A Ph.D. Co-Op Program

伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）材料科学与工程系（MSE）与工业界建立了博士合作教育（Co-Op）项目。除了完成传统的MSE课程外，学生还在RPI管理学院学习课程，并在行业中花费大量时间，进行研究并与行业业务部门互动。该计划的总体目标是通过为学生提供获得行业所需技能的机会，同时又不失博士论文的学术严谨性，从而提高研究生院的体验。从这个项目毕业的学生可能会在几个方面对行业产生强烈的影响。他们将准备开始在他们的工业生涯中立即做出贡献。此外，得益于一个成功的学术/行业项目，他们将成为培养未来研究生的类似项目的有力支持者。

9975693SchadlerThe Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) establishes a Ph.D. cooperative education (Co-Op) program with industry. In addition to completing the traditional MSE curriculum, students take courses in the RPI School of Management and spend a sizable amount of time in industry, both doing research and interacting with industry's business units.The overall objective of this program is to enhance the graduate school experience by offering students the opportunity to acquire skills needed by industry without losing the academic rigor of a Ph.D. thesis. Students that graduate from this program may have a strong impact on industry in several ways. They will be prepared to start making immediate contributions in their industrial careers. Also, having benefited from a successful academic/industry program, they will be strong proponents of similar programs for educating future graduate students.