Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

of practice-oriented work hosted by a workplace with engineering-related functions. The academicsemesters include the upper-division coursework for each major. Included in each major‟s upper-division coursework is a senior capstone design course. The capstone project is interdisciplinary– students from each engineering major work together on selected industry-sponsored projects.The projects are selected by the faculty and typically proposed by the student in conjunction withhis/her co-op workplace colleagues.Co-op Program OverviewAll admitted undergraduate students participate in a mandatory co-op program, for a total oftwelve months of work experience, during the junior and senior year of the academic program.The cooperative education