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Summer Job Opportunities

We have an excellent record for placing Physics majors in summer jobs both at CMU, at other universities, government labs, and industrial labs. Our majors have access to an electronic bulletin-board which has, in a typical week in the spring, over 20 listings. Most students seeking summer technical employment, particularly in their sophomore or junior years, find summer opportunities. Below are just a few examples of recent summer internships our students have had.

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Monte Carlo Simulations of Ferrofluids

  • Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore)
    Testing Procedures for Mainframe Databases

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology,
    Gaithersburg, MD
    Temporal Changes in Magnetization of AlNiCo

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Establishing Testing Standards for Light Guides and
    High Rate counters

  • Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL
    Analysis of Superdeformed Decay Scheme of 192Hg

  • Intel Corporation
    Modeling of On-Chip Inductance

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Design and Construction of Ion Chambers for Symchotron Studies

  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
    Myocardial Surface Deformations During Normal and Altered Ventricular Growth

  • University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
    Photoresponse of Te Rich TexSe1-x Nonlinear Optical Semiconductors

  • University of Central Florida; Orlando, Florida
    Anatase and Rutile Nano-crystalline Titania as Burn-rate Modifiers in Solid Rocket Propellants

  • University of Pittsburgh
    Study of Von Kármán Vortex Streets Using Noncircular-shaped Cylinders

  • Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
    Growth Study of Manganese on Tungsten (110) Using Room Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
    Application of the Genetic Algorithm to Beam-angle Optimization in Intensity Modulated Radiation

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Elliptical Model of Universal Expansion

  • Valdivia, Chile
    Technology Consulting in the Global Community

  • Great Hall of Brain Science, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
    Particle Delivery of Dyes and Proteins into Mouse Cortex Using Laser Ablation

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    A Study of the Sculptor Supercluster using Suzaku

  • Wilson Synchrotron Lab Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University
    Electron Cloud Modeling for CesrTA

  • University of Pittsburgh
    Stellar Absorption Spectra of FeII, MnII, and MgI in QSO

  • Quantum Institute, Rice University
    Optimization of Rydberg Circular States Using Genetic Algorithms

We also provide our students with assistance finding post-graduation employment. See our placement page for some examples of where our student have gone.

Carnegie Mellon's Career Center provides excellent guidance to our majors in their searches for summer or permanent employment.

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