Statistical Engineering Division Summer Internship
Deadline: April 25, 2004
The Statistical Engineering Division of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces its 2004 Student
Internship of supervised practical work in statistics. Students
may participate in the internship during summer vacations and/or
during semester breaks. The purpose of the program is to
interest students in a statistics career by providing hands on
experience. Our student employees are paid at a base yearly
salary of approximately $20,000.
NIST, an agency of the Department of Commerce, was established
to assist industry in the development of technology needed to
improve product quality, to modernize manufacturing processes,
to ensure product reliability and to facilitate rapid
commercialization of products based on new scientific
discoveries. The technical part of NIST consists of engineers
and physical scientists during basic science and research to
accomplish these goals. The Statistical Engineering Division
provides collaborative statistical consulting for these
scientists. As an added caveat describing the quality of
work at NIST, since 1997 two of our physicists have won the
Nobel Prize in Physics. More information about NIST and the
Statistical Engineering Division can be found at the web sites
http://www.nist.gov and
http://www.nist.gov/itl/div898.
Students applying should have a general knowledge of computing,
e.g., experience using a pc or a unix based operating system,
including word processing and file editing. In addition,
exposure to Mathematica, Matlab or some other statistical package
is desired. Course work requirements are at least three
semesters of calculus and one course in statistics or
probability. Students must be U.S. citizens.
If you have students interested in this internship and who meet
the requirements, please contact one of the following persons.
We are particularly interested in minority students.
Date created: 3/4/2004
Last updated: 3/4/2004
Please email comments on this WWW page to
sedwww@cam.nist.gov.
