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Internship Experience at Sandia National Laboratories
By: Jonathan Biron , undergraduate student
This article was written for publication in the November / December 2006 Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Newsletter, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
My engineering internship at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) gave me a profound understanding of renewable energy and the current developments in this field.
Sandia National Laboratories is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation and their main mission is securing our nation's nuclear weapons and material stockpiles. Sandia also has extensive research in alternative energy, material science, mathematics, and several other research areas. Even though Sandia focuses on nuclear stockpiles and programs, my internship focused primarily on renewable energy resources and their impact on the country.
As an engineering intern at Sandia, I aided a multidisciplinary team in gathering information about renewable energy systems and developing new ways of using renewable energy in remote areas of the Midwest. My primary goal was to learn and analyze different types of renewable energy while developing new approaches.
During my summer at Sandia, I was impressed with the unique programs they had to offer. Sandia has summer internship positions in all interests areas. Although the first few days of the internship involved a lot of paperwork and training, the majority of the internship was a combination of office work, field visits, and attending conferences and workshops.
I highly recommend Sandia National Laboratories as a possible employer. They makes you feel like you belong, and the majority of the employees have worked at there for more than 20 years. They have great benefits and truly care about their employees. Sandia National Laboratories have several locations throughout the United States . The Sandia National Laboratories located in California focuses on biological systems and may apply more to our biosystems engineering major.
One of Sandia's primary goals is operating a research laboratory that has the least amount of impact on the environment. This goal, along with several others, makes Sandia National Laboratory a truly remarkable place to work. My internship was unforgettable from the pristine landscape to the lives the renewable systems impacted. This educational and memorable experience will help guide me through my future endeavors in the renewable energy field.
California Internship Home Page:
http://education.ca.sandia.gov/aidnas/ip/entry/index.lhtml
Albuquerque :
http://www.sandia.gov/employment/special-prog/sip/index.html/
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