Ackerman, P., & Arcieri, K. (2022, August), Co-ops are Great! but What are the Numbers Telling Us?  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40896

\bibitem{asee_peer_40896}
  Ackerman, P., \& Arcieri, K. (2022, August), \emph{Co-ops are Great! but What are the Numbers Telling Us?}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40896

Paul Ackerman and Kelly Arcieri.  "Co-ops are Great! but What are the Numbers Telling Us?".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40896 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40896}
  Paul Ackerman and Kelly Arcieri.
  "Co-ops are Great! but What are the Numbers Telling Us?".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40896 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

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AB  - This work in progress paper will discuss the benchmark results of an engineering cooperative (co-op) program for a fairly new college civil engineering program.  Students at XYZ College are required to pursue three co-op opportunities over the course of a four year academic schedule.  Many faculty and industry personnel are familiar with the benefits that engineering co-ops provide to both students and employers.  One of the most significant benefits for the students is the opportunity to gain hands-on engineering work experience.  On the other hand, one of the most significant benefits for employers is utilizing co-op as a recruitment tool to hire entry level engineers.  However, if that is the case then engineering programs and employers could easily quantify the benefit from the co-op program by tracking the co-op and full time employment opportunities students accept.  Do co-ops increase a student’s probability of receiving a full time employment offer from their co-op employer?  Do co-op employers have a higher probability of recruiting students for full time employment?  The answers seem obvious, based on the premise that more opportunities increase probability but can it be quantified?  The benchmarking results in this paper will quantify the benefit of a co-op experience by simply compare the percentage of students who were hired by companies they previously participated in a co-op with those students who pursued employment with a company that they had no co-op experience with.  
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