Work In Progress: Using Internships as Means for Indirect Assessment of ABET Criteria 3 "1-7" Student Outcomes
- Portland State University
PSU operates the Power Engineering Internship program with funding from two U.S. Department of Energy grants. The program is operated in partnership with the lead organizations of these grants, an investor-owned utility, Portland General Electric (PGE), and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs (CTWS). One of the programmatic goals of the PEI is to create and sustain a clean energy engineering workforce pipeline on behalf of these lead organizations. Both grants support internships at PGE, which is also a partner on the CTWS grant. The PEI provides engineering students with year-long internships, spanning both the academic year and the summer. The interns work at PGE facilities located throughout the Portland metropolitan area. Interns are employed full-time during summers and part-time during the academic year. Proximity of the worksites to the PSU campus enables the interns to participate in the program while attending school full-time. During the academic year, students average fifteen hours per week, adjusting their work schedule according to their academic workload. The interns are allocated 930 hours per year, 480 in the summer and 450 during the academic year, which they can plan as they see fit. The internships provide meaningful financial support for the students, who can earn up to $21k if they use all of their allocated hours. Such funding is particularly important for the typical student who attends a minority serving institutions,
- Research Organization:
- Portland State Univ., OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0010651
- OSTI ID:
- 3006835
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-PGE-10651
- Resource Relation:
- 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Palais des congres de Montreal, Montreal, QC
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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