Students in the B.S. CHE Program

Students with satisfactory academic standing at the end of their fourth semester may elect to participate in the “Co-Op” program. This fifteen month program, which is undertaken during the junior year, involves a combination of two fourteen week periods of supervised (paid) professional experience as a junior engineer separated by a regular academic term and either followed or preceded by a summer term at Orono. Participating students must register for six credits but, in general, these cannot be substituted for the courses required for the BS degree. Student who plan to take their co-op work experience within the Pulp and Paper sector are strongly advised to take the Introductory course PPA 264 prior to their first co-op term. For such students this course will be considered as a technical elective.

Students in the B.S. BLE Program

Students who are engaged in engineering related summer jobs under the direction of the program’s cooperative (co-op) coordinator can earn three credits toward their technical elective credits through the cooperative education program, following an approved work experience sequence in the field of study.