“I feel more diverse. I’m not just focusing on oil and gas but biological systems,” says Miles who spent this past summer as part of a research team at Indiana University analyzing healthy and dysfunctional mitochondria in conjunction with a diabetic heart.
During her internship at Occidental Petroleum Company (OXY), Michelle Lopez, 19, was assigned to help create an electronic detection system that actively warns truck drivers when low clearance bridges are ahead. As part of her respon- sibility on the research team, the Oklahoma State Univer- sity sophomore got to put her electrical engineering major to work. “It was a real-world prob- lem to work on” says Lopez, who decided along the way that chemical engineering with a petroleum minor is a better academic fit for her.
Angela Strong, 21, can’t be- lieve she’s just finished living 11 weeks in Korea, let alone working on construction and project management tasks for the U.S Army Corps of Engi- neers through AMIE (Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineer- ing). The Morgan State Uni-
Angela Strong, civil engineering senior, Morgan State University
versity Civil Engineering senior worked on quality control on the construction of elementary and high schools on the Camp Humphreys military base. She said she didn’t realize until the end of her internship that Camp Humphreys was preparing to become the largest U.S. garrison in Asia. “It’s cool to know that I am a part of history in the making.”
Alexandrea Brea, electrical engineer major and junior, Florida International University
At LLNL, Florida A& M University first-year software engineer- ing master’s student Crystal Ronnette Williams, 23, worked on developing a system to protect special nuclear material and classified information in sites across the country. “Although I knew C# programming language, I was also exposed to more methods and functions in that environment.”
Bria Crawford, 19, a civil engineering major and rising junior at Howard University finished up her summer at Exxon Mobil Environment Service with a research-engineering trip to Indo- nesia before starting her junior year in the fall studying abroad in London. Crawford, other interns and companies say there is a strategy to landing an internship.
HIT THE BOOKS AND THE BALL
Speed serves, rackets, balls and nets were a huge part of Jessica Nunez’s summer. In August 2012, the tennis-playing junior at the University of District of Columbia (UDC) was named the East Coast Conference (ECC) Preseason Player of the Year. A native of Ecuador, Nunez translates this spirit of athletic competition and commitment to quality in her studies and everything she does.
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