CURRICULUM UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS ADVISING Student Handbook Co-op Paper Guide GRADUATE PROGRAMS		Guidelines for IME Co-op Paper Submission Revised April 18, 1999 If you have completed a co-op work experience of 6 months or more (note: two 3-month summer internships satisfy this requirement), you may register for an IME 497 3-credit course to count as a technical elective. The requirement for this 3-credit course is to complete a paper highlighting your co-op work experience using the following format: Cover Page Executive Summary Table of Contents Section One: Introduction Include the company or companies you worked for, a brief history of the company, the duration of your work experience, your job title, and any other background information. Section Two: Co-op Job Responsibilities Include a description of the your job responsibilities, your supervisor(s), and how you were evaluated. What typical job tasks did you accomplish? Section Three: Example Work Accomplishments Include a detailed description of two or three primary work projects you completed. Include in these descriptions the industrial and/or manufacturing engineering skills and tools you employed. How did these projects relate to courses in the IME curriculum? Section Four: Summary Please discuss the positives and negatives of your co-op experience. What would have improved the experience for you? Based on your co-op experience, what IME topics were most important? What was the most important thing you learned? This paper should be written as a professional technical report: proof your work, include page numbers, use space-and-a-half line spacing, and one-inch page margins. top of page
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