Summer Opportunities for Undergraduates
The VU Center for Student Professional Development is the primary resource for students seeking summer positions and should be the first place to go. In addition to positions posted in the VCC's DoreWays system and positions announced in the VCC's industry-specific list serv messages, the VCC offers excellent assistance with preparing for and conducting an internship search. Additional very important activities sponsored by the VCC include employer information sessions and workshops. It is recommended that students begin their searches for summer positions in the fall.
Links to a number of summer research, government internships, and related programs are found below.
- Vanderbilt Opportunities
- Database of Opportunities
- Government/Federal Opportunities
- Teaching/Education Opportunities
- International Opportunities
- Other Opportunities
Summer Opportunities for Undergraduates
Vanderbilt Opportunities
VUSRP - Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program
VUSE - Summer Research Program for Engineering Undergraduate Students
VUSE - Summer Research Program for Engineering Undergraduate Students
Database of Opportunities
Government/Federal Opportunities
- Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program
- Defense Intelligence Agency Summer Intern Program
- DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program
- EPA Compliance and Enforcement Student Career Experience Program
- FDA - Device Evaluation Intern Program (CDRH)
- FDA - Office of Policy Internship Program
- Higher Education Research Experiences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories
- Laboratory Technology Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratories
- NAID - Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- NIH-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes
- NIST - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Boulder Program (click here for application information)
- NIST - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships Gaithersburg Program (click here for application information)
- The Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP)
- NASA Academy
- NASA Applied Physics Laboratory Internship
- NASA Independent Validation & Verification Project
- NASA Internships
- NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars
- NASA Marshall Space Center Robotics Academy
- NASA Marshall Space Grant Research Internship Project
- NASA Robotics Academy
- NASA Space Grant Workforce Development Project
- NASA Student Internship Program
- NASA Summer Aerospace Workforce Development Research Internship Project
- NASA Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships Project
- NASA Systems Teaching Institute
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Teaching/Education Opportunities
International Opportunities
Amgen Scholars in Japan
University of Duisburg-Essen Summer Program for Automotive Engineering Technologies
Pasteur Foundation Summer Internship Program
Engineering World Health Summer Institute
German DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)
NanoJapan
National University of Singapore Summer Engineering Research Internship for U.S. Students (SERIUS)
(Add S $900 to the costs for this internship program as tuition is not waived. See Dean Paschal for more information.)
University of Duisburg-Essen Summer Program for Automotive Engineering Technologies
Pasteur Foundation Summer Internship Program
Engineering World Health Summer Institute
German DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)
NanoJapan
National University of Singapore Summer Engineering Research Internship for U.S. Students (SERIUS)
(Add S $900 to the costs for this internship program as tuition is not waived. See Dean Paschal for more information.)
Other Opportunities