1. The Professional Choice Cooperative Education at the University of Cincinnati

2. Education Gives Structure

3. Professionals need Muscles

4. Best Professional Preparation Available Solid academic course work and professional experience

5. Dean Schneider invents Cooperative Education in 1906 at UC. Now UC has over 4,000 students and 1,500 employers. Dean Herman Schneider 1872 -1939

6. How the Program Works Faculty driven academic program Multiple progressive work terms Breadth / depth of work experiences Experiences must be career and / or discipline related Only paid work experiences Most students start co-op in the winter or spring of sophomore year

7. How the Program Works Two alternating sections Year-round participation with approximately 5 weeks vacation per year Students will be certified to co-op by the college of engineering Students are assigned a Professional Practice faculty adviser by discipline

8. Industry 51234 5/6 1234 6 Section I FWSSFWSSFWSSFWSSFWS FreshmenSophomorePre-JuniorJuniorSenior Section II Intro to Co-op

9. Co-op Timeline 5 th Year: Graduate 4 th Year: Co-op Rotations 3 rd Year: Co-op Rotations 2 nd Year: Job Search and Start Co-op 1 st Year: Intro to Co-op

10. Confirm Major and Career Direction Helps Pay Part of the Costs of School Strong Support System at UC Concrete Skill Development Test Drive Your Chosen Field Alternation of School/Work Keeps You Fresh More Marketable Smooth Transition Networking with Professionals Maturity, Self Confidence Advantages of Co-Op

11. Some Employers That Hire Engineering Co-op Students General Electric Procter & Gamble Company Ethicon Endo-Surgery Duke Energy Corporation Cincinnati Bell General Cable Corporation General Motors Bayer Becker Engineers Toyota Cognis Corporation Ford Motor Company Rockwell Automation Dow Chemical Texas Instruments Wright Patterson Air Force Base Honda of America BP Messer Construction Cummins Engine Belcan Bayer Corporation Intel Corning Precision Lens Ellis and Watts NASA

12. Co-op Employers expect Professionals Co-op students: Follow identical policies and procedures as full- time employees Act as professionals doing their best work at their particular stage of development Transfer learning between classroom learning and workplace

13. May Impact Financial Aid Package Housing and Relocation Your Responsibility Five Years to Graduate Eighteen Months of Paid Work Experience Earn about $40,000 - $45,000 before you graduate Learning Objectives and Reports Each Term Full Time Student Co-op Expenses Co-op Fee Each Term May impact Extra Curriculars Realities of Co-Op

14. Co-op is about Learning and Developing As a Professional

15. Ryan Stobbs Mechanical Engineering, 2007 “The military came to the company wanting to test the durability of a new turret design” “You fire several hundred 50 caliber machine gun bullets and drive it through the desert for several hundred miles”

16. Daniel Seig Mechanical Engineering 2007 “While redesigning the fuel manifold brackets I got to work in the test cells and conduct my own vibrations test” “I held increasing responsibilities leading up to hardware ownership of the fuel supply system. ”

17. Ronnie Rackley II Mechanical Engineering 2008 “Within the first week I knew everyone’s name and have become close friends with a lot of people here.” “My career goals right now are to not graduate and become a co-op for life. Its the best job out there.”

18. Daniel Peterson Mechanical Engineering 2008 “It was incredible working on a brand new product, especially one that is going to revolutionize the field of power generation!” “I worked on a brand new gas turbine, the LMS100.”

19. Christopher Stough Mechanical Engineering 2008 “I've worked on laying out piping and other process systems for fermenters and brewkettles.” “makes customized brewkettles, lauter tuns, fermenters and most other things for breweries”

20. Lance Kelly Mechanical Engineering 2008 “The Injury Biomechanics Research Lab (IBRL), a nationally recognized center for trauma research.” “investigating the relationships between human injury and physical mechanical properties ” Transportation Research Center Inc.

21. Andrew Inman Mechanical Engineering 2008 “co-op friend of mine got us a ride on the test track “I worked with the compressed air system in Toyota's Facilities Control Engineering”

22. Jeffrey Hoffa Mechanical Engineering 2008 “It's pretty nice to get paid to break things! ” “a test track which we used to test experimental components on complete vehicles ”

23. Benjamin Stoney Mechanical Engineering 2007 “It is a great feeling knowing that I was supporting our troops at home and abroad without even being enlisted. ” “I was a fully- functioning assembly engineer, owning the build-up of a B2 bomber engine”

24. Ryan Vannatta Mechanical Engineering 2006 “During the winter while I was there I went snow mobiling, Off-roading, Skiing, and Ice Fishing” “During the summer I went four wheeling, fishing, camping, horseback riding, white water rafting, participated in a rodeo”

25. International Co-op Program Germany Japan Mexico Chile

26. 5/6 2 34 FWSSFWSSFWSSFWSSFWS FreshmenSophomorePre-JuniorJuniorSenior ICP Schedule Intro to Co-op UC Structure of ICP Orientation to International Co-op 1 Intensive Language

27. Courses during academic quarters Intensive language training for six weeks in shortened 4 th co-op ICP Language Training Two week Intensive Language refresher in country

28. Some Employers That Hire ICP Co-op Students 3M Ahresty Audi Bayer AG BMW AG Robert Bosch Gmbh CTI Engineering Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace Degussa AG GE Aircraft Engines General Motors Powertrain Dephi Automotive BF Goodrich Hewlett Packard Kawasaki Steel Kayser – Threde GmbH KA0 / Andrew Jergens Group Lockwood Greene Lufthansa LuK Powertrain, Inc. Mechanical Dynamics Motoren-und Turbinen Union NKK Corporation PCI Computer Systems Pliz GmbH & Co. Siemens Toyobo Company Ltd Volkswagen Wacker Chemie GmbH

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