Find out what some of our alumni are saying!

Past students tell us that the classroom as a key place to practice skills before going into co-op.

One former students said: "I think it is important that you learn that [team work] because when you go in the real world you are going to be working with different types of people." 

Another former student explained that had they known how strongly complementary studies linked to job demands, they might have taken these courses more seriously: "...when you are starting your program what are employers looking for? ... people with ... more focus on the business aspect or ...people with good writing skills, or [are they]really looking for technical people, or computer savvy? [It] would probably be useful to help say oh well employers are interested in having this and this kind of focus, maybe I should take some electives that should associate with that."
 
Graduates of the programs said that their complementary studies courses offered “a different kind of thinking", "free form", "definitely gave some exposure to different perspective.", and that they "emphasized having a thesis ... making a statement and actually backing it up."

One student said "I feel that the biggest thing that complementary studies courses have done is, it takes you out of the engineering environment basically ... [it puts you] somewhere where you're not necessarily familiar with the environment... how things are typically done and it, it shows you that different ways of doing things and highlights some of these ways ... you kind of have to do something you're not comfortable with necessarily."