Gunn, C. J. (2012, June), Co-ops and Their Communication Needs  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21077

\bibitem{asee_peer_21077}
  Gunn, C. J. (2012, June), \emph{Co-ops and Their Communication Needs}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21077

Craig J. Gunn.  "Co-ops and Their Communication Needs".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21077 Internet.  27 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21077}
  Craig J. Gunn.
  "Co-ops and Their Communication Needs".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21077 Internet.  27 Jul, 2024

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AB  -                        Co-ops and Their Communication NeedsFor over 10 years the Cooperative Engineering Education program at XXX provided a workshopin communication for its students going out on their first co-op. The 3-hour workshop addresseda range of topics that will be provided in the paper while addressing needs that students mighthave in the real world. It was a rushed effort to remind students quickly about what they neededto think about during their co-op experience. They left campus almost immediately and becameimmersed in their work. When the co-op finished they produced reports detailing what they hadlearned from the co-op. They were required to write of their experience fourteen weeks after theinitial workshop. It became easy to see that the workshop was really only a poor preparation for apaper produced much later and not a good introduction to necessary communication skillacquisition or remembrance. The issue of communication in the real world was lost in most ofthe co-ops’ minds. When it was realized that not enough was being done for the students’ needs,the current structure of addressing communication was implemented without the workshop.The new plan attempts to bring students closer to the communication activities of the workplaceand to allow them to see the importance of communication along with their technical expertise.In changing the focus of the experience from only personal acquisition of information on theworking world to a broader involvement in actual communication activities, communicationbecame more centrally focused and valuable to the co-ops. The paper addresses the original ideaof the workshop idea combined with the present approach to suggest that by combining bothefforts together, the co-op will receive the most value for the experience.Surveys of students and employers concerning communication will help to show the importanceof a continuous stream of communication focus in the life of an engineering co-op.
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