NEXT (Northwestern Externship Program) -- Externships in Engineering

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California

Mountain View, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe small teams working on product development. Job varies from using data to drive decisions to focus on Internet users. Workplace culture is casual. Reply Code: ENG02

Mountain View, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to see how manufacturing and design of high-tech medical devices operate and ensure quality. Most approriate for industrial engineering or biomedical engineering students or someone interested in consulting for medical device or related fields. Reply Code: ENG11

San Diego, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to get a tour of real-world .NET software development at a established, growing e-tailer. See how in-house software supports order placement, fulfillment, and service. Reply Code: ENG17

San Francisco, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to work with a San Francisco structural engineering firm that specializes in seismic design and mitigation. Student can expect to see how a structural design/consulting firm operates via interaction with design engineers, attending internal design/operation meetings, and attending external meetings with owners, architects, and contractors. Reply Code: ENG13

Santa Monica, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to work with a transportation planning and traffic engineering firm projects in Southern California. One of the projcts includes assisting NBC Universal in the preparation of a 20-year long range plan for the expansion of Universal Studios Hollywood -- the firm is working on the study to extend the Metro Red Line subway from Hollywood to Santa Monica. Students externs can expect to accompany staff to client meetings and spend time in the field seeing how project analyses are conducted and summarized into reports and presentations. Reply Code: ENG25

Colorado

Grand Junction, CO
Available: Opportunity for a student to see a construction jobsite and the processes of a general contractor. Reply Code: ENG21

Delaware

Newark, DE or Elkton, MD
Available: Opportunity for a student to see the production of Gore-Tex(R) fabric and how to apply lean concepts to improve manufacturing and business processes. This is an excellent opportunity for an industrial engineering student. Reply Code: ENG19

Illinois

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to receive broad exposure to a leading telecommunications company and its engineering departmental leaders, business partners, and vendors. The student will attend meetings with network operations, RF technology planning, field engineering, and vendors to share research, evaluate, and/or develop new advanced technologies and translate strategic business objectives into final design and/or implementation for wireless communications. Specifically, the student will have an opportunity to learn how the advanced technology group carries out its responsibilities of defining, discovering, verifying, and implementing technology strategy, technology trials, network architecture, technology standards, and technology intellectual property, as well as coordinating and managing, cross-functionally, technology trials and other major technology deployment activities. Reply Code: ENG29

Hines, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to see what a clinical engineer does in a "typical" day at a hospital. The job involves all facets of medical equipment on the "front line", from technology assessment, pre-purchase evaluation, acquisition and installation, networking, user training, preventive maintenance and repair, managing service contracts, applications consulting, and safety issues such as recalls and incidents. Hines VA Hospital is a federal government facility located near Maywood, IL. Reply Code: ENG06

Rolling Meadows, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to see a hardware development team that realizes handheld cellular phones (blackberry) for RIM develop product at the project level as well as bench level design. Reply Code: ENG12

Indiana

Indianapolis, IN
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn the fundamentals of a lean organization committed to the Toyoda Production System (TPS) methodologies. Posting is by corporate director for risk management and EHS -- understand the role of this department as a hub for any (manufacturing, service, financial, retail) company's journey toward cross functional excellence. Reply Code: ENG07

Maryland

Baltimore, MD
Available: Opportunity for a student to work in a facility that makes a wide range of semiconductor devices for defense applications.  Products include integrated circuits, power transistors, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). The tour will give the student of the types of work involved in producing these products as well as the kinds of skills required to be a member of our team. For a student interested in semiconductors. Comapny does a wide range of products and are small enough so that workers are on small teams where they can be a primary contributor on products that do some impressive things that keep our country safe. Reply Code: ENG15

Elkton, MD or Newark, DE
Available: Opportunity for a student to see the production of Gore-Tex(R) fabric and how to apply lean concepts to improve manufacturing and business processes. This is an excellent opportunity for an industrial engineering student. Reply Code: ENG19

Lexington Park, Maryland
Available: Opportunity for a student to see the systems engineering process for the Navy, also called defense acquisition, at work. This is an office-environment type of job with meetings. The specific field of interest in this externship is reliability engineering, with a focus on electrical engineering aspects. An opportunity to see Navy aircraft may also be provided. The student must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Reply Code: ENG09

Massachusetts

Waltham, MA
Available: Opportunity for a student to work for BD, a medical device manufacturer. As an engineer in our facility in Waltham, student will be involved in production review meetings, discuss product quality issues, and see how new products are transfered fromdevelopment to manufacturing. BD is a global medical technology company that is focused on improving drug therapies, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases, and advancing research and discovery of new drugs and vaccines. BD has state-of-the-art facilities around the globe that provide an environment which enables our highly talented workforce to be the best at their professions. Reply Code: ENG24

