The Aerospace Engineering Internship ProgramThe Aerospace Engineering Internship Program provides AEM students the opportunity to work in a professional engineering setting during their junior and senior years. Students apply for the program during Spring Quarter of their sophomore year; accepted students are required to have a good lower-division academic record. Specific Internship opportunities are posted in Akerman Hall so that students may prepare an employer specific cover letter and resume. This information is then forwarded to the company representative who uses it to select students for interview. The employer hires the student and together they negotiate the student's work schedule. Students receive academic technical elective credit by registering for four two-credit "Industrial Assignment" courses or two one-to-four credit "Summer Employment" courses. Course grades are based on a technical report describing the work experience. Students participating in the AEM Internship Program gain considerable insight into their future roles as Aerospace Engineers. Most students mature considerably during their work experiences and become very career focused. Many students identify their area of technical speciality based on their work experiences and select their upper-division technical elective courses to match. Companies participating in the AEM Internship Program also benefit. Our academic program provides our students with a solid background in the engineering fundamentals . Our students make good workers, they are competent, honest, dedicated and enthusiastic. Many employers use the program as a primary source of selecting student graduates for permanent professional positions. During the past few years, our students have worked at companies such as Boeing, Cirrus Design, Engineering Laboratory Design, Lockheed/Martin, NASA, Northwest Airlines, Phoenix Solutions, and Rosemount Aerospace. These companies assign our students to interesting and significant engineering projects under the direction of experienced engineers. Examples of such projects are the following: preparing technical data to enable a small general-aviation airplane manufacturer put a new product into production, develop methodology for and write computer code to solve a company specific problem, help study STS TPS tile for high velocity impact damage, analyzing airline fleet data to determine fuel-burn parameters, conduct wind tunnel tests and calibrations on air-data probes. If your company has an Internship Program and/or is interested in setting up a program with us, please provide us with information about your company (including company contact person) at any of the following addresses.
Andrew Vano, Director AEM Intern Program
[TABLE OF CONTENTS] [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] |