Dear JPNet,

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 Japan. Part of our work in promoting
this program is to reach out to nonprofit IT focused groups and
organizations. We are currently working with Panasonic's Matsushita's
Business School to offer these courses in Osaka and wanted to inform
your organization that we will be holding an information session on
our program in Tokyo on Thursday May 6th, with information on the
session as follows:

Event: Carnegie Mellon University's iCarnegie Temple IT Program
Topic: Information Session
Date: Thursday, May 6th
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Place: Temple University – Tokyo Campus
Station: Near the Yamanote Tamachi station by Keio University
Map: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/

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.

We 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. If you are unable to attend, please feel free to contact us
at itp@... to set up a time to talk more about the program.

Sincerely Yours,


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