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Delphi sparks international program

The International Education and Internship Program has an enthusiastic new corporate partner: Delphi Packard Electric Systems, a division of General Motors.

This year, three engineering students had international internships with the Ohio-based company. Next year, Delphi hopes to place four interns, two in Singapore and one each in Germany and Australia. More positions and sites may be available in subsequent years.

"We've had a very positive experience with this program, so we'd like to see it grow," said Lynn Long, BSIE'84. "It gives us an opportunity to see what a student can do, and it gives the student an opportunity to understand what it means to be a part of a corporation that has worldwide operations.

"Increasingly, engineering graduates will be asked to consider overseas assignments," Long added. "Our program gives students a chance to discover if that's something that might interest them."

Long is a senior product business planner with Delphi. She gets occasional breaks from her regular duties to recruit ISU students for all divisions of General Motors.

The first participants in Delphi's international internship program were Cliff Denson, Thomas Darwis, and Ryan Jenner. Denson, ME, worked and studied in Singapore. Darwis, ME, spent two months in Singapore and two months in Australia, and Jenner, IE, will be in Germany until early summer.

Delphi brought Jenner back to campus to participate in its recent recruiting efforts. He was working at a Saturn plant in Wuppertal, Germany, studying wiring systems on the 2004 models. He will spend the late spring and early summer months completing IE courses at a German university.

An international internship has been a positive experience for Jenner. "This has been a great opportunity for me," he said. "It's made me more aware of my options, and it's given me a great deal of confidence in my ability to succeed on my own. I will definitely consider living and working abroad after graduation."