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 to $21 an hour each work period, depending on the branch of engineering and the geographic location.

• Chemical Engineering Co-op Salaries

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:

• 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