About the Program

We are excited to announce the 2025 Purdue Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering (IE) Summer Internship Program for MS and PhD students from domestic and international academic institutions. This program is designed to provide graduate students with a valuable professional learning experience while fostering research sharing and collaboration within the Industrial Engineering community and related fields.

Below is a list of research projects available for the program. Each project will result in one or multiple internship offers.

· Project 1 - A complex stochastic systems framework for space operations engineering

· Project 2 - AI-Integrated System Dynamics Model for Sustainable and Optimized Semiconductor Supply Chains

· Project 3 - Fundamental Limits for Graph Representation Learning

· Project 4 - Optimization for Robust Machine Learning

· Project 5 - Reinforcement Learning - Algorithm and Convergence Guarantees

· Project 6 - Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Impulse Control Problems

· Project 7 - Robots that observe and learn to operate

· Project 8 - Sensors, Computer Vision, and AI techniques for human factors engineering

· Project 9 - Sustainable and High-Performance Polymer Composite for Additive Manufacturing

· Project 10 - Towards Parameter Free Decentralized Stochastic Optimization

· Project 11 - Urban consolidation centers in middle mile logistics

How to Apply

· Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

· Application Package

- Project title you are applying for

- Statement of purpose

- Resume

- Transcripts (undergraduate and graduate, including the current one)

- Preferred start/end dates: Internship duration must last at least 30 days and fall between May 25 and August 10, 2025.

- Visa sponsorship: If you are an international student requiring a U.S. visa sponsorship, please inform us.

· Selection Timeline: Selected students will be notified by the end of January 2025.

· Application Submission: Please email your application to Aliya Scott at scottan@purdue.edu

Benefits

· Stipend: $2,700/month

· Housing: Arranged and covered by the school

· Visa Processing Fee: Covered by the School

· Travel: Arranged and paid by the student visitor

· Meals: Arranged and paid by the student visitor (on-campus meal plans are available for purchase)

◎ For detailed information about the projects and the application process, please visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/summer_intern

◎ For questions or additional information, please contact: Aliya Scott at scottan@purdue.edu