UHart Partnership with Electric Boat will Provide Job
and Internship Opportunities
Kate Darcy Hohenthal, assistant director of student engagement and experiential
education in Career Services, has worked with Electric Boat representatives to
obtain a guarantee of eight internships for engineering students. In addition
to these eight positions, the University of Hartford will compete with nine
other higher education institutions to fill another anticipated 80 internship
openings for summer 2016.
Over the next five years, Electric
Boat has projected it will have 5,000 jobs to fill due to retirements and
through the building of 10 new submarines. In order to maximize this
opportunity, Hohenthal, together with Julie Spring, director of
collegiate student services in CETA, and Barney School faculty member Celia
Lofink, worked with student clubs and organizations to bring Electric Boat
to campus on Nov. 10. Special thanks to the student clubs and organizations,
which hosted this Electric Boat event: ASA (Acoustical Society of America),
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), ASME (American Society of
Mechanical Engineers), IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic
Engineers), BGS (Beta Gamma Sigma), BLC (Barney Leadership Council), and GIS
(Gamma Iota Sigma).
Eric Simonelli, college relations human resource specialist for Electric
Boat, and Stephanie Davis, internship and co-op program recruitment
coordinator, provided students with an overview of Electric Boat and the
internship and job opportunities that are available. They discussed the
application process and demonstrated how to apply via the Electric Boat
website. University of Hartford alumna Tiffany Cartier '09, M'12, who
works as a structural engineer at Electric Boat, shared her experience
transitioning from being a student to becoming an Electric Boat employee.
Career Services is working to bring
Electric Boat back to campus for additional career readiness events. Upcoming
events will be posted to CareerBridge.
Unotes - 11/19/15
K. Hohenthal
