Hanneman says they specifically look for schools that support co-op and intern programs with internal infrastructures that meet the company's program needs. Provision for remote registration to accommodate students at remote assignments. Selection of more co-ops and interns and increase in contributions to targeted schools. With flatter organization charts, decisions are pushed down in the organization, Hanneman notes. Students are assigned to multidisciplinary team environments with significant responsibility.
Many teams are driven by time to market, so students immediately interact with marketing and sales.
ISU requires a written agreement between the university and the company for co-op and intern programs. We signed 11 new agreements during January 1996. This trend is broad-based in size and kind of companies and in their engineering requirements. The 50 new companies range from the City of Marion, Iowa to Argonne National Laboratories to Intel Corp. to Walt Disney World. Companies may hire one or 1,000 co-op or intern students.