What have our students been up to? From internships in the UK to conducting research in the lab, our students spent the summer in a wide range of internships and research opportunities full of experiential learning.
Summer Student Experiences
Research & Internships
Dean’s Fellows Experience Summer of Discovery
Here’s what four of 38 UVA Engineering undergraduate students doing research in labs across several departments have been up to this summer as Dean’s Fellows.
Bonding Over Bacteria: Doctoral Student and Undergrad Pore Over ‘Double Hoo’ Research
Ph.D. candidate Rhea Braun and undergraduate student Eliza Mills team up through UVA’s Double Hoo program to study bacterial movement.
A UVA Engineering Alumna and Summer Intern Dig Into UVA’s Geoexchange Heating Project
A 2019 mechanical engineering alumna and DPR Construction project engineer is helping to build UVA’s next-gen heating plant at Fontaine site while mentoring a rising third-year ME major.
Where Did UVA Materials Science and Engineering Students Work This Summer?
Find out which materials science Hoos soared to high heights this summer as interns for a major aviation engine manufacturer and other top employers.
Computer science student Darren Amona spent his second summer as a software engineering intern at Amazon. This summer, he applied his skills to the Alexa shopping team, gaining valuable experience in a hands-on project.
Riley Tomek spent the summer working with the Data, Digital & Innovation team at Citi's Securities Services where she gained experience in strategic product management. The opportunity helped Tomek gain valuable skills she can carry into her senior year at UVA!
BME student Thomas Ackleson spent the summer researching preventative treatments for DNA damage caused by radiation on long-duration space missions at the Los Alamos National Lab. His research won the Health category at the LANL Student Symposium.
A team of UVA aerospace engineering students presented a plan for sustainable aviation at the AIAA Aviation Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team was chosen by Semper Sky, LLC after winning the Sustainable Island Design Challenge. From left: Aiden Winfield, Sydney Bakir, Taka Suzuki, Defne Savas and Savannah Hafer.
Biomedical engineering student Sabrina Berry recently wrapped up a cross-disciplinary opportunity as an intern for UVA's Center for Applied Biomechanics. While there, she assisted with a project for Honda that investigates automobile safety and seatbelt use for pregnant occupants and contributed to a pedestrian safety project.
Outreach
The Engineering-Girls Formula: Show Science, Create Welcoming Space, Add Acts of Kindness
During Engineering-Girls week, UVA Engineering students, faculty and staff rolled out the red carpet and lit Bunsen burners for the next generation of female students.
For These Third-Graders, Chemical Engineering Is Now Elementary
UVA Engineering students stemmed the way for a group of third-graders to have some hands-on lessons in chemical engineering.
UVA Career Center
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