Annual Report

Helping students add paid, educationally relevant work experience to their education is important at the University of Tennessee.

As we move through 2020, 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.

Recent Key Accomplishments

• The fall 2019 Engineering Expo was our largest ever with 108 employers and 1104 students attending.
• The spring 2019 Engineering Expo was our largest employer-attended spring event in our history, with 92 employers and 807 students attending.
• We had over 1,300 students, faculty, and staff attend the fall 2019 Engineering Cookout, making it one of the largest annual engineering events at UT.
• In March 2018, we held the seventh annual Engineering Professional Practice Spring Banquet.
• In AY19, 42 percent of graduating engineering seniors completed at least one co-op or internship assignment during their time at UT. Over the past ten years of senior classes, on average,