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Internships provide hands-on learning and experience within a specific field that can occur either inside of academia or outside with a community partner. Moreover, internships give you the opportunity to enhance your capabilities and provide you with new abilities for further studies and/or future employment, as well as:
- Show motivation to build new skill sets
- Learn about a job before making a career commitment
- Gain skills and experience for a leading edge in the job market
- Enhance your resume
- Network with professionals
- Find a mentor to help guide you on your path to success
- Gain confidence in the workplace
- Possibility to transition into a job
- Turn knowledge into application
- Identify a specialty in your field of study to pursue for a desired career
- Experience corporate/industry culture to observe/learn workflow and understand how to approach a job when ready to start a career
Securing Internship
Internships provide a temporary position in a career field within an area of study allowing for hands-on experience and skills learning. These unique opportunities allow for trying out jobs to find the right fit as your endeavors progress. Internships can be planned around academics with careful planning and coordination with an instructor or academic advisor.
Internships are a great way to explore careers in microelectronics and gain practical skills that will help you find your full-time job later.
Search Key Terms
Finding the right job or internship can depend on knowing different search terms and keywords to use when exploring databases. Explore the opportunities below or try searching the following terms in other job databases:
- semiconductor engineer
- application engineer
- hardware architect
- computer engineer
- failure analysis engineer
- optical engineer
Explore Internships
Checkout the internships we have curated to discover your pathway. Apply to one or more of the internships below or use the information to discover internships at your institution. Your academic advisor and institution career center are great resources to assist in finding internships related to your field.
Air Force Civilian Service Internships
- Work alongside uniform and civilian Air Force members
Workforce Recruitment Program
- Recruitment and referral program for students and graduates with disabilities
Repperger Research Intern Program
- Research projects at one of the Air Force facilities under the mentorship of an AFRL scientist
Cadet Summer Research Program
- Opportunities for Air Force Academy cadets to participate in research
AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
- Summer research residencies for faculty and students in STEM
Defense Associated Graduate Student Innovators
- Regional engineering graduate-level education and research opportunities
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
- Competitive fellowship for doctoral degrees within DoD
Summer Scholars Internship Program (SSIP)
- National Science Foundation undergraduate and graduate internships
Autonomy Technology Research (ATR) Center Summer Program
- AFRL Sensors Directorate summer internship program
Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future
- National Science Foundation
Palace Acquire (PAQ) Program
- Air Force program to recruit, train and develop college graduates to become Air Force Civilian Scientists and Engineers
Air Force Science & Technology Fellowship Program
- Fellowship awards for postdoctoral and senior scientists at USAF research facilities