Thanks to the University of Waterloo co-op program and her passion for improving the healthcare system through technology, Madison McBay (BSc ‘22) co-founded the startup TAMVOES, an online platform for individuals to store and share their health information with family members and professionals.
The University of Waterloo is compared to Californian schools in Computer Science by overall rank, student employability, program size, research capabilities and entrepreneurship.
After helping her daughter find her first co-op, Lenora Fleming donates to programs like WE Accelerate to help co-op students find employment.
Recipients of the third annual Employer Impact Awards have provided students with work-integrated learning opportunities that better prepare them for the future workforce.
Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate program is announced as an ongoing option for co-op students who struggle to secure a traditional co-op job in their first work term.
R+T Park has hired many co-op students including Rose Matthews who helps to coordinate events through both digital and in-person engagement.
Colleen Philips-Davis becomes associate director of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism (EDI-R) in Co-operative and Experiential Education. Co-operative education will change to deepen staff knowledge and to future-proof students through an EDI-R lens.
Waterloo Mechanical Engineering student Orianna Min develops her Elpis startup through Enterprise Co-op Program (E Co-op). The story in Waterloo News highlights Min’s business, which uses biotechnology to assist people living with spinal cord injuries.
In this article, David Drewery and Katie Knapp explore students’ organizational commitment pertaining to workplace friendships. This study found that organizational commitment is greater when work experience quality is greater. Additionally, workplace friendships still developed during remote work-integrated learning.
David Drewery, Judene Pretti and Anne-Marie Fannon’s article analyzes the quality of work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences. WIL stakeholders can benefit from the LIRN model (learning, impact, relevance and networking) to provide excellent work experiences.