MECOP is an internship program designed to enhance and expand industry driven internships in cooperation with Oregon universities. Our objective is to provide the highest quality interns for northwest industries and applicable real-world work experience for students.



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About Us

Unique among cooperative programs, the Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program and the Civil Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP and CECOP), currently used by multiple Oregon universities, demonstrates the power of an effective business/education partnership. The source of strength for these programs is the imaginative ideas they are founded upon: support by a voluntary annual assessment on member companies; insisting upon a high order of industry interaction with the university and its students; and continual improvement as the university adjusts its curriculum on recommendations made by the industry partners.

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Participating Universities

Oregon State University
Oregon Institute of Technology
Portland State University
University of Portland

Benefits

For Students
  • Real work experience
  • Two paid six-month internships
  • Opportunity to experience two work environments, management styles etc.
  • Exposure and connections to over 125 of the Northwest's best companies and their working engineers
  • Gain "insider" career choice knowledge
  • Make more informed course selections
  • Learn academic and personal strengths and weaknesses from experience
  • Finance all or a major portion of your education
  • Develop the ability to understand and grasp course content upon return to the university
  • Develop maturity, confidence, enthusiasm and a higher starting salary
For Companies
  • Input into the university’s curriculum
  • Improve industry-faculty relations
  • Access to a pool of well-trained, potential employees
  • Address issues or projects which full-time engineers may not have the time or skill to perform
  • Six-month preview of an individual without an obligation to hire
  • Inject enthusiasm and interest into the companies
  • Develop or improve company’s ability to bring on new hires
  • Bottom line: it’s a good business decision
For Universities
  • Industrial sites are an extension of laboratories that are not possible to maintain at the university
  • Develop a bridge between the classroom and industry
  • Support toward the development of programs and other issues facing education
  • Network for faculty relations and research
  • Returning interns are more motivated students

Participating Companies

8 of over 140 companies which are MECOP members. View all companies.

Dudek
City of Springfield
Gerber Legendary Blades
Vestas Americas
Harper Houf Peterson Righellis, Inc.
Eaton
Willamette Valley Company
Cambia Health Solutions

Testimonials

My job is to provide on-site computer support while fielding a system upgrade to the Solidworks software package currently in use. The company got an employee that is knowledgeable in a field they needed and dedicated to the project without taking valuable staff away from projects they are better suited to and I got experience fielding a system, evaluating hardware and software upgrades, working with a team of busy professionals and planning and working to a deadline.

Steven Munn, Intern

Working as a process engineer intern for Tektronix, Inc. has been an incredible experience. In a broad sense, I assist in maintaining and improving the manufacturing flow for several of our main product lines. Most of my key projects reflect Tektronix™ relatively recent surge to transition into a completely lean manufacturing environment. Largely, this involves turning our traditional manufacturing lines into lean cells process centered around removing as much waste as possible in the forms of excess motion, inventory, transportation and more. As my projects wrap up, it is a great feeling to see something I've worked so hard on become a reality and to see how my decisions affect a ...

Hillary Shoop, Intern

My name is Colby Fleck and I work as a CECOP Intern for the Transportation Division of the City of Springfield Public Works Department. As an intern, I have a variety of tasks in my regular workload. My duties include performing intersection turn counts and ADT tube counts, updating Transportation Division maps and as-builts as needed, reviewing encroachment permits, issuing work-orders, handling civilian service requests, utilizing crash data and signal timing data, in conjunction with traffic-specific software, to analyze safety and efficiency of signalized intersections throughout Springfield, managing small projects, reviewing public improvement projects to ensure lighting, signage, si...

Colby Fleck, Intern
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