The Co-operative Education Services Centre (CESC) is responsible for providing a range of services common to all co-operative education programmes at Memorial. This includes developing and maintaining business and government participation in the co-op programmes; assisting the job placement process for more than 700 students per semester, encouraging the development of professional and scholarly skills pertinent to co-operative education; designing and implementing an integrated automated office information system, administering the Offshore Career Awards Programme, the Small Enterprise Co-operative Placement Assistance Programme (SECPAP), the new entrepreneurship awards, and the Student Connection Programme.