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SB Internship Program
The industrial Internship Program offers students the opportunity to experience the world of research, development, or production in industry, and provides companies and laboratories the opportunity to interact with Course III and its students.
How the Course III Internship Program Works
For the SB degree, two ten-week work periods in an industrial or governmental establishment are required. Normally, these occur during the summers preceding junior and senior years. Students will register for Industrial Practice (3.930 for juniors and 3.931 for seniors). Students write a report on each assignment. 3.930 is graded P/F and 3.931 is letter graded. Students also present their 3.931 work in an Internship Symposium in the senior fall. These two subjects provide an alternative to performing an undergraduate thesis. Students are matched with employers by the Internship Coordinator, Joe Dhosi (jmdhosi(at)mit.edu).
Students are expected to gain knowledge and skills which generally are not found in the classroom or laboratory. The employer is expected to provide a work experience that is challenging and educational. Since the Course III internship program carries academic credit, each student is assigned a faculty advisor who is familiar with the industry in which the student has been placed, and who assists the student as needed. Day-to-day supervision at the site is the responsibility of the company researcher, and the employer is asked to pay a fair wage and round trip transportation and assist with finding housing.
Students may earn an S.M. degree under the auspices of the Engineering Internship Program. Directly after the senior year, students complete two terms of industrial practice and a minimum of one term of on-campus study, during which time they complete the S.M. subject and thesis requirements. Students wishing to exercise this option follow the normal procedure for application to the Graduate School.
Recent Internship Sites
A123 Systems, Watertown, MA
Advanced Electron, Wilmington, MA
Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL
Army Research Lab, Aberdeen, MD
Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO
Bayer Technology, Cologne, Germany
Boston Scientific, Natick, MA
Consolidated Edison, New York, NY
Corning, NY
Curie Institute, Paris, France
Department of Energy, Washington, DC
Evolved Nonmaterial Sciences, Cambridge, MA
Exxon Mobil, Houston, TX
Ferro Solutions, Woburn, MA
Ford Research and Innovation Center, Dearborn, MI
General Atomics Corp., San Diego, CA
General Electric Energy Co, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Technical Research Inst., Atlanta, GA
Guidant Corp., Minneapolis, MN
Inst. for Biomaterials & Nanotechnology, Singapore
Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ / Santa Clara, CA
KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
Medtronic Corp., Minneapolis, MN
Nanochip, Fremont, CA
National Institute of Materials, Tsukuba, Japan
National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO
Panasconic Boston Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Pfizer, Groton, CT
Schlumberger, Cambridge, MA
Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Lausanne, Switzerland
Toyota Motor Corp., Shizuoka, Japan
Transform Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA
Tyco Electronics, Mountain View, CA
W.L. Gore and Associates, Elkton, MD
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