Eligible students are allowed either alternating or parallel periods of study and employment. The work experience type and duration will be designed to meet the student's particular partner company's requirements. The duration of one work experience will be a minimum of six months, and is based on either alternating or parallel study and employment. If the work experience is parallel to the study of engineering, then the hours of cooperative employment shall be a minimum of ten hours per week to a maximum of twenty hours per week. The cooperative education advisory staff will make the determination as to whether or not the placement will have 'direct engineering educational value' relative to the student's aea of concentration.
Flexibility is a key component in the placing of students with a prospective employer.