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 Schneider
1872 -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
Intro to Co-op
Section
II
1
2
3
5/6
4
Industry
1
2
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4
5
6
Section
I
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Freshmen
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W
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Sophomore
F
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Pre-Junior
F
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Junior
S
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Senior
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
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
Some Employers That Hire
Engineering Co-op Students
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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
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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 fulltime employees
•Act as professionals
doing their best work at
their particular stage of
development
• Transfer learning
between classroom
learning and workplace
Realities of
Co-Op
Co-op Expenses
Full Time Student
Co-op Fee Each Term
May impact Extra Curriculars
May Impact Financial Aid 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
Co-op is about
Learning and Developing
As a Professional
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”
Daniel Seig
Mechanical Engineering 2007
“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”
Ronnie Rackley II
Mechanical Engineering 2008
“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.”
Daniel Peterson
Mechanical Engineering 2008
“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!”
Christopher Stough
Mechanical Engineering 2008
“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.”
Lance Kelly
Mechanical Engineering 2008
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.”
Andrew Inman
Mechanical Engineering 2008
“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
Jeffrey Hoffa
Mechanical Engineering 2008
“a test track which
we used to test
experimental
components on
complete vehicles ”
“It's pretty nice to get paid to break things! ”
Benjamin Stoney
Mechanical Engineering 2007
“I was a fullyfunctioning 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. ”
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”
International Co-op Program
Japan
Germany
Mexico
Chile
UC Structure of ICP
Intro to Co-op
Orientation to
International Co-op
Intensive
Language
ICP
Schedule
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Freshmen
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2
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Sophomore
3
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4
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Pre-Junior
5/6
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Junior
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Senior
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
Some Employers That Hire
ICP Co-op Students
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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
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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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