Summer 2002 and 2003
Bechtel Corp., San Francisco, CA
Internship in materials science research

Colorado State University Water Resource Center, Fort Collins
Internship studying the swimming performance and navigational ability of sand shiners, a native minnow, in an attempt to restore connectivity to surrounding lotic systems

DEKA Research and Development, Manchester NH
Internship with the company that developed the Segway people mover and the Ibot wheelchair

Extempo Systems, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Internship making software for NetBots who converse with Internet users using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Ford Motor Company
Internship in manufacturing and quality engineering in their automatic transmissions department and internship conducting dimensionally variation analysis

GE Aircraft Engines Group Environmental Affair and Safety, Evendale, OH
Internship with EA&S on variety of projects in wastewater, hazardous waste, pollution prevention, chemical management, safety, and industrial hygiene

IBM TJ Watson Research Labs, Yorktown Heights, NY
Internship in the electronic optical packaging department

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Internship in biomedical engineering (imaging)

National Flour Mills, LTD, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies
Internship modifying their existing hydrogenation plant to do a dual process of hydrogenation and interesterification

NOVA Chemical, Indian Orchard, MA
Internship with polystyrene plant that recycles plastics

Office of Naval Intelligence, Suitland, MD

Operation Crossroads, Pinetown, South Africa
Construction of living quarters for a communal farming area

Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT
Internship with a team of engineers designing helicopter transmissions

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Internship in the geoscience department working with high atmosphere sampling balloons

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Internship conducting research on the biomechanics and mechanobiology of vascular remodeling in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension