Preparation and submission of written reports based on cooperative program assignments. Required of all students on cooperative programs during the summer or other semester when on work assignments with cooperative program employers.

• Engineering studies in classrooms are integrated with learning through hands-on work experiences in a related engineering field.
• Successful internships promote an experiential learning process for students to become more prepared in a real engineering world.

ME 198 fills a degree requirement for the Associate of Science with Engineering emphasis, for which the mission is to prepare students for successful transfer into civil, chemical, computer, electrical, geological, mechanical, metallurgical, or mining engineering, or computer science, or engineering physics. ME 198 addresses the specific program student learning outcome:
• [Students] are able to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems
• [Students] are able to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data