Credit: American Society for Engineering Education/SMART.
This should be welcome news (via the DOE): This afternoon, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness along with the Business Council, Business Roundtable, US Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council announced that 45 businesses (including many big names) have committed doubling the number of internships they offer in 2012. Another five businesses agreed to lesser but substantial boosts in their internship numbers.
What’s the net affect? According the news release, around 6,300 new offerings should result.
Here’s a list of the companies that stepped forward
Alcoa Incorporated
American Express Company
AT&T
Bayer AG
*Bechtel Corporation
BNSF Railway
Boeing
Broadcom Corporation
Cardinal Health
Carus Corporation
Caterpillar
*Chevron Corporation
Conductix-Wampfler
ConAgraFoods Inc.
Dell Inc.
Duke Energy Corporation
DuPont
Eaton
Facebook
Fluor Corporation
FMC Technologies
General Electric
Intel Corporation
*Johnson and Johnson Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Kawasaki Motors Corporation US.
Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging Inc.
Lubrizol Corporation
Mastercard
McKesson Corporation
MeadWestvaco Corporation
Nalco Company
NextEra Energy Resources
Nordson Corporation
*PCC Structurals Inc.
Power Cubers Inc.
Simon Property Group Inc.
Spectra Energy Corporation
Special Products and Manufacturing Inc.
Sprint Nextel
Suffolk Construction
Sungard
Sunoco Inc.
Symantec
TE Connectivity
Tektronix
*Texas Instruments IncTextron Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Xerox Corporation
* = committed to increase, but not doubling