Welcome to the homepage for Engineering Cooperative Education Program at the University of Kentucky.

This program is the traditional, engineering academic option for undergraduates and serves all seven programs in the UK College of Engineering: Biosystems and Agricultural, Chemical and Materials, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical, and Mining Engineering and Computer Science.

One-third of UK 's eligible engineering and computer science students elect to participate in co-op. Many employers located across the nation are consistent co-op partners - such as the National Security Agency, GE and NASA. Local employers such as Lexmark, Osram-Sylvania, Messer Construction, and Toyota participate. The company size is not important; the work assignments must, however, complement academic programs. Most Co-op employers request students to work for a total of three, full-time semesters (about four months each) alternated with semesters of study on campus. Typically, 90 percent of UK's co-op graduates have received job offers before receiving their diplomas. Their starting salaries are consistently in the 75th percentile of starting salaries being reported nationwide by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Fifteen percent of UK co-op graduates go on to pursue advanced degrees, securing fellowships and assistantships from such schools as UK, Purdue, GA Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins, University of Florida, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Tech, and Carnegie Mellon, and UC Berkeley.

Co-op Openings for Fall '08 online; spring '09 openings will be updated in September 2008

The Engineering Career Fair, hosted by SWE, will take place on October 8, 2008. The event is free for students. Employer registration information will be available soon.

If you are an employer please see For Employers

If you are a UK student please see For Students

If you are a high school student please visit engineering-rocks.uky.edu

Latest mail from co-ops out and about:

Ryan Schulte, NASA Co-op at Johnson Space Center in Houston

The pictures above were sent to us by Ryan Schulte, co-op on his first tour with the Aircraft Operations Division at NASA/Johnson Space Center.  Ryan was part of this flight on the so-called "vomit comet" which allows NASA to perform tests in zero gravilty.

Co-op Forms and Fact Sheets for Employers

Employer Fact Sheet (PDF)

Employer Agreement Form (Word File)

Employer Evaluation (PDF)

Employer Evaluation (Word File)

Co-op Forms and Fact Sheets for Students

Student Co-op Info Sheet (PDF) Fall 2008 - explains the process and academic aspects of Co-op at UK

Student Co-op Fact Sheet (PDF)

Position Appraisal First Term (PDF)

Position Appraisal Later Terms (PDF)

Job Data Report (PDF)

Co-op First Term Work Report Guidelines(PDF)

Co-op Later Terms Work Report Guidelines (PDF)

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