UWM officials said in 2018 that five students would participate in the 2018-19 school year.

“But then Foxconn realized they need to expand their talent pipeline pool and asked us to expand to 15 (students),” said David Yu, UWM’s faculty lead for the Foxconn internship.

The school identified a dozen interested students who were available to spend the spring 2019 semester abroad.

Yu said two of the students were seniors who received job offers from Foxconn. The company is interested in developing an in-state internship to keep the other students, who were sophomores and juniors during their time in Taiwan, engaged in their work.

UWM and Foxconn may expand the number of students participating and increase the length of the internship this year, Yu said, adding that Foxconn wants to expand the program to other UW engineering schools.

“Not only is it going to continue, it looks like it’s going to be expanded until the local facility is up and running 100%,” he said.

Then students will intern at the Wisconsin campus instead of abroad, he said.

Asia trip postponed