South Kingstown, RI Native Embarks on Energy Efficiency Engineering Co-op in Bali, Indonesia

Connor Shumate, a fifth-year Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration student at Northeastern University, recently embarked on an international co-op at Synergy Efficiency Solutions in Bali, Indonesia. His third co-op while at Northeastern, Shumate previously completed co-op positions at Jacobs Engineering in Cambridge, Mass. and at Smith & Nephew in Mansfield, Mass.

“After completing my first two co-ops, I decided that it was very important for me (as an engineering employee) to physically see the impact that I was having on others’ lives through my work,” said Shumate in a blog post he wrote about his experience. “This position has been valuable for me as a mechanical engineering student through learning the technical aspects of each building project and as a business administration student through learning about the financial side of these projects.”

A South Kingstown, RI native, Shumate plans to graduate in May 2017.

Read more about Shumate’s experience here.