Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

explored students’ perceptions of their preparedness for the Co-Op work.In general, we found that students felt they were moderately prepared by their course work towork in the Co-Op program, except that many students reported they needed more knowledgeof the industrial standards. Another major challenge students met in the workplace was tocommunicate with clients. Those findings indicate that engineering educators need to betterprepare students with knowledge and skills for workplace engineering. Students also indicatedthat the Co-Op experience helped them develop better engineering knowledge and skills, suchas knowledge of industrial standards, communication skills, which confirms findings fromprevious research that cooperative education is a