Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Mercedes Echevarria, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island; Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island

Tagged Topics

Student Development

student working at the same company has extremely strong programmingskills and prefers hands-on projects, which led the company to choose him as the ideal candidateto assist them with a variety of tasks relating to information technology and quality management.Both students also have ample opportunity to develop equally important soft skills, likeinterpersonal, professional and intercultural communication, as they participate regularly inmeetings and presentations with not only their Chilean colleagues and clients, but also withsuppliers and manufacturers from around the world.Each intern has a supervisor and mentor within the company, as well as an academic mentorfrom URI. The credit and grading structure for the internships is all handled