Co-ops and internships

Finding a Co-op/Internship

Many students find co-ops and internships to be a very valuable component of their undergraduate experience.  Here are some ways to begin looking for co-op/internship opportunities:

• Visit the Virginia Tech Career & Professional Development website.

  • The career center has both scheduled appointments and drop-in advising available.  This is a great place to get your resume reviewed!

  • Visit the career center’s Internship Central for tips about securing an internship.

• Make an account on Handshake and begin searching for current employment opportunities.   

• Attend career fairs!  Many career fairs have employers who are seeking students for co-ops/internships in addition to post-graduate employment.

  • Engineering Expo (fall)

  • Lockheed Martin Day (fall)

  • Aerospace, Defense and Intelligence Career Fair (fall)

  • Additional VT-affiliated career fairs

Virginia Tech’s Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP)

When you are working in a co-op or internship position, you have the option of participating in Virginia Tech’s Cooperative Education and Internship Program.   

Participation in the program provides many benefits, including:

• Support from Virginia Tech’s Career and Professional Development office throughout your work experience.

• Notation of work experience on your VT transcript (0 credit hours).

• Allows you to maintain your full-time student status while you’re away working (if you are working full time).  

If you’re interested in learning more, attend a CEIP Info Session.  

Some companies/organizations that may have co-op/internship opportunities of interest to AOE students:

• Accenture
• Aerospace Corporation
• Air Combat Effectiveness (ACE) Consulting Group, LLC
• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
  
• Blue Ridge Envisioneering
• Boeing
• CACI
• CNA Corporation
• Collins Aerospace
• Deloitte
• Draper Labs
  
• General Electric (GE Aviation)
  
• Heron Systems, Inc.
  
• Inertial Labs, Inc.
• Joint Warfare Analysis Center
• Lincoln Laboratory at MIT
  
• Lockheed Martin  
  
• Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School
• Mercury Systems
• MITRE
• NASA:  
  
  • NASA Pathways Intern Employment Program
    
  • NASA STEM Engagement Internship Program
    
• NASK
• National Ground Intelligence Center
  
• Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program
  
• Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
  
• Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
• Newport News Shipbuilding (Huntington Ingalls Industries)
  
• Northrop Grumman
  Raytheon Corporation
• Renaissance Strategic Advisors 
  
• Rolls-Royce
• SAIC
  SAP NS2
  Southwest Research Institute
• Space@VT  
  
• SpaceX
• Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA)
• Systems & Technology Research
• Technology Service Corporation
  Trident Systems Incorporated
• Virginia Space Grant Consortium
• Zeta Associates