. If you wish to pursue one of the graduate degrees (MSEE or MEM) available through distance learning, we strongly recommend that you take some (up to 3 total) UD distance courses prior to applying to the degree program. This gives you the opportunity to prove that this is the right program and format for you, and performing well in those courses (B or better) will enhance your graduate application package.
2. Review the schedule of graduate courses available in the semester you are targeting.
3. Complete the Engineering Outreach Graduate Course Application Form, used by Outreach staff to obtain permission for you to register in the class. If there are any questions regarding your background, Outreach will contact you to discuss those concerns. We do not want you to take a course for which you are not prepared to succeed!
4. Complete the UD-Online Course Registration Form.
5. Complete the appropriate UD-Online Payment Form:
1. Individual Payment Form – used by individuals who do not work at an official UD Online Work Site. Your complete course materials will be shipped directly to you. You will still need to identify a work supervisor, Human Relations personnel, or some other appropriate individual who is willing to proctor your exams, and then e-mail that person’s contact information to Engineering Outreach.
2. Worksite Payment Form – used when you are employed by an official UD Online Worksite outside the State of Delaware. Worksite students save several hundred dollars in tuition compared to tuition for individual non-Delaware residents. Course materials will be shipped to your worksite coordinator. If you choose to take your course on video, then up to three worksite students would share the same set of videotapes. After you and your colleagues have completed the course, the worksite coordinator is responsible for seeing that the videotapes or CD-ROMs are shipped back to the University of Delaware.
3. If you are not a Delaware resident but would like to take advantage of the tuition savings offered to official worksite students, and if your company is not already an official worksite, then you will need to identify someone willing to serve as the worksite coordinator and complete the Site Participant Agreement form. Typically this is a company education coordinator, Human Resources personnel, a work manager, etc. That person agrees to (a) accept delivery of course materials for distribution to work site students, (b) proctor exams, and (c) ship videotapes or CD-ROMs back to the University of Delaware upon completion of the course. Feel free to have your prospective worksite coordinator contact Engineering Outreach with any questions. (302-831-4863/2401)

Logistics:

Once you have been approved for the course of your choice and your registration is paid and entered in the UD-Online system, you will be shipped your course materials. These include:

• Course syllabus, contact information for the professor, and book ordering information
• Information for establishing your user name and password so that you will be able to log onto the University system, change your automatically assigned UD e-mail address (or forward that address to one you read regularly), as well as enable you to log onto the WebCT course management site where, for most courses, valuable course materials are accessible to you in a secure manner.
• If the course has been videotaped in a previous semester, you will be shipped the entire set of videotapes or CD-ROMs (if you selected one of those formats). If the course is being taped in the same semester for which you are registering, the only formats available will be web-streamed and videotape, making the lectures available to you within days of their taping.

Here is where your self-discipline must kick in! Following the syllabus and balancing that with your work schedule, you will watch the lectures on your own time. Distance courses provide flexibility in that regard; however, you must pace yourself to complete the course by the end of the semester.

Be sure to contact the professor by e-mail, phone, or fax regarding any questions about the course lectures.

E-mail or fax (302-831-8179) your homework to Engineering Outreach, where it will be logged in and passed to the professor.

When you are about a week away from being ready to take an exam, contact Engineering Outreach and confirm your proctor information (e-mail, phone, and fax). Outreach staff will then get the exam to your proctor.

If there are multiple people at your worksite taking the same course, please make every effort to coordinate your test taking with them and your site coordinator.

Additional information will be provided by the individual faculty.

Engineering Licensing Exam Review Courses in Distance Format

• Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Review Course (videotape)
• Environmental and Mechanical Engineering PE Review Courses
  (videotape and CD-ROM)