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Taken: 2006-08-28
This is stuff about Co-op and internships.
Steve Gattan
- Parallel is working 10-15 (or maybe up to 20) hours in the community while in school.
- Available after Freshman year
- Begin looking as Sophomore, they want Juniors.
- An internship is a one-time commitment. Co-ops involve multiople times.
What you don't learn in the classsroom - by Caleb Quick
Why?
- Learn the knowledge is applicable.
- Learn what people in your field do.
- Learn your interests
- Learn about the industry
- Learn while getting paid!!!
- Learn future opportunities
My Career Path
- Aviation and Engineering
- Goal of working at Cessna
- Persistence paid off!!!
- Phone calls - make sure
- Hands on work
- Variety
- Good impression of company
- Companies sometimes treat interns better than new hires
- First internship qualified for second
- People
- Engineers
- Test pilots
- FAA
Benefits
- Career fit
- Strong resume
- Industry experience
- Vision for future
- Networking
- Communication
- Learning real life skills
- Engineering process
- Project management
- Corporate environment
Co-ops and Internships - Steppings Stones to Your Future - by Jonothan Spaulding, Computer Engineer
Elements of Learning
- Theoretical Knowledge
- Practical Knowledge
Benefits
- Find out if you like doing what you are studying
- Build a good reputation with a company
- Get Paid
What is an Intership Like?
- Varies widely from company to company
- It's a real job
- You can always ask for help
- An Excel spreadsheet is involved in most interships. ;)
Rockwell Collins
- Simulations of avionics hardware
- Updating copyrights and editing spreadsheets
- Modifying simulations
- Writing simulations
- Vehicle
- Modifying network interface unnamed airiel vehicle
Licoln Electric - The welding experts. Clevelend, OH
- Lab instrument compuiter interface setup
- True stress strain calculator
- Way to caclulate how slick (easy to slide) wire is.
Internship Howto
- Make a resume
- 1 page brief summary of and overview of education
- Meet with Steve Gatton
- Go to career fair
- Interview event if not perfect fit
- Drop by the caeer services office peridically
- Call persistently
- Apply online
- Talk to real people.
The True Value of an Internship
- Chance to see what life is like after college
- Learn how to live on your own
- Not just career skils, life skills.
Questions
- Try. Persistence pays off.
- A part time local job is to Jr. Sophomore internship.
- Good to go to multiple companies to get better experience.
- Rockwell had better developed pogram and was better for computer engineering
- It's very hard to work and have school at the same time - very hard to engineering students.
Steve Gattan
- Go to Career Services
- Click on For Students
- Check out College Central
- See companies seeking LeTu students
- Read about company on website and have something to talk about at career fair
- Start getting name recognition
- Cessna has thousands (?) of applications for like 30 jobs.
- Those who work the hardest get the jobs
- Go to resume help
- Get templates for different jobs and careers.
- Those are tried and tested
- You want state of the art when you are 1 out of 1,000
- See upcoming interviews and information seminars.
- Go to seminars as freshmen and learn about companies
- See list of companies coming to career fair.
- Go intruduce, tell name and tell them you've seen their website (make list of questions maybe)
- See what career fits you.
- Career assement tools online.
- See career titles for your major that may be at career fair.
- Links for how to write cover letters for resume.
- Check out website.
- Professors will excuse you if you ask to miss their class to attend the career fair.