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ALTIS GROUP
Location: Lima, Peru
ALTIS GROUP is a company with international experience in the design, management, and promotion of real estate projects in Peru. Through their work, they apply a dynamic and innovative approach from a human point of view to all kinds of challenges, maintaining a dialogue with clients and working with the agents needed to ensure the success of any project. IIP interns are required to think of all projects as open-ended opportunities to develop ideas that might contribute to the success of the projects. As a small office, the ALTIS GROUP offers a very personal service to its clients and involvement on  projects is complete--from concept to business strategy to implementation. IIP interns with experience in AutoCAD, Photoshop, and a 3D program (3Dmax, Rhino) are preferred. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

Bayer (China) Limited
Location: Shanghai, China
Bayer is represented in Greater China by its Bayer HealthCare, Bayer CropScience, and Bayer MaterialScience subgroups and the service company Bayer Technology Services, and operates several production facilities here. Bayer's links with China go back to 1882, when the company first began marketing dyes on the Chinese market. Bayer's interests in this exciting region(Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan) have grown steadily over the years, from step-by-step investment in the early 1990s to large-scale, world-class facilities today. With the commitment of "Bayer's Solution for China's Needs," Greater China has now become Bayer's largest single market in Asia, with sales of around EUR 2.9 billion in 2010. Currently around 11,000 people work for Bayer in Greater China, which is also among the major focuses of the company’s global investment. The intern will assist an internal project manager. All projects service internal customers. The intern would be serving in two general areas:

• Assistant to the team: Support in general administrative tasks and general office affairs (e.g. scheduling of meetings, etc.), document handling, provision of back office support (preparation of charts and presentations)
• Project Management: Possible projects would be SAP roll-out or servicing other specific needs of the finance department. The intern could be assigned a specific project management task that he/she will need to proactively engage

One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. Academic background and/or interest in computer science or finance/accounting is preferred. Candidates should be proficient in Chinese.

Bridges to Prosperity
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia; Maliana, East Timor; Matagalpa and Condega, Nicaragua; Kigali, Rwanda
Bridges to Prosperity provides isolated communities with access to essential healthcare, education, and economic opportunities by building footbridges over impassible rivers. By working within the local context and training local technicians, their programs aim to develop locally appropriate designs, which can be economically and safely replicated. The ideal candidates for this internship would have experience working in rural areas of the developing world and experience in basic construction and masonry skills. The interns will be expected to train and work on a cable-suspended bridge project, approximately 60 meters in span. The project will be under the guidance and, when necessary, supervision of the Bridges to Prosperity Program Manager. Candidates with an academic background in Civil Engineering are encouraged to apply. Interns should be prepared to live and work in a rural area, lacking electricity and running potable water. Four placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. See the placement descriptions under IIP Placements by Region for details related to the specific locations.

CEDESOL (Centro de Desarrollo en Energía Solar)
Location: outside Cochabamba, Bolivia
CEDESOL provides creative market practices to enable the people of Bolivia, regardless of their economic standing, to acquire an ecological stove that will significantly improve their quality of life. CEDESOL delivers the cooker to their community, covering 5 of the nine departments of Bolivia. Partnering with banks, micro-finance organizations, and other organizations working in this field, CEDESOL is able to offer micro-credit solutions to people who have little in the way of financial resources so that they are not excluded from the benefit of our cookers. IIP interns will develop their own project, according to their own abilities and interests and the needs of CEDESOL. In partnership with CEDESOL, the IIP intern should begin developing their project before arriving in Bolivia. Whatever their projects, IIP interns are encouraged to assist with demonstrations and trainings in the rural communities. In the past, IIP interns have constructed solar cookers in workshops, written grant applications, worked on the industrialization process of rocket stoves, created newsletters, edited television advertisements, assisted with cooker demonstrations and trainings, collected data on fuel savings, and evaluated the impact of stoves. IIP interns should be ready to lend a hand to other staff as needed, whether to review a project budget or scrub a stove clean after a demonstration. Spanish skills are not essential, but basic Spanish is desirable. Fluent Spanish would be very helpful to the organization. IIP interns must be adventurous, flexible, and their goals and expectations must be adaptable. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

DeNA
Location: Tokyo, Japan
DeNA Co., Ltd. was founded in 1999 by Tomoko Namba, a former partner of McKinsey & Co. The name DeNA is a combination of the genetic term DNA and the "e" from e-commerce. Starting out as an e-commerce company, DeNA has expanded into broader areas of operations including services for mobile phone users, such as social networking services (SNS) and games. DeNA manages Japan’s top mobile portal site "Mobage-Town" (mbga.jp), which provides users with access to games, social media, and community networking tools. As the No. 1 social gaming company in Japan, DeNA is now focusing on international business operations, centered on the U.S. and China. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. The IIP internship is in Marketing and Strategy (Social Game Business Division, Smartphone Social Game Development Group, Platform Marketing Division, Advertising Sales Team). Projects may include researching and analyzing the global smartphone market, designing and developing DeNA’s global marketing strategy for the U.S. and China, and driving the implementation of a new business scheme.  Juniors interested in the global mobile industry, especially those pursuing concentrations/certificates in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, and Mathematics, are encouraged to apply. Japanese language skills are required. Applicants should have a strong desire to work in Japan after graduating. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.

Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology
Location: Kraków, Poland
The Department of Telecommunications (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland) is an important center for education and research in communications technologies focusing on high-speed networking and services to the e-world. Specific research topics carried out at the Department of Telecommunications include multimedia communication systems, next generation Internet, and wireless 4G networks. Interns will be involved in one of the research projects (solving a specific task). Academic background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is preferred.

Digital Solutions
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
Digital Solutions (DS) is a Ugandan-based software development company. The company builds custom applications mainly for the telecom industry for clients in Africa, Asia and the United States.
The interns will join the DS team as it seeks to meet demanding client expectations. DS’s  work involves significant research and innovative approaches to application building. IIP interns responsibilities may include: co-leading a team as programmer on existing projects; programming skills transfer/lead on in-house training for staff; helping in the maintenance of system development process and controls; and providing an independent quality assurance on existing applications to improve security, quality of execution and to ensure