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Contact: Dan
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“We've
offered the co-op program to our students for two
decades now, and we've seen outstanding results
from the relationships our students build with
the industries they serve during their co-ops.
We’re especially pleased that two of the
nation’s five best co-op students this year
come from the UK College of Engineering."
-- Thomas
W. Lester,
dean,
UK College of Engineering
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (March 18, 2004) -- Two UK
College of Engineering students have been
ranked among the top five engineering cooperative
education students in the nation by the cooperative
education division of the American
Society of Engineering Education.
Amy
Sandman and Tim Arrowsmith recently received the
recognition at the society’s annual Conference
for Industry and Education Collaboration in Biloxi,
Miss.
In
the College
of Engineering’s co-op program, students
receive academic credit for work and research performed
for a corporation at a company facility. The co-op
assignment generally lasts a semester. Frequently,
companies will hire co-op students who have worked
for them upon the students’ graduation.
“We've
offered the co-op program to our students for two
decades now, and we've seen outstanding results
from the relationships our students build with
the industries they serve during their co-ops.
We’re especially pleased that two of the
nation’s five best co-op students this year
come from the UK College of Engineering,” college
Dean Thomas W. Lester said.
The
award is based on scholarship, performance, innovation
at work and leadership on campus.
Sandman,
a mechanical engineering major scheduled to graduate
in May 2005, was nominated by UK with support from
her co-op employer, DuPont Washington Works in
Parkersburg, W.Va. She is president of the Society
of Women Engineers student section at UK and holds
a regional position with the organization, managing
more than 20 student sections in Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ohio. She also is a member of
the national Tau
Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, the engineering
equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa.
She
is a graduate of Ballard High School in Louisville.
Arrowsmith,
also scheduled to graduate in May 2005, was nominated
by his co-op employer, ADTRAN of Huntsville, Ala.,
a supplier of network innovations and tools to
telecommunications corporations such as Cisco Systems
and AT&T. He is finishing his third rotation
with the company.
He
was instrumental in resurrecting the Triangle engineering
fraternity at UK and serves as the fraternity’s
vice president of community service. He is also
a member of the national Tau Beta Pi Engineering
Honor Society.
Arrowsmith
is a graduate of Paul G. Blazer High School in
Ashland.
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