Career Communities

Career Center

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Explore potential careers and develop industry-specific skills for success in the Engineering & Technology Community. The Career Center offers individual counseling, job and internship resources, networking events and professional development opportunities to help students succeed. Below is a quick snapshot of relevant industries, career outlooks, community-specific resources and related Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) to help direct students along their career path in the Engineering & Technology Community.

OCCUPATIONS & BROAD INDUSTRIES:

App Development
Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Coding
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Construction Engineering
Cybersecurity
Data & Analytics
Database Architecture & Administration
Electrical Engineering
Energy & Nuclear Engineering

Environmental Engineering
Game Design
Graphic Design
Industrial Engineering
Information Technology
Materials Science & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Network Engineering & Administration
Ocean Engineering
Process Engineering
Project Engineering
Software Development & Engineering
Systems Analysis & Administration
Technical Support
Web Design & Development

Resume Samples

Engineering & Technology Resume Samples

Technical Interview Resources

Industry Specific Job/Internship Resources

GENERAL RESOURCES:

TECHNOLOGY:

BIOMEDICAL:

MECHANICAL:

ELECTRICAL:

CIVIL/ENVIRONMENTAL:

CHEMICAL:

Summer Research Opportunities at UD and beyond

The list below will be continually updated. Students are advised to check the updated list here to monitor new opportunities.

Opportunities at UD

Summer Scholars Usual application deadline: Check website (usually March 1)
Summer Fellows Usual application deadline: Check website (usually April 30)

Opportunities at national labs, institutes and programs

Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Application opens: 11/30/2020
Big Ten Academic Alliance universities Application deadline: 2/10/2021
IPAM Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) 2021. In Singapore, Berlin, Sendai. Application opens: 11/1/20
Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR) Internship Application deadline: Check their website
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program - US Army Application opens: January 2021
MSIPP Research Opportunities, ORNL, Flyer Application opens: 1/29/21
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Undergraduate Student Internship Program Application deadline: 2/28/2021
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summer Internship Application deadline: 3/31/2021
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internships; Flyer Application deadline: Check their website
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Internships Application deadline: Check their website
Sandia National Laboratories Internships and Co-Ops Application deadline: Check their website
Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship Application deadline: February 2021

Opportunities at research schools

Stanford Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Application opens: 11/1/2020
University of Pennsylvania NSF-REU Summer Research Fellowships Application opens: 11/1/2020
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences Summer Internships Application information becomes available: 11/15/20
REU Site: Thermal Management on Multiple Scales Application opens: 12/1/2020
Cornell University Research Experience for Undergraduates Program Application opens: 12/1/2020
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Biomedical Big Data Science Program flyer Application deadline: 2/1/2021
UC Berkeley Amgen Scholars Program Application deadline: 2/3/2021
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Engineering Undergraduate Internship Program Application deadline: 2/18/2021
Computational Sensing and Robotics at Johns Hopkins University Application deadline: 2/21/2021
Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships Application deadline: 2/22/2021
Indiana University Bloomington Department of Mathematics REU Program Application deadline: 2/28/2021
University of Florida Application deadline: 3/22/2021
UCLA Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research Application deadline: 3/31/2021
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ATLAS Program Application deadline: 3/31/2021
Georgia Southern REU Site Georgia Southern REU Site: Propulsion, Aerodynamics, Materials and Controls of Aerial Vehicles. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting in January 2021.
Yale Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Application deadline: Check their website
Princeton University Center for Complex Materials REU Application deadline: Check their website
NSF REU Sites There are many positions available, please search the Site pages, according to your research interest. They provide detailed application instructions. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to write to the contact person directly. Application deadline: Flexible

Typical components of REU applications:

CV/Resume

Prepare a good, well-crafted CV or resume (consider using LaTeX). Receive feedback from the Career Center staff by scheduling an appointment with a career counselor through Handshake (and a faculty member, preferably from your department). Please don’t hesitate in asking for an appointment with a faculty member to get some feedback on your CV/resume.

Suggestion: Every semester, plan on adding at least one bullet point to your CV or resume. Interact with one or more faculty members to build some research content for a poster or presentation competition and look for research poster competitions and conferences at UD and in neighboring schools and institutes. Volunteer to do some research even if it is only for an hour per week. Eventually, this will grow and give you content for publications and presentations.

An essay (or a research statement)

Please read carefully the REU position advertisement that you wish to apply for, and identify if they are looking for anything specific in the essay or statement. If no instructions are given, you may consider covering the following:

Why do you want to apply for the position, or what do you wish to accomplish from participating in the research program? (Typical answers: prepare for graduate school, solve scientifically important problems, apply knowledge gained from coursework to solve real-world problems or simply to gain research experience.)
What prior experience do you have on research? This is where you will find it important to get involved with research (at least to some level) with a faculty member so that you have some content to build a few sentences or paragraph on.
What are your research interests? If you already have some research interests, describe it (try to make a connection to any particular research topics mentioned in the position description). It may be a good idea to be a bit flexible in describing research interests so that you maximize your chances of getting the position and give yourself an opportunity to learn new things. You may consider seeking advice from a faculty member in your department.

Note: For the essay for the UD Summer Scholar or Fellow positions, you should contact a professor (who you want to work with) to discuss a research topic. You would need a letter from that professor to support your application. It won’t hurt to reach out to multiple professors and see who have projects available.

Recommendation letter

This is an important component of the application. Typically, students collect letters from course teachers. To stand out among the applicants, it may be very helpful to have something in your letter written on your research experience. To provide substance on this for your letter writers, consider getting involved with research with a faculty member (you may want to offer to do some volunteer research if needed). If you did not interact with a faculty member yet, start contacting them as soon as you can, and see if they have any research work that you could contribute to. Exposure to small research tasks may eventually lead to journal publications, and more importantly, may open up a new career path for you.

An online application (requesting basic information about the applicant).

For additional questions, send a follow-up email to Zubaer Hossain, Assistant Professor, at zubaer@udel.edu with a subject ’More Questions on REU’. In case your email remains unanswered (for two weeks), please check the subject of your email.

Related Registered Student Organizations

Alpha Omega Epsilon (A.O.E.)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Association for Computing Machinery
Biomedical Engineering Society
Deep Roots STEM Outreach
Engineers Without Borders
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Sigma Phi Delta (SPD - COE Fraternity)
Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society

To find out more about these RSOs and how to get involved, visit Student Central.

Professional Associations

American Academy of Environmental Engineers
American Association of Engineering Societies
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Railroad Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Institute of Industrial Engineers
Materials Research Society
National Society of Black Engineers
National Society of Professional Engineers
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM)
Society of Automotive Engineer
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Society of Women Engineers

Engineering Licensure Exams

Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam

The FE exam is generally your first step in the process to becoming a professional licensed engineer (P.E.). It is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate engineering degree from an EAC/ABET-accredited program.

The FE exam is administered year-round at NCEES-approved Pearson VUE test centers, and is computer-based. Click here to learn about alternative item types (AITs).

The FE Exam includes 110 questions, is six hours long and includes:

Non-disclosure agreement (2 minutes)
Tutorial (8 minutes)
Exam (5 hours and 20 minutes)
Scheduled break (25 minutes)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FE EXAM >

Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Exam

The Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam tests for a minimum level of competency in a particular engineering discipline. It is designed for engineers who have gained a minimum of four years’ post-college work experience in their chosen engineering discipline.