Dustin Fraser

Instructor, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers

Dustin Fraser is a Ph.D. student at Capitol Technology University studying Business Analytics and Data Science. In 2018, he graduated from the same institution with a Master’s degree in Cyber and Information Security. In 2017, he completed several courses at The Cooper Union Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers. This experience influenced his interest in research on how cybersecurity can be a driver for economic growth as he believes it is important to develop requisite skills to strengthen our capacity to cope with new technologies and technological advancement.

Fraser is also fluent in Spanish, and enjoys traveling. He is grateful to be in a position to make contributions towards developing new careers, and believes that the totality of his education, experiences, and interests helps him to advance our community to a better place.

Dustin Fraser's CV can be viewed here.

  • 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.