Prospective Industry Members
We appreciate your interest as a potential member in the Global Engineering Excellence Initiative (GEE) and the Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP). This is a consortium of universities from around the world sponsored by Continental AG that work to prepare top engineering students to perform successfully in a global working environment.
The format for the GEE Consortium is to convene an elite group of industry and university representatives from around the world, who are interested, committed and capable of providing world-class engineering education and internship opportunities to develop a globally-competent engineering workforce.
As a result of the Global Engineering Study, the Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP) was created to provide global internship projects to students from the consortium universities. This program addresses the critical needs of preparing an engineering workforce that is prepared to tackle the myriad global challenges of the 21st century Corporation.
If you would like for your Company to be part of this groundbreaking Consortium, please see the list of requirements and benefits below. We look forward to speaking with you to answer any questions you may have about becoming a member. Please contact our GEIP Chair, Dr. Marcio Netto, for more information. We look forward to speaking with you soon.
Dr. Marcio Netto
Global Engineering Internship Program
E-Mail: marcio.netto@poli.usp.br
Please view the Powerpoint Presentation below to learn more about the Industry Presentation "Educating the Next Generation of Engineering for the Global Workplace".
Industry Requirements
- Be a company which develops, produces and supports products and services internationally.
- Provide at least 20 engineering internships per year ranging from 12 to 26 weeks .
- Provide an international project in which the student will a) go abroad, and b) interact physically or virtually with people from other cultures and countries outside of the host company culture/country.
- Encourage an internship environment in which students can gain second language capability.
- Appoint a supervisor for the intern who will mentor the student and will be responsible for evaluating the students performance.
- Appoint a student or community relations mentor for the intern.
- Offer interns compensation that at minimum covers the cost of living including transportation to work, health insurance, and the cost of travel to/from the host company country.
- Provide the project work for the intern at least 3 months before the internship commences.
- Provide necessary documents and associated fees for work permits and visas for students.
- Contribute to the academic curriculum to prepare students for the international internship.
- Appoint an official representative and advocate for the program who must attend at least one event per year, typically the kick-off meeting.
- Participate in ongoing research and analysis of the program and its components.
Industry Benefits
- Access to recruit top technical students from around the world.
- Improving the quality of the engineering graduate pool.
- Low-cost, low-risk means to recruit future leaders.
- Access to engineering faculty and universities from around the world.
- Ability to set quality benchmarks for global engineering education.
- Help shape the future of engineering education through the participation in the international research project of the program.
- Access to a like-minded global network.
- Gain global visibility among students.
- Increase global marketing exposure.
- Achieve preferred partnership status at universities.
- Opportunity to host the annual meeting.