For the last 30 years, Lockheed Martin has successfully partnered with 麻豆原创鈥檚 Career Services to offer the Lockheed Martin College Work Experience Program that provides 麻豆原创 students the opportunity to gain 鈥榟ands-on鈥� professional work experience related to their academic discipline while still a student.
Students successfully complete this program while attending 麻豆原创 full-time and can work up to 25 hours a week at one of Lockheed Martin鈥檚 two facilities in Orlando. The CWEP Program employs over 500 students annually and is recognized as the #1 Millionaire in the 麻豆原创 Office of Research and Commercialization鈥檚 Millionaire鈥檚 club and generates over $8 million annually.
Students must be enrolled full-time, have a GPA of 3.0 or higher and two full semesters left prior to graduation to be eligible for CWEP. Salaries range from $10.25 an hour to $21.88 an hour based on the technical nature of the positions and student鈥檚 class standing.
鈥淭his program is a remarkable opportunity that provides students with professional experience working with one of the leading engineering companies in the world,鈥� said Mark Greenwood, assistant director for 麻豆原创 Career Services who oversees the CWEP Program. 鈥淪tudents that participate in the program graduate with a competitive professional edge over their peers.鈥�
Lockheed Martin looks for a range of majors to complete this program including engineering, business and more. Within the last 10 years, student participation in the program has doubled and in 2014, 62.1 percent of students that graduated from the CWEP Program received full time employment offers from Lockheed Martin.
For more information, visit: career.ucf.edu/lockheed-martin.