People

Continuing Education

Ira Pierce, P.E.

RPIE Instructor
ira.pierce@cooper.edu

Ken Barber

Instructor

Barry Bergdoll

Instructor

Sam Chun

Enrollment Operations Manager for Continuing Education/CUSAI Program Coordinator and Recruiter
(212) 353-4202 | samuel.chun@cooper.edu

John Downer

Instructor

Mark Drozdov

Instructor, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers

Jack Eichenbaum

Instructor
jaconet@aol.com

Hannes Famira

Adjunct Professor
212.353.4200 | hfamira@cooper.edu

Dustin Fraser

Instructor, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers

Rina Goldfield

Continuing Education Instructor

Eric Hibit

Instructor

Sofie Hodara

Instructor

Nol Honig

Instructor

Shira Inbar

Continuing Education Instructor

Jonathan Katav

Continuing Education Instructor

Troy Leinster

Instructor

Ellen Lupton

Instructor

Maurice Meilleur

Instructor, Continuing Education

Simone Meltesen

Operations Manager
Continuing Education
RPIE
Summer Art Intensive
Type@Cooper
simone.meltesen@cooper.edu

Amy Papaelias

Instructor, Continuing Education

Martha Rettig

Instructor

Douglas Riccardi

Instructor, Continuing Education

Carl Rohrs

Instructor

Suzanna Schmeelk

Instructor, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers

Fred Shallcrass

Instructor
fred@frerejones.com

Nick Sherman

instructor
nick.sherman@cooper.edu

Gustavo Soares

Instructor, Continuing Education

Tida Tep

Instructor
tep.tida@gmail.com

Alexander Tochilovsky

Curator, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
212.353.4021 | sasha.tochilovsky@cooper.edu

Josette Urso

Instructor

Natalie Westbrook

Instructor

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.