Conference Session

Collaboration Provides the Best Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Anita Todd, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

onmarket needs can be gained through the proper use of co-op evaluations.Therefore, great emphasis has been placed on developing evaluation criteria thatmeet the needs of the cooperative education programs and the ABET needs of thecollege or university. The University of Cincinnati (UC), along with manyengineering cooperative education and internship programs recognized thisassessment need, and developed new assessment tools in the late nineties inanticipation of the new ABET 2000 engineering criteria.Until 2003, evaluations were gathered on paper, making the charge of analyzing Page 12.1124.2and summarizing feedback for the departments a time consuming, if even