Faculty Student Intern Teams

Through two new grants, one from the Blandin Foundation ($2.5 million) and the Minnesota Center of Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence ($50,000), the ICC Engineering program is starting a new internship program.

Here is how it will work:

*A company will hire a team to complete a research, testing, drafting, design, or whatever project.

*The cost to the company will be $10/hr for each student. Let's say the team has four students who work 10 hours per week, the cost to the company is $400 per week.

*The grant pays the faculty member to be part of the team. In other words, the company will get a PE to manage and take part in a project for free.

Look at the advantages:

*The students get an opportunity to learn about engineering in the actual environment and they get paid!

*The company gets 40 hours of student time and 5 hours of PE time per week for $400. And they have the opportunity to get exposure to potential future employees.

*The faculty member gets to have many teachable moments as they connect the student learning with actual engineering.

This project will last for five years. It starts this spring with us doing projects with Barr Engineering, Cirrus Design, Schwartz Redi-Mix, and UMD Medical School.

Do you have any projects that might work?