Internships and Careers

Internships play an important role in an engineer's education. Students with internship experience better position themselves for future full-time career opportunities. Internships allow students to combine career-related work experience with academic coursework to enrich their total educational experience. Through engineering internships, students:

  • gain valuable career-related experience
  • become more marketable for careers or graduate school
  • build networking relationships and contacts
  • increase the prospect of future employment with the internship company by 70%
  • earn college credit (depending on the major) while being paid
For help finding internships, contact Career Services.

If you are seeking credit for your internship, please refer to the following information:

Biological Engineering Internships

  1. Course: BE 4250
  2. Internship Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Taylor
  3. Junior year must be completed
  4. Internship must involve working on your own project, not a “tech” job
  5. Meet with Dr. Taylor for internship approval
  6. After receiving approval, call or stop by the Engineering Advising Office (435-797-2705) and schedule an appointment to receive further information
  7. Credit is Technical Elective, not BE Elective
  8. Three credit hours
  9. Letter grade (A-B-C-D-F) is awarded

Electrical and Computer Engineering Internships

  1. Course: ECE 4250
  2. Internship Faculty Coordinator: Dr. Chakraborty
  3. Must be in the Professional Program at the time you register for the course
  4. Meet with Dr. Chakraborty for internship approval
  5. After receiving approval, call or stop by the Engineering Advising Office (435-797-2705) and schedule an appointment to receive further information
  6. Technical Elective credit
  7. Three credit hours
  8. P-D-F grade is awarded

Mechanical Engineering

  1. Course: MAE 5900
  2. Must be in the Professional Program at the time you register for the course
  3. Call or stop by the Engineering Advising Office (435-797-2705) and schedule an appointment to receive further information
  4. Credit does not count as a technical elective
  5. Three credits
  6. P-D-F grade is awarded