<p>My D wants to study Chem E. Doing a Coop program is very important to her. Carnegie Mellon does not have a formal Coop program but does have something called the PISCES program specifically for Chem E. majors. How does the program differ from a traditional Coop experience?</p>
<p>I hadn’t heard of PISCES before, but giving it a quick look it seems to differ in that you work for a company the year after your junior year, for up to an entire year. Most Co-op programs I’m familiar with you spend a semester and some of your summers there. </p>
<p>The Materials Science & Engineering department offers a more traditional co-op if you want to compare. I mention MSE because a good number of people that come in planning ChemE wind up switching to MSE when they realize ChemE is Flow In = Flow Out, and they wanted to study more than that. ;)</p>