Student Opportunities
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Opportunities at the Center
The Enterprise Systems Center (ESC) is dedicated to the education of its student participants. At the ESC students are involved with real world projects and situations. Students will frequently work on site with local, regional, and national companies. In the past, company partners have included Kraft Foods, Boeing, Hatfield Meats, PennDOT (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation), and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. (Click here for a more extensive list of industry partners.) The ESC provides each student with an opportunity to stretch beyond the traditional internship and become part of a team dedicated to solving real industry problems. The Enterprise Systems Center offers flexible hours and compensates its student associates with credit hours for engineering courses or competitive pay.
Working with Lehigh University
The Enterprise Systems Center is affiliated with the industrial and manufacturing systems engineering department (IMSE) at Lehigh University. Courses, such as the IE Senior Project Class, utilize the ESC facilities and a video teleconferencing system to step beyond the traditional classroom experience and foster truly entrepreneurial thinking.
Students can also come to the center independently to do paid work on projects with private industry as well as state and federal government organizations. Though it is primarily Lehigh students who are involved with the center, students from universities such as Penn State, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, and Bucknell have also participated.
Student Experiences
"Working at the ESC, I've really been able to put those skills to use by working outside of the school and working with different vendors, so it's less academic and more real-life experience."
- - Colleen Sullivan
"As everyone knows, business is made up of teams, and working with the ESC gave me an opportunity to work with a team and gave us an opportunity to bring out the best in each other."
- - Justin Woodruff
"By coming here and having worked now with Lehigh, having worked on my own, the leadership opportunities have far exceeded what I ever thought that they would have been."
- - Mike Rinkunas
