The Glenn Cooperative (Co-op) Education Program combines a student's academic study with a paid career-related work experience. Cooperative education provides students with a better understanding of human relations and offers practical experience that relates academic studies to work.
The NASA Glenn Cooperative Education Program consists of a series of planned work assignments combined with alternative periods of academic study in the science, engineering, professional administration, and trades fields. Student Trainees will work under the guidance of qualified personnel performing duties directly related to the field for which they are being trained. While successful completion of the program and graduation from college are prerequisites for appointment to a career position, they do not necessarily guarantee such an appointment.