Introduces engineering students to the cooperative education program and assists them through self-assessment in relation to the engineering profession. Offers students an opportunity to develop job search and career management skills and to learn about the co-op program. Analyzes how personality, values, skills, and interests relate to the co-op search and shape work experiences. Employer and student panels assist students exploring employment opportunities. Also introduces students to the attributes of a global engineer and the possibility of working globally.

ARCH

BIOL

BUSN

FSEM

GENS

INPR

MATH

PHYS

ENCP

Introduction to Engineering Co-op Education

Provides students with an opportunity to reflect on both academic and co-op experiences in the context of planning for the senior year and beyond. Issues include professional and ethical issues, resolving ethical conflicts, awareness of engineers as professionals in a diverse world, strengthening decision-making skills, career portfolios, and lifelong learning needs, goals, and strategies. Students reflect upon issues of diversity from their experience in the University and in their cooperative education placements. Explores the role of different work and learning styles and diverse personal characteristics on the workplace and the classroom. Professional issues include impact of the cultural context, both in the United States and around the world, on the client, government relations, and the workplace.

BIOE

CHME

EECE

Professional Issues in Engineering

Designed to introduce graduate engineering students to the cooperative education program and to maximize their learning by helping them become more intentional about learning in co-op and in the transfer of that knowledge and experience to and from their academic program and throughout their entire careers. Offers students an opportunity to develop career goals; to be able to identify and justify what they need to learn through their co-op experience and entire careers; and to acquire the tools to be able to continually assess what they already know, what they think they know, what they need to know, and what they would like to know in relation to achieving their career goals. Includes readings, exercises, and discussions. This course does not count toward degree requirements.

Career Management for Engineers

Introduction to Cooperative Education

Provides eligible students with an opportunity for work experience. May be repeated without limit.

Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time

Co-op Work Experience

Offers eligible students an opportunity for work experience abroad. May be repeated without limit.

Engineering Cooperative Ed