Learn and work

MAY 01, 1949

Students study five months of the year and hold down fulltime jobs for another five months in the cooperative education plan at Antioch College. How this works out for physics students is described by a faculty member who finds that for students to work while learning helps them learn by working.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066494

G. E. Owen

A personnel officer considering the placement of students had the following jobs to fill: The Mine Safety Appliance Company of Pittsburgh wanted laboratory assistants; a patent attorney in Harrisburg, Pa. wanted a physics major to work in his office; the Quartz Research Project at Antioch College wanted men to operate high pressure, high temperature autoclaves, and the controlling and recording devices that go with them; the Biology Department at MIT wanted an assistant in a research project in biophysics to develop some techniques for spectroscopy under a microscope.

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G. E. Owen, Antioch College.