The Conair Piovan Group is named 2025 Co-op Employer the Year
With numerous student nominations, the Conair Piovan Group won our Co-op Employer of the Year Award for 2025! The partnership has been going strong since 2018, with 27 co-op hires. Since then, they have established an outstanding co-op program that gives students a stellar experience with a potential direct path to full-time employment. We have many Pitt engineering alums in several senior roles. Great management and mentors, and we truly value their partnership.
Back row: Jason Satteson, Keith Acker, and Evan Prem; Front row: Max Rayburg, Amber Earnest, Mike Nguyen, Rex Rayburg, Michael Davis, and Alek Gmuer
Previous Employer of the Year awards include:
2000 United Parcel Service
2001 AK Steel
2002 Mine Safety Appliances Company
2003 H.B. Maynard
2004 American Bridge Corporation
2005 Dupont Chemical Solutions Enterprise
2006 Valspar
2007 Medrad
2008 FedEx Ground
2009 Advanced Integration Group, Inc.
2010 Vocollect, Inc.
2011 FirstEnergy Corporation
2012 Siemens Energy
2013 Eaton
2014 Westinghouse
2015 Robinson Fans, Inc. and ZOLL LifeVest
2016 Curtiss-Wright EMD
2017 Philips Healthcare
2018 Johnson & Johnson
2019 Emerson
2020 ZOLL
2021 ACES
2022 Mosebach Manufacturing
2023 ESTAT Actuation
2024 BASF