Job, Internship, or Co-op Program

Engineering students have a variety of job, internship, and co-op opportunities available to review and act on.

Engineering Jobs

The jobs can be viewed online through the Career Center. In addition, the Career Center subscribes to a variety of engineering job posting publications that you can look through for opportunities. Visit Engineering Career Liaison Terry Comerford’s Office, Engineering 102, to see these publications.

Engineering Internships

Internships are any carefully monitored work or service experience in which an individual has intentional learning goals and reflects actively on what she or he is learning throughout the experience. These learning goals may include:

• Academic learning - The student applies knowledge learned in the classroom to the workplace.
• Career development - The student gains knowledge of the qualifications and duties of a position and can explore their interest in a field.
• Skill development - The student gains an understanding of the skills and knowledge required in the workplace.
• Personal development - The student gains decision making skills, critical thinking skills, increased confidence, and self-esteem.

Internships vary in duration and may be part-time or full-time. Internships can take place in any work or service setting and may be paid or unpaid. They may be part of an educational program and carefully monitored and evaluated for academic credit or, they may be part of a learning plan that the intern develops. The important element that distinguishes an internship from a short-term job or community service is the "intentional learning agenda" that the intern brings to the experience.

Co-op Program

A Co-Op is a full-time 6-month paid work experience related to your major alternating with academic semesters which will involve the need to leave campus to pursue the experience.  Students participating in the Co-Op program will continue to be enrolled students for the duration of the program.