Internship Overview

What is an internship?

An internship is a short-term, mentored work experience related to a student’s major field that allows the student to bridge from academic study to industrial application. That’s the official definition. The additional benefit to an internship is that it is a chance to demonstrate your talents and abilities within the corporate arena and secure a favorable impression for future employment.

Within an internship, you are able to further define your career track – to learn about the biomedical engineering industry, a representative company, its culture, and where you might fit in. You can learn practical skills and begin to understand where the academic science that you’ve learned fits into the puzzle of business, administrative, and practical perspectives.

The Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department encourages its students to get internship experience so that they can learn how to link theory to practice, explore career options, gain knowledge of the workplace, and contribute to the community.

The Biomedical Engineering Industrial Internship Program, or BEIIP, provides support to students seeking summer internships and to companies seeking Rutgers University BME graduate and undergraduate students seeking internships, to establish a mutually beneficial internship experience.

These internships can be:

• research oriented (academic) or more applied (practical) in nature
• highly selective or more liberal in the selection process
• highly structured or very flexible in terms of the program
• paid or unpaid

All internships are guided – the students are assigned a mentor by the industrial partner and the BEIIP follows progress of the intern periodically throughout the summer session. Finally, evaluation reports are completed, student resumes updated, and programs improved for future student candidates.