Internships

Undergraduates at SUNY Potsdam are encouraged to obtain extra experience in their chosen field by doing off-campus internships. Contact the Experiential Education Office at (315) 267-2803 or visit their website to learn more. Examples of previous internships in which Mathematics students have participated include:

• Champion International Corporation, Defriet, NY
• Metcalf & Eddy, Massena, NY 
• Northwestern Mutual, Potsdam, NY 
• Onondaga Community College Excell Center, Syracuse, NY

Additional Internships that may be suitable for Math Majors

Los Alamos National Labs

• Application deadline is the end of February
• http://www.lanl.gov/education/undergrad/internships.shtml

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• The deadline for application is April 1.
• Applications received by January 31 will receive the fullest consideration for the summer
• https://internships.llnl.gov/

NASA Internships

• Application deadline is January 22.
• http://usrp.usra.edu/about/

Boeing Internships

• http://www.boeing.com/employment/collegecareers/index.html

Goldman Sachs

• Summer Analysts Internships for undergraduate degree candidates
• http://www2.goldmansachs.com/careers/begin/application-process/intern/index.html

Metron

• http://apply.metsci.com/careers/jobs/index.asp?fuseaction=listings

Raytheon

• http://rayjobs.com/campus/index.cfm?Tool=CoopInternJobs

IBM

• http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/
  
  This year, IBM Research will be hiring interns to work in our United States Labs located in New York, California, Texas and Massachusetts.

Microsoft Research

• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/apply.aspx
• Intern applicants with strong academic achievement in fields such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or Social Sciences with a focus on technology are preferred.

Department of Energy

• http://www.dep.anl.gov/p_undergrad/summer.htm
• Application Deadline: February 1.

Aerospace Corporation

• http://www.aero.org/careers/intern.html

Websites with Internship Information

• http://www.siam.org/careers/internships.php
• http://www.ams.org/employment/internships.html

National Security Agency

• http://www.nsa.gov/careers/opportunities_4_u/students/undergraduate/msep.shtml
• Mathematics Summer Employment Program (MSEP)
• Applications are accepted August 1st - October 15th of each year.

Phillips Research

• https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_philips/external/en/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=204137&localeCode=en-us
• Internship: Modeling of droplet formation (Thesis Assignment)
• https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_philips/external/en/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=203671&localeCode=en-us
• Diploma thesis Optimization for Medical Image Processing
• https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_philips/external/en/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=202592&localeCode=en-us
• Diploma thesis Medical Image

Navel Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)

• http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/dahlgren/RECRUIT/studop.aspx

Mitre

• http://www.mitre.org/employment/student_opps.html

Palo Alto Reserach Center

• http://www.parc.com/about/careers/

SAIC

• http://www.saic.com/career/join-saic/students/intern.html#requirements

Prudential

• https://pru.taleo.net/careersection/campus_summeractuaryinternship/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en&jobfield=5340441392&jobfield=2140441392&radiusType=K&radius=1&keyword=summer&portal=2140441392
• Actuarial internships

John Hancock

• http://www.johnhancock.com/careers/opportunities.php

• Actuarial internships

 

Bank of America

• http://careers.bankofamerica.com/campusrecruiting/analyst_internships.asp
• Analyst internship

CITIGROUP

• http://internships.about.com/od/banks/p/citiinternships.htm

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• http://www.orau.org/ornl

American Statistical Association List

• http://amstat.org/education/internships.cfm

SUNY Potsdam Internship Coordinator:  Toby White, Sisson Hall S112.

Opportunities in the Field

SUNY Potsdam Mathematics graduates are employed by companies such as Aetna, AT&T, IBM, General Electric, Kodak, the National Security Agency and Hewlett Packard. Others have received assistantships and fellowships at reputable universities. Many have earned Ph.D. degrees in mathematics or statistics.

 

Career Resources

SUNY Potsdam Mathematics Alumni and Their Careers

• Mathematics Alumni & their Careers (PDF)
  This booklet features a comprehensive list of the kinds of careers former SUNY Potsdam Math Students have gone on to do after graduation. It's a great resource if you're looking into what you can do with your math major.

• http://www.math.duke.edu/major/whyMajor.html
• http://www.maa.org/careers/
• http://www.coolmath.com/careers.htm
• http://www.ams.org/profession/career-info/early-careers/early-careers
• http://www.math.uga.edu/~shifrin/jobops.html
• http://weusemath.org

Information on Actuarial Mathematics

• http://beanactuary.org/

Information on Biomathematics graduate schools

• http://www.smb.org/education/index.shtml

Graduate Programs in Industrial Math

• http://www.geoffdavis.net/dartmouth/policy/gradprogram.html

 

Professional Masters Degree Programs in Mathematics Departments

• http://www.math.uic.edu/~mer/pages/masters/index.html
• http://www.ams.org/profession/career-info/grad-school/emp-masters

A few companies that hire math majors

• Epic:  a growing company that has recently hired at least one SUNY Potsdam Math Major
  http://careers.epic.com
• IBM
  www.ibm.com/start
• Mathworks
  www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/