Internships and Job Placement
The Technology and Policy Program values work experience. Since 1996, TPP has had a formal internship program to help its students obtain relevant positions and to assist them in procuring the funding necessary to make this key educational opportunity a reality.
TPP Program Administrator Sydney Miller coordinates the TPP internship program. Using information provided by students seeking internships, previous knowledge of employers, and searches of numerous job sources, she helps students identify internships that are relevant to their field of study and/or their career plans. While a student interested in water resources, for instance, might not work in that particular field, he or she might work in a state senator's office and thus gain invaluable experience in legislative process and public policy. TPP provides internship resources and maintains a database of contacts and a library of materials from possible internship companies and agencies.
Students returning from summer internships report to the Technology and Policy Program and provide a formal presentation in the Internship Seminar class for the students who will be seeking internships in the coming year.
The goal of the internships is to provide students with the practical knowledge essential to understanding policy, which is very difficult to gain in an academic setting. Internships enable both students and employers to learn more about each other. Summer internship positions have often led to permanent job offers for TPP students upon graduation from the Program.
Over the past years, Technology and Policy Program students held internships in the federal government, private industry, consulting firms and numerous international organizations. Below is a list of recent TPP internships.
Government
Massachusetts and Local Government:
- Boston Central Artery Project
- Cambridge Dept. of Public Health
- Denver Public Transit
- Massport
- Senator Lois Pines
- Representative David Cohen
- District Attorney Martha Coakley
US Government:
- Department of Education - Internet policy for public schools
- Department of Energy -- EERE/Region I -- Boston
- Department of Energy -- Instrumental Development -- Idaho
- Department of Energy (DoE)
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Environmental Protection Agency - Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division
- Federal Communications Commission - Engineering and Technology
- Los Alamos Labs
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Research Council --Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
- Office of Science and Technology Policy
- President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- United Nations (UN)
- US Department of State and US Embassies overseas
- US House Science Committee
- World Bank
Industry
- ABB
- AllEnergy
- ARCO
- Chedd-Angier Productions
- Continental Cablevision
- Corning
- Ford
- General Dynamics
- General Motors
- Hoogovens - British Steel
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Lockheed Martin
- New England Electric Systems
- Nokia Telecom USA
- Sithe Energy
- Xerox
Consulting, Financial, Think Tanks, and Universities
- AT Kearney
- Booz Allen & Hamilton
- Boston Consulting Group
- Geohazards Institute
- Goldman Sachs
- ICF Consulting
- London Economics
- Malcolm Pirnie
- Marakon
- McKinsey
- MIT - President's Office
- MIT Washington Office
- Monitor Group Limited
- Morgan Stanley
- Navigant Consulting
- PA Consulting Group
- Pioneer
- RAND
- Research Triangle Institute
- Roland Berger
- R. W. Beck, Inc.
- Smith Barney
- State Street Bank
- Tabors, Caramanis & Associates
- Tellus Institute
- Telmarc Group
- UCLA/IMMEX
- Vanesse Hagen Brustlin
- Versar
International
- A.T. Kearney (Brazil)
- Boston Consulting Group (Paris)
- Booz Allen & Hamilton (London)
- Diagma International (Paris)
- Cambridge University
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Far East Development Corporation (Singapore)
- Germany - Social Democratic Party Caucus
- Hoogovens - British Steel, Netherlands
- InterAmerican Development Bank
- Int'l Telecommunications Union (Geneva)
- Japan Nihon Doro Kodan (Tokyo)
- Japanese Policy Research Institute for Transport (japan)
- Liv & Associates - Planning Department (Taiwan)
- McKinsey & Company (Austria, Madrid, London)
- OECD - Paris
- Senator Hayashi - (Japan)
- Taiwan EPA - Implementation of Rio Treaty (Taipei)
- Transport for London (UK)
- University of Tokyo - Electrical Engineering (Japan)
- United Nations Development Program
- U.S. Mexico Foundation for Science
- Vitro - Mexico
- World Bank - Transportation (Latin America)
- World Business Council (Switzerland)
- World Wildlife Fund(Guatemala)
Non Govermental Organizations
- Center for Civic Network
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Guatemala-World Wildlife Fund
- UNICEF
