Helping students add paid, educationally relevant work experience to their education is important at the University of Tennessee.
As we move through 2023 and into 2024, we continue to see unprecedented growth in student and employer participation and now the expansion of our program beyond traditional co-ops and internships into other areas of engineering student enrichment. Our program, which helps students add experience to their education, has been in existence since 1926. It’s the second oldest program of its kind in the south and one of the nation’s oldest. We are dedicated to helping engineering students find educationally relevant paid co-op and internship positions with one of our hundreds of participating employers.
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Top 30 Employers
ORNL continues to place the most co-op students, with DENSO, Altec, Southern Company, Eastman Chemical Company, and others consistently placing students year after year.
Top Employers Placements: Academic Year 2017-2018
Engineering Expo
Employer Attendance is on the Rise
Our program has experienced consistent growth in Engineering Expo employer attendance since AY2010-11. After a record-setting employer attendance in the fall of 2018 and the spring of 2019, our employer attendance in fall of 2019 again set a new record for employer participation
Student Attendance is Strong
The student attendance at the 2019 spring and fall expos have set new records. The fall student attendance was a nearly 14 percent year-over-year increase over fall 2018 and a 326 percent increase over fall 2010, while the increase in student attendance in spring 2019 was a 22 percent year-over-year increase and a 271 percent increase over 2010.