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Career Day 2000The parking lots were packed, the students were dressed in their Sunday best, and the SDC Gym and Gates Tennis Center were brimming with potential employers. It was Career Day 2000, and some 180 companies were on campus to recruit the latest crop of graduates for permanent hires, and they were also looking for interns and co-op students.
"We've hired ten MTU grads in the last couple of years, and they are currently working in R&D, new plant/product line design, and designing processors. Michigan Tech is one of our core universities that we are focused on. MTU grads work out well--they come out with good technical skills and excellent hands-on experience." GM Worldwide's Facilities Group was represented by Kim Williams '00, among others, who started her career there as a co-op. She is currently a utilities engineer with GM.
Herman Miller (based in Holland, Michigan), the world's second largest maker of office furniture, was hiring technical writers and materials scientists, in addition to engineering majors. Recruiter Robert Walski said they are looking primarily for co-ops and interns, but he did hire a Michigan Tech student that morning who had work in co-op for Herman Miller previously. "Through recruiting here before, I know that Tech grads can hold their own in the work place," he said. "And we are looking to diversify a bit. We don't want to just hire out of our backyard. We are looking for different majors and folks with different personal backgrounds."
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Praxair
Corporation (located in New York state), the largest industrial
gas supplier in North and South America, was looking for chemical,
mechanical, and electrical engineers; and Bill Owens '74/'78
has liked what he's seen.
"My
co-op was most helpful," she said. "It let me know what
working for GM would be like. But, the course work helped, too.
I was an ME [mechanical engineering] major, and the broad range
of courses prepared me, and the depth of information that I learned
about and was expanded on was great."