Dear Visitor:
Thank you for your interest in the Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education (Co-op) Program. Northwestern University has a rich history in educating engineering leaders for business, industry, and government.
During the 1930's, Walter P. Murphy, a leading Chicago industrialist, gave Northwestern $36,000,000 to fund a school of engineering and to require cooperative engineering education as a pedagogical experiment. Having collaborated with Dr. Charles Kettering, an inventor and technologist as well as chief research engineer for General Motors, and Dr. Herman Schneider, the "father of cooperative education" and one of the most innovative engineering educators of the time as well as the dean of engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Mr. Murphy became convinced that cooperative education was a "superior form of engineering education."
Since 1939, Northwestern University has continuously maintained a co-op program to serve engineering students and employers. Today our alumni are CEOs, presidents, and senior executives in almost every business, industry, and organization.
At Northwestern, co-op is an educational program which allows students in
engineering to alternate periods of academic study with periods of full-time paid work experience related to their academic and professional goals. We are pleased that you are interested in the program and we invite you to join us as we educate a new generation of engineers.
