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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 remaining 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 responsibilities

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