The Professional Choice
Cooperative Education at the University of Cincinnati
Education Gives Structure
Professionals need Muscles
Best Professional Preparation Available
Solid academic course work and professional experience
Dean Schneider invents Cooperative Education in 1906 at UC.
Now UC has over 4,000 students and 1,500 employers.
Dean Herman Schneider1872 -1939
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
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
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Section II
Intro to Co-op
Co-op Timeline
5th Year: Graduate
4th Year: Co-op Rotations
3rd Year: Co-op Rotations
2nd Year: Job Search and Start Co-op
1st Year: Intro to Co-op
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
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
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
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
Co-op is aboutLearning and DevelopingAs a Professional
Ryan StobbsMechanical 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”
Daniel SeigMechanical 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. ”
Ronnie Rackley IIMechanical 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.”
Daniel PetersonMechanical 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.”
Christopher StoughMechanical 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”
Lance KellyMechanical 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.
Andrew InmanMechanical 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”
Jeffrey HoffaMechanical 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 ”
Benjamin StoneyMechanical 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”
Ryan VannattaMechanical 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”
International Co-op Program
Germany
Japan
Mexico
Chile
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ICP Schedule
Intro to Co-op
UC Structure of ICP
Orientation to International Co-op
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Intensive Language
Courses during academic quarters
Intensive language training for six weeks
in shortened 4th co-op
ICP Language Training
Two week Intensive Languagerefresher in country
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
What are YOUR Questions?