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Summer Engineering Experience Summer Business Experience
As one of the founding programs Nearly two years in the making, this
within the Cor Jesu Corporate Partners summer was the inaugural year of
Initiative (CPI), SEE Week continues Cor Jesu’s SBE Week – a program
to offer rising juniors and seniors the modeled on SEE Week, but with an
opportunity to immerse themselves in emphasis on the world of business and
the field of engineering as they discover the many careers associated with it.
and explore a wide variety of industry Without missing a beat, students and
disciplines. Each day, the participants corporate partners transitioned to a
work with a different hosting team, virtual format, and were excited to be
taking part in hands-on activities and the first to embark on this journey.
in-depth interactions to really experience
all that being an engineer can mean. The 15 student participants were divided
into three groups. Each group was
In order to apply the learnings of the tasked with creating their own proposed
week, students are divided into small business as a means of applying the
groups and charged with presenting business concepts they learned from
a case study reflective of the key each SBE corporate host throughout
aspects of the week’s content. This the week. At week’s end, the students
year, we completed the final case study presented their business plans via Zoom
presentations via Zoom with corporate to a panel of corporate partners, CJA
hosts, CJA faculty and staff, and parents faculty and staff, and parents, and fielded
listening in. The students excelled just as comments and questions. A big thank you
they have in years past. Thank you to our to our SBE hosts for giving our students
hosts for taking the time to transition your interested in business such a rare and
amazing programs to a virtual platform! extraordinary insight into the field!

Rebecca Beth Lamping
Spengemann Tiffin ‘84
Donohue ‘90 Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President and Relationship
and Strategist, Manager,
Triplebow Bank of America

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