Dear Click-IT Members,

We are currently scheduling more IT Program courses in Osaka for the
Fall and invite everyone to attend our upcoming information session
at Panasonic. Temple University Japan (TUJ) has partnered with
Carnegie Mellon's iCarnegie program to offer a 2 new certificate
programs covering 10 different IT courses here in Tokyo and is
working with Panasonic to bring these courses to Osaka. We are will
be holding an information session on the 10 different IT courses we
offer at the Panasonic Osaka school as follows:

Event: Carnegie Mellon University's iCarnegie Temple IT Program
Topic: Information Session
Date: Saturday, July 17th
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Place: Matsushita Business School (Umeda, Osaka)
Map: http://panasonic.jp/busicul/school/index.html

Additional program information can be found at:
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/itp/


We are hoping some of your members may be interested in the program.
Further information is as follows:

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The Temple IT Program stems from a partnership program between TUJ
and iCarnegie Inc., an educational affiliate of Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU) located in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. CMU is one of
the worlds top computer science research and educational institutions
for software development and was ranked the #1 US Computer Science
Program for 2002 by US News & World Reports. Through participation in
this program, students and IT professionals in Japan are provided
access to world-class computer education resources and training
content from the United States while also maintaining the benefits of
having course instructors teaching in an American University
classroom environment.

The Temple IT Program offers certification in two critical IT
disciplines: Computer Programming and Software Systems Development.
By completing the required combination of five core courses, students
earn the Certificate in Computer Programming and possess advanced
skills and training for positions as C++ programmers, user interface
developers, and Java/Web programmers. Students who complete a further
five-course combination receive the Certificate in Software Systems
Development, which will allow them to effectively work in large
projects as database developers, software engineers, and software
project managers. In particular, courses SSD9 and SSD10 prepare
students and corporations to effectively plan, organize and manage
large scale IT projects while also providing in-depth knowledge and
experience in using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for managing
software development projects. CMM is a global IT industry standard
software management process that was jointly developed by the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Carnegie Mellon University.

Through the use of the Temple IT Program, corporate IT departments
have the ability to assess the technical abilities of their current
IT staff while also providing them a cost-effective way to raise the
IT technical skills of each staff member to meet corporate needs.
Also, the added benefit of having your IT staff trained in English
will enable them to work more productively in multinational IT
project environments. TUJ is also offering a Corporate
Sponsorship/Internship Program to a limited number of companies to
allow corporations direct access to program students for internship
opportunities at your company, thus providing a corporate recruiting
resource that ensures measurable technical skills and communicational
ability. Corporate Sponsorship also provides companies the added
benefit of reduced course fees for employees interested in taking the
program.

If you have any additional questions about our program and how it is
structured to improve the IT productivity and functions within
corporations, please contact us for further information. Our current
efforts in marketing the program include talking with technology
managers and corporate Human Resource departments to help them assess
how this program may benefit their organization, thus any comments or
thoughts on the program or professionals who may be interested in the
Temple IT Program would be greatly appreciated. The following
weblinks provide more information on the program.

Thank you for your time and hope to have an opportunity in the near
future to discuss further the benefits of the Temple IT Program.

Sincerely Yours,


Robert Scheele
Temple IT Program
Phone: 03-5441-9800 Ext. 503
Mobile: 080-1053-2128
Email: itp@...