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Stanford Honors Cooperative Program
- Year
- 1954
- Creator
- Frederick Terman
- Company
- Stanford School of Engineering
- Location
- Stanford, California
- Room
- Cold War Money ↗
Description
The Honors Cooperative Program let engineers from local companies study part time for Stanford master's degrees while they kept their jobs. In 1954 the first students were 23 electrical engineers from General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, SRI, and Sylvania.
Importance
The program gave companies such as Hewlett-Packard and SRI a reason to stay near Stanford, because their engineers could get advanced training. The companies paid double tuition, and the extra money helped to pay for engineering faculty. In 1969 the program started to send classes by television, and this photograph shows such a class at a job site.
Interesting fact
In the first years, a courier carried examinations and homework between the campus and the companies.
Sources
- 70 years ago, Stanford Engineering pioneered a new model for graduate education for industry professionals ↗Stanford School of Engineering · 2024-10-30
- Stanford Industrial Park (addendum paper for the International Forum of University Science Parks) ↗Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing (Jon Sandelin) · 2004
- HCP History ↗Stanford Online