Cooperative Education

Co-op is central to the College of Engineering undergraduate program and the Northeastern experience!

The cooperative education program for engineering students has been designed to assist students to:

• Clarify short and long range personal, educational, and career goals
  
• Explore jobs in engineering or in other fields to confirm engineering as a career choice
  
• Connect what you are studying in school to your work by applying what you learn in school to what you do at work
  
• Test your values, interests, abilities and lifestyles against the realities of an engineering career
  
• Develop job-finding, job-survival, and career advancement skills
  
• Develop skills, abilities, and experience at both the technical and professional level in engineering
  
• Enhance the relevance of academic study and increase educational motivation by applying theory to practice in the world of work
  
• Enhance your understanding and appreciation of the world of work
  
• Strengthen a developing professional engineering identity by working with engineers as role models
  
• Avoid reality shock through gradual preparation for the transition from the student role to the graduate engineer role
  
• Develop job opportunities for after graduation by providing useful employer contacts, by testing employment choices as an undergraduate, and by gaining marketable experience
  
• Meet financial responsibilities

The cooperative education program has been designed also to:

• Promote collegiality between engineering education and the professional engineering community by actively involving engineering professionals in the educational experience of engineering students while on co-op
  
• Help employers to meet routine or special employment needs with high quality employees
  
• Assist employers to recruit graduates
  
• Enhance the relationship between Northeastern University and the community.

Click here for co-op information for prospective students.

Click here to visit Northeastern University Cooperative Education Home page.