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Technical Writing Emphasis

Banner Engineering, Plymouth, MN
Contact: Ms. Kellie Moeller

College Park Campus Partners, Inc., Madison, WI
Contact: Mr. Bill Levy

Cray, Inc., Chippewa Falls, WI
Contact: Ms. Sheri Maki

Cray, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
Contact: Ms. Laurie Mertz

Dunn County Health Dept, Menomonie, WI
Contact: Ms. Wendy McDougall

First Logic, LaCrosse, WI
Contacts: Mr. Greg Smith or Mr. Jon Hilden
Possible Applied Field(s): Computer Science

Graco, Minneapolis, MN
Contact: Ms. Patricia Hudziak, Product Communications Manager
Possible Applied Field(s): will be advised

Currently Graco takes on interns from UW-Eau Claire's English major with a concentration in technical writing. However, Graco is looking for students with a better grounding in Technical Communication. As a heavy manufacturing company, Graco will provide experiences with manual writing and editing with the possibility of working on other documents generated by the company.

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Nestle, Eau Claire, WI
Contacts: Ms. Cindy Walker or Ms. Kristy Martin
Possible Applied Field(s): Training & Development, Quality Management, Biomedical Engineering, Materials, and Packaging.

The plant in Eau Claire produces infant formula for a worldwide market. Standard operating procedures as well as training and development materials will be a large part of what co-op students will be assigned to write and edit. Redesigning and importing existing documents from Microsoft Word to a page layout program, such as Adobe Pagemaker, QuarkXpress, or Adobe InDesign, may also be a part of this assignment. Because documents must adhere to strict standards set by the Federal Food & Drug Administration, much like the pharmaceutical industry must do, students with an Applied Field in Biomedical Engineering can apply much of what they've learned in their studies.

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Prisma International, Minneapolis, MN
Contact: Mr. Aki Ito, Vice President of Operations
Possible Applied Field(s): International Studies, Applied Languages minor, Spanish minor, International Business, Business and Management, and Project Management.

Students would work with Terry Thompson, Vice President of Business Development in managing documentation projects. With its origins as a translation and localization company, Prisma International still attracts many documentation projects involving translation. The company is now launching a total documentation service, called "Spectrum," which handles clients' documents from the early points of content management to localization where needed. Students working in this co-op should have first-rate organizational skills. Completion of INMGT-363 Project Management is helpful. Likewise, foreign language study and study abroad experiences are helpful, though not required.

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Thomson Legal and Regulatory, Eagan, MN
Contact: Ms. Stephanie Jax, Corporate Recruiter
stephanie.jax@thomson.com
Possible Applied Field(s): Training and Development, Quality Management, Graphic Communication Management, Telecommunications, Business & Management, Computer Science, International Business, International Studies, Art and Design, and Multimedia.

This company is the largest publisher of law books in the U.S. and provides an online legal database called "Westlaw." In Eagan, the editorial division alone employs a staff of 2,000. The contacts from the Legal and Regulatory Division tell us that their division alone can likely employ two to four co-op students during summer 2004 as technical writers. Their documentation activities will include writing and editing training and development materials, standard operating procedures, and instructions for the printing equipment.

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