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Co-op students need to be given fun projects for a good experience. They need to be given lots of mentorship to learn. Essentially it's a lot of time for a supervisor, they should be aware of this commitment. We don't wanna be a "co-op mill" where people come to get the credit and accomplish/learn absolutely nothing bc they spent their time doing boring stuff.
Criteria
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Qualifications
The co-op supervisors must possess:
Previous management experience or demonstrated readiness: Project Manager Promotion Criteria
A co-op supervisor must not be learning how to manage for the 1st time on a co-op student
Experience as a WARG PM, Industry PM, or WARG lead is preferred
Be on campus:
Academic (school) term or employed on UW main campus (e.g. research assistant to a professor)
Academic term 2A or above
SDC requirement is 3A or above but can be waived if WARG deems it applicable.
Having multiple strong co-op experiences is important to learn about best practices to ensure the co-op student is successful, generally meeting this requirement requires being an upper year.
Capability
The co-op supervisor must be able to:
Assign meaningful projects with clear tasks
Give rapid critical useful feedback
Quickly understand and root cause any issues the co-op student may encounter
Teach useful technical concepts and skills
Hands on learning for the co-op student
Commit at least 7 hours per week to supporting the co-op student, which includes daily syncs scheduled for at least 30 minutes
The non sync time is spent on support (e.g. planning, research and experimentation, reviews)
This is in addition to the time you already spend on WARG (e.g. subteam meetings, flight tests)
If there are periods of time where you are not able to fulfill this (e.g. exams), you must find another member to temporarily take these responsibilitiesThis is in addition to the time you already spend on WARG (e.g. subteam meetings, flight tests)
SDC criteria
TODO
To be a co-op supervisor we strongly prefer some managerial experience. This can include being a project manager or subteam lead at WARG. management is hard and we don’t want our managers to be learning for the first time on co-op students. in the past this has usually been subteam leads, but this really isn’t a requirement. Note that for F24 we are expanding into general members and advisors as possible co-op supervisors, but this needs to be backed up with clear signs of readiness.
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