Co-op Paper Submission Guidelines

If you have completed a co-op work experience of 6 months or more (note: two 3-month summer internships satisfy this requirement), you can receive credit for IME 497, a technical elective offered in the IME department. The requirement for this 3-credit course is to complete a paper highlighting your co-op work experience using the following format:

1. Cover Page
   
   
2. Executive Summary
   
   
3. Table of Contents
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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?
   
   
6. 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?
   
   
7. 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.