Parents - Here's A Great Engineering Program for Your College Student

As parents of soon-to-be college students, you are certainly evaluating which colleges and universities will be the best choice for your child. As important as the choice of college is, it is just as important to evaluate which program of study will best prepare him/her for the career and real world experiences they'll need when they graduate. Engineering is always a top field for graduates. Employers look for graduates with real-world experience gained by participation in top quality engineering co-op programs.

As a daughter of an engineer, who once aspired to join this profession myself, I heard time and time again, as my dad prepared to hire new graduates into his division, that the quality of engineering program they came from was paramount. Kettering University has one of the leading Co-op programs and maintains an edge by ensuring that they place students in companies in their freshman year and rotate them between school and their co-op job alternating every 3 months to gain practical experience from the beginning of their Kettering education. Their students are ready to add immediate value when they join their employers, this translates to higher salaries as well.

US News and World Report ranked Kettering University as "the #1 University in the nation for Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering" in its annual "America's Best Colleges Guide for 2008". As far as engineering majors go, industrial engineering is easily one of the fastest growing occupations in the world. My eldest daughter already shows propensity to enter this field. As the granddaughter of two engineers, and the niece of another, it just might be in her blood. Thankfully, the science and math programs they have now starting in elementary school are already preparing her to enter a top engineering program should she choose it. I am happy to see that the colleges, such as Kettering, are ensuring their students' future success with their co-op program.