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Summer Immersions

In June, Cor Jesu held its second annual Summer Business Experience (SBE) Week and its eighth
annual Summer Engineering Experience (SEE) Week for rising juniors and seniors. In light
of corporate visitation restrictions, both programs were adapted to on-campus experiences
where students had ample opportunity for meaningful and personal engagements with an
impressive team of 36 dynamic corporate partners, representing a wide variety of careers.

CORPORATE PARTNERS INITIATIVE

Summer Business Experience (SBE)
SBE Week evolved into a new, in-person format in
2021 (owing to the pandemic, it was virtual in 2020).
Prior to the week, participants were split into teams
and each chose a business model to which they would
apply their daily learnings. Each day (Monday-Thursday) Summer Engineering Experience (SEE)
focused on a specific business area, including HR/ In its eighth year, SEE Week pivoted, once again, from
company culture, marketing/branding, finance, and its traditional model of spending days at the engineering
leadership/strategy/vision. Each morning, students sites, to bringing the engineering professionals and
listened to presentations by business professionals experiences to CJA’s campus. Each day, student
related to those key subject areas. Lunchtime provided participants were immersed in a different aspect of
students the opportunity to converse with presenters engineering with a combination of presentations
in a more relaxed setting. In the afternoons, student and hands-on activities led by professionals.
teams worked Working in teams, students spent time throughout the
career discovery
Thank you to this year's with their assigned week creating their final presentation, based on Grand
Challenges related to the engineering industry. Grand
company team leads! professional coach,
incorporating Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation
what they learned to solve key global health and development problems.
that day into their Before the week began, each team chose a Grand
own business. On Challenge and was
Friday, each team Thank you to our SEE Week charged with applying
And sincere thanks for the presented their corporate partners! their daily learnings
time and dedication of business model toward a solution,
this year's student team capstones to which they presented
professional coaches! corporate partners, to a group of corporate
• Jeff Evenson partners, faculty,
• Cassie Sperruzza professional staff and parents to
Farner ‘11 coaches, faculty,
• Rob Funke staff and parents. conclude the week.
• Megan Pitlyk
Vollmer ‘08

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