Engineering Internships/Cooperative Program

<p>Has anyone had any thoughts or discussion of how persasive student internships are for U of I engineering students ? How many years are students able to obtain these? It will seem to allow the student to earn more that otherwise possible by other minimum wage jobs, and provide invaluable experience. How hard are these to get? How do they generally work?</p>

<p>Anyone have any knowledge, thoughts, experiences with the Cooperative programs-engineering dept. type students. have ??</p>