The Professional Choice

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

2. Education Gives Structure

3. ProfessionalsneedMuscles

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. F W S S F W S S F W S S F W S S F W S Freshmen Sophomore Pre-Junior Junior Senior Intro to Co-op Section II 1 2 3 4 5/6 Industry 1 2 3 4 5 6 Section I

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

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

11. 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 Some Employers That Hire Engineering Co-op Students

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

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

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

16. Daniel SeigMechanical Engineering2007 “I held increasing responsibilities leading up to hardware ownership of the fuel supply system. ” “While redesigning the fuel manifold brackets I got to work in the test cells and conduct my own vibrations test”

17. Ronnie Rackley IIMechanical Engineering2008 “My career goals right now are to not graduate and become a co-op for life. Its the best job out there.” “Within the first week I knew everyone’s name and have become close friends with a lot of people here.”

18. Daniel PetersonMechanical Engineering2008 “I worked on a brand new gas turbine, the LMS100.” “It was incredible working on a brand new product, especially one that is going to revolutionize the field of power generation!”

19. Christopher StoughMechanical Engineering2008 “makes customized brewkettles, lauter tuns, fermenters and most other things for breweries” “I've worked on laying out piping and other process systems for fermenters and brewkettles.”

20. Lance KellyMechanical Engineering2008 Transportation Research Center Inc. “investigating the relationships between human injury and physical mechanical properties ” “The Injury Biomechanics Research Lab (IBRL), a nationally recognized center for trauma research.”

21. Andrew InmanMechanical Engineering2008 “I worked with the compressed air system in Toyota's Facilities Control Engineering” “co-op friend of mine got us a ride on the test track

22. Jeffrey HoffaMechanical Engineering2008 “a test track which we used to test experimental components on complete vehicles ” “It's pretty nice to get paid to break things! ”

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

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

25. International Co-op Program Japan Germany Mexico Chile

26. F W S S F W S S F W S S F W S S F W S Freshmen Sophomore Pre-Junior Junior Senior UC Structure of ICP Intro to Co-op Orientation to International Co-op Intensive Language ICP Schedule 1 2 3 4 5/6

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

28. 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 Some Employers That Hire ICP Co-op Students

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