The Engineering Co-op helps engineering students find jobs in their field. Students take a semester or a year off of school and work full time at a company, return to school and then return to the company again. We had two focus groups, one international and one American, and we asked them questions and tried to figure out what they perceive as quality attributes. Desmarais said everyone on the team did an equal share of the work and that any one of members could have represented the team at the conference. But mainly, we want to send more American students abroad to work in engineering companies.
Study abroad is wonderful, but it's a little classist.
However, we haven't seen the fruits of our labor yet. The more tangible benefit from the research that these students did and from our presentation would be what we can do to improve services across those different cultures that we work with. All articles and materials contained herein are property of the Diamondback newspaper, copyright 1998. If you'd like to reprint or reuse them, please contact us .