New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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many students benefit from co-op program The University operates several cooperative educational plans with federal, state, county, university and private agencies to enable students to acquire practical experience in their chosen fields. Cooperative education at the university be- gan in 1952 with the establishment of the White Sands Missile Range Program. Since that time agreements have been reached with the New Mexico Highway Department Physical Plant De- partment, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Lea County Board of Commissioners, Physical Sci- ence Laboratory, Boeing Company, Ling-Temco- Vought, Inc., Federal Communications Commis- sion, Kirtland Air Force Base, and Phillips Petro- leimi Company. The greater part of the cooperative students are chosen from majors in engineering, mathma- tics, and physics, but a program for students of teacher education has been recentlv added. Women students are accepted only by teacher Education and by White Sands Missile Range. To be eligible for cooperative training a stu- dent must demonstrate more than average scho- lastic ability. The minimum grade average varies but all employers are inclined to accept the best students available. Students usually attend the university for at least one semester before being placed on a job. This enables the student to prove his scholastic ability as well as bring additional scientific knowl- edge to his work. Cooperative students live in student housing and eat in the cafeteria while they are on school- phase and also while on work -phase in the vicin- ity of the university. They are expected to enjoy the same privileges and obey the same regulations as other students. Electrical engineering major, Lee R. Smith, tunes the telementrv package for an instrumentation package at the Instrumentation Division White Sands Missile Range. John R. Carpenter, sophomore electrical engineering major at New Mexico State Unixersity, performs main- tanence on an electronic multiplier. 28

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Classes are offered to both majors, and others wlio wish to improve or pick up new skills. Many Courses are offered to teach useful xocational skills such as this one in t ping. 27

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%. • fi fiiifc ' . L 1 At the atmospheric sciences office at W ' liite Sands Missile Ran j;e. h ' I in L. Ronsh tests a demultiplexer. Fourth ear coop program student. Ralph P. ' Shelton. adjusts ' a TR 10 Ana- logue computer in his experiment. Christopher A. Eddy, working at White Sands Missile Range acceptance testing branch, tests an Askinia camera as part of his job. 29