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Gayle Elliott
earned BS and MS degrees from University of Cincinnati, and
is currently assistant professor in the Division of Professional
Practice. She is responsible for the University's International
Co-op Program (ICP), and for placing one-third (100 annually)
of UC’s mechanical engineering students in co-op jobs in the
US. Initially part of the College of Engineering, Gayle has
worked with the International Engineering Co-op Program since
1993. In 1998 she created and began working with similar programs
in the College of Business and the College of Design, Architecture,
Art and Planning. Under her direction the ICP has grown from
ten engineers, working in Germany and Japan, to over 30 students,
working annually in Germany, Japan, Mexico, and Chile. Gayle's
responsibilities with the international program include:
- Teaching Orientation to International Co-op, a class to
prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of
living and working abroad.
- Development of international co-op learning modules.
- Individual student teaching to help guide students toward
integrating classroom and co-op learning experiences with
personal goals for an international co-op assignment.
- Identifying companies and developing partnerships to create
co-op job opportunities with international companies in
the US and abroad.
- Working with language faculty to develop specialized intensive
language and culture programs that prepare students to work
abroad.
- Program evaluation and assessment.
Gayle has been invited
to make presentations at conferences including the URI IEP
Colloquiums, NAFSA, Ohio Cooperative Education Association
[OCEA], World Association for Cooperative Education [WACE],
and the Global International Internship Congress. She is co-author
of publications which include: Introduction to Professional
Practice Centennial Edition , McGraw Hill; "Globalizing
Engineers through International Co-op", Metropolitan Universities;
"Professional Development and Globalization: The International
Co-op Program at the University of Cincinnati", Proceedings
of the 2004 Global International Internship Congress; “Strategies
for International Internship Placement in Engineering and
Related Technical Fields” (pending), Proceedings of the 2005
Global International Internship Congress; “Developing Cross-Cultural
Competencies through International Co-op Programs” (pending),
Proceedings of the World Association for Cooperative Education
(WACE), 14th World Conference on Cooperative Education.
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