# @school/university-of-cincinnati on LinkedIn

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- **Original URL:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/university-of-cincinnati_how-the-university-of-cincinnati-co-op-builds-activity-7488639587960143872-YTQt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68676816-schooluniversity-of-cincinnati-linkedin
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/11a749ae7a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30T17:00:09.933+00:00

## Caption

AtriCure, Inc. has hired 593 UC co-op students since 2013, 428 of them in biomedical engineering, making it UC's largest biomedical engineering co-op employer (University of Cincinnati College of Cooperative Education and Professional Studies).

That pipeline started in 2001, when John Dreyer co-oped at AtriCure's forerunner as a mechanical engineering student. Today he's VP of Manufacturing Engineering, and the pattern he started keeps repeating: co-ops get treated as full employees from day one, and a striking number get hired full-time. AtriCure brought on 10 co-op students as full-time engineers this past year alone.

We call it the Co-op Compounding Effect: each rotation builds on the last, turning a single work term into a multi-rotation career on-ramp. We talked to five people living it right now, from Dreyer to a third-year student on her second rotation. 🐾

🔗 Read the full story and watch the video below: https://lnkd.in/g2YM2eEy

#BearcatsForLife #CoopEducation #NextLivesHere #Engineering

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| University of Cincinnati | @uofcincy | https://gondola.cc/uofcincy | University |
| Hannah Wiesnoski | @hannahwiesnoski | https://gondola.cc/hannahwiesnoski | Graphic Designer |

## Tags

nextliveshere, engineering, coopeducation, bearcatsforlife

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