COE student named Co-Op of the Year
Richard Ingle, an electrical engineering student at Georgia Tech, was recently named the 2007 Student of the Year by the Cooperative Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (CED-ASEE). Ingle is a senior and has a 4.0 cumulative grade point average. Through Georgia Tech’s Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) he has completed four co-op work terms with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and an internship with the U.S. Department of Defense in Ft. Meade, Maryland.
Georgia Tech’s DoPP is the home of the fourth oldest cooperative education program in the United States. The Division consists of four unique programs – Undergraduate Cooperative Education, Graduate Cooperative Education, Undergraduate Professional Internship (UPI), and Work Abroad Programs. Ingle participated in the Undergraduate Professional Internship which is for juniors and seniors.
While at NASA, Ingle worked on a variety of projects including the design of a dashboard display unit and developing electrical systems drawings for the International Space Station Japanese Experiment Module. Ingle has been involved with Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
More than 3,000 Georgia Tech students currently participate in the four separate DoPP Program, all of which are voluntary. DoPP co-op students and interns are employed by more than 1,000 businesses and organizations, worldwide – ranging from small privately owned enterprises to major multi-national corporations and governmental agencies.