Michigan

Grand Rapids, MI
Available: Opportunity for a student to gain exposure to large commercial concrete project and aspects of self-perform management of labor materials, equipment. Gerald R. Ford Airport parking structure. Reply Code: ENG05

Minnesota

Plymouth, MN
Available: Opportunity for a student with AGA Medical, a world leader in minimally invasive repair of structural heart defects. Externship will provide an introduction to our worldwide business. Based on the candidate's background and interest, this would include engineering, reasearch and development, manufacturing, and finance. Student will meet with and spend time with managers, engineers, and scientists with comparable backgrounds. AGA Medical had sales of approximately $150 million. Our products are sold in over 100 companies. We are private and have filed for an Initial Public Offering. Plymouth is located outside Minneapolis. Dress is business casual. Reply Code: ENG18

New Jersey

Jamesburg, NJ
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience and learn about scientific computing and data analysis in the corporate world. Student would learn what it's like to work as a consultant, and what challenges and opportunities exist at a small company. Ample opportunity will be provided to discuss career goals and suggestions for achieving them. Reply Code: ENG20

New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn engineering entrepreneurship. Company is a green tech incubator, and we are currently nurturing four startups. Reply Code: ENG28

New York

Albany, NY
Available: Opportunity for a student to work at an externship at a chemical plant in upstate New York. This is a great externship for a chemical engineer and an ideal place to see how student's coursework can be applied in real life. Chemical plant includes distillation columns, seven story tall continuous reactors, and batch reactors. In addition, there is a waste water treatment plant, boilerhouse, technology department, and finishing operations. Host is a female chemical engineer and will only provide lodging for other female chemical engineers. Reply Code: ENG10

New York City, NY
Available: Opportunity for a student to work with Skanska, the largest heavy civil general contracting company in New York City. Extern can expect to visit multiple major construction projects in the New York area. Exposure to common practices and procedures in the construction industry will be prvided as well as an opportunity to see engineering in action and what it takes to build major public infrastructure projects in a metropolitian area. Reply Code: ENG23

Warwick, NY
Available: Opportunity for a student with Searchlight, a company specializing in web software and technology. Students will be exposed to several ongoing software projects across many disciplines and can expect to learn about software design using opensource technology, computer programming, and interaction/communication with a variety of clients. Reply Code: ENG22

Ohio

Columbus, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at OSU. Extern will observe typical job duties including preparing and giving course lectures; preparing and planning for course homework, tests, etc.; and preparing for and attending and running university committee meetings. In addition, students will take part in discussions about research with graduate students and professor's collaborators. Externship could last two days. Reply Code: ENG03

Columbus, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student  to shadow an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Reply Code: ENG26

Texas

Austin, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to work with an academic research scientist in the field of biotechnology and drug development at the University of Texas. Student will learn about research in biotechnology and get a glimpse of what attending graduate school or working full-time in a laboratory environment is like. Reply Code: ENG01

Dallas, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe and tour a transit construction project on the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) system in Dallas, TX. Students will have the opportunity to learn about construction (both as a process and a business), transit systems, and the importance of investment in transportation infrastructure. Potential externs should be pursuing a degree in engineering and have a strong interest in entering the construction industry upon graduation. Reply Code: ENG27

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student with Thermal Energy Corporation, the largest campus district energy system in the country, serving the largest medical center in the world, the Texas Medical Center.  Students will be able to observe the operations of a facility that provides thermal energy to critical care facilities and the business interactions between engineer, operations, accounting, and customers. Reply Code: ENG04

Virginia

Lynchburg, VA
Available: Opportunity for a student with mobile communications engineering. Company designs IP-based radio systems for public safety, military, and industial customers worldwide. Reply Code: ENG08

Washington

Seattle, WA
Available: Opportunity for a student with Wastewater Treatment Division, King County. Company protects water quality and prevents water pollution by providing wastewater treatment to 17 cities and 17 local sewer utilities. The division serves about 1.4 million people, including most urban areas of King County and parts of south Snohomish County and northeast Pierce County. The externship will be primarily with the manager of the largest Wastewater treatment plant in the region, known as West Point. We have all trades, project managers, and engineering professionals working to fulfill our mission to protect public health and the environment. If there are externs interested in other parts of the wastewater/utility business, Host can direct them to other professionals who would work with the student. Company has a large in-house engineering staff, project managers, GIS professionals, planners, scientists, finance managers, as well as all of the trades in our division. Reply Code: ENg16

Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI
Available: Opportunity for a student to visit the GE Healthcare global headquarters engineering division. Learn about the design, engineering, assembly, and testing of cutting-edge medical imaging equipment, including Digital X-Ray, CT, PET, and MRI. Learn about how advanced imaging applications are brought from concept to the hospital. See how cross-functional engineering teams work together to deliver final products. Teams include software engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, quality, regulatory affairs, and image quality engineering. Appropriate for anyone interested in design, engineering, quality, especially software, mechanical, or biomedical engineers. Reply Code: ENG14