With internships, students help their hosts remain competitive in a global economy while building their resumes. In this special series, Rhode Island executives and their interns speak about the power of internships.
Meet our interns: Emily Moorehead | Kevin Danh & Dan Litton | Cody Swan | Nathan Harris | Kevin Roy
Continue reading "Our interns innovate. Executives listen."Emily Moorehead left her internship at FM Global with a bang. Literally. The chemical engineering student spent the summer of 2012 conducting explosions for the insurance company.
Continue reading "Emily Moorehead: Reducing workplace disasters"Every week Cody Swan brings the classroom to the real world. The intern at Toray Plastics (America) has learned how the knowledge he learns from a lecture or in a book translates in the marketplace.
Continue reading "Cody Swan: Rhode Island innovation, global advantage"To keep manufacturing alive and well in Rhode Island, plant managers need people like Nathan Harris.
Continue reading "Nathan Harris: Smart manufacturing keeps jobs onshore"Kevin Roy Hometown: Phippsburg, Maine Age: 26 Degree: Industrial Engineering ’09 During an interview for an engineering position at Amgen, the interviewer candidly told Kevin Roy (’09) that he lacked the job qualifications. But Roy landed the job because he had proved himself during internships at the company’s plant in West Greenwich, R.I. “I’ll never […]
Continue reading "Kevin Roy: Internship? Yes. Hired? Yes."Maintaining the safety of more than 600 bridges and 1,100 miles of roadway is no small task. Each year, University of Rhode Island engineering interns to assist in keeping the state’s traffic infrastructure safe.
Continue reading "Kevin Danh: On the road training"More children between the ages of 1 and 14 die from cancer than from any other disease. Eily Cournoyer is working to bring that number to zero.
Continue reading "Eily Cournoyer: Winning the cancer battle"