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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I

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

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

1

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

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