{"id":58130,"date":"2016-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/bmw-cruises-onto-uri-campus-monday-to-recruit-students-from-international-engineering-program\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"bmw-cruises-onto-uri-campus-monday-to-recruit-students-from-international-engineering-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/bmw-cruises-onto-uri-campus-monday-to-recruit-students-from-international-engineering-program\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW cruises onto 溏心vlog免费B站 campus Monday to recruit students from International Engineering Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGTON, R.I., March 9, 2016\u2014A BMW cruised onto the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus on Monday, a sparkling white sports car with a top speed of 155 miles per hour. But don\u2019t worry. It never moved.<\/p>\n


\nThe hybrid car\u2014a BMW i8, to be exact\u2014was parked outside the International Engineering Program\u2019s buildings on Upper College Road for the day while BMW representatives interviewed engineering and business students for internships.<\/p>\n


\nIt was BMW\u2019s first visit to the Kingston campus and, if crowd size is a measure of enthusiasm, probably not the company\u2019s last. Dozens of students, mostly from the International Engineering Program and International Business Program, turned out for the interviews, and many posed for a photograph with the car later.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s very special for BMW to be here,\u201d said IEP director Sigrid Berka, who organized the visit. \u201cBMW is the No. 1 desired employer in Germany. I\u2019m very happy to host them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe award-winning five-year IEP program offers a dual degree in an engineering field and a language\u2014Chinese, French, German, Italian or Spanish, with Japanese on the horizon. Students spend a year studying abroad and participating in an internship. The program is thriving: nearly all of the graduates find jobs, including some with BMW.<\/p>\n


\nSeven 溏心vlog免费B站 students are working with BMW\u2014two at the Munich headquarters and the others at BMW Manufacturing in South Carolina and at BMW of North America in New Jersey, including Dennis Heaphy and Eric Sargent, both IEP graduates.<\/p>\n


\nHeaphy and Sargent told the students that the IEP program did a great job preparing them to work at BMW. Not only did they learn a new language, they learned how different countries solve problems.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe language was crucial for me,\u201d said Heaphy, who studied in Germany during his time at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cSeveral hours a day in this job you\u2019re conversing with your partners overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe BMW representatives interviewed students in the morning and afternoon for internships, which are paid and last six months. What are they looking for? Enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm.<\/p>\n


\nLater in the day, a group of students braved the chilly weather to pose with the car, which, in case you\u2019re wondering, can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in about 4 seconds and sells for just over $140,000. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019m a car enthusiast,\u201d said John Brehany, of Holden, Mass., who interviewed for an internship and is an IEP student studying mechanical engineering and German. \u201cI\u2019m really, really happy that I got the chance to talk to them. It\u2019s awesome they brought the car here. You get to see the application of what you\u2019re studying in one beautiful package. It’s the ultimate driving machine.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHis roommate, Benjamin Welch, is also enrolled in the program, but his focus is electrical engineering. Still, he couldn’t help but be charmed by the car. \u201cSo cool,\u201d he said. And so is the IEP. \u201cIt kept me here at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great program, and job placement is 100 percent. You can\u2019t beat that.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: Students gather around a BMW i8 parked outside the International Engineering Program\u2019s building on Upper College Road at the 溏心vlog免费B站 in Kingston. Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGTON, R.I., March 9, 2016\u2014A BMW cruised onto the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus on Monday, a sparkling white sports car with a top speed of 155 miles per hour. But don\u2019t worry. It never moved. The hybrid car\u2014a BMW i8, to be exact\u2014was parked outside the International Engineering Program\u2019s buildings on Upper College […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}