Chemical Engineering Cooperative Education Opportunity
Cooperative Education (Co-op) provides valuable career
experience for engineering students. Participating in Co-op
allows you to experience first-hand what a career in
engineering is all about by alternating paid work and school
every other semester upon completing the sophomore year of
courses. The Co-op plan is an essential part of total
engineering aptitude. While academics measure a student's
reasoning power, capacity for thinking through a problem and
his/her total intellectual qualification, relevant work
experience measures his/her ability to find the fit and to
adjust to work and life as they are found in industry. A Co-op
typically earns the range of $10.00 - $21.00 an hour each work
period, depending on the branch of engineering and the
geographic location.
The Cooperative Education Program was initiated at The
University of Akron in 1914 and has established an Engineering
Co-op relationship with over 1500 companies in 20 different
states. In Spring 2002, Summer 2002, and / or Fall 2002,
Chemical Engineering students had co-op placement with the
following employers:
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- A.E. Ehrke Company
- Ashland Chemical
- BPAmoco
- Bridgestone Firestone
- Caterpillar
- Chardon Rubber Company
- Compressor Dynamics
- Cleveland Clinic
- Dupont Dow Elastomers
- Eliokem
- ElTech Systems
- Equistar
- Erico
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- First Energy/Perry Nuclear
- General Electric
- GoJo Industries
- The Hoover Company
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Lubrizol Corporation
- Mach I Compounding
- PolyOne
- Tenneco automotive
- Wellman, Inc.
- Wright Patterson AFB
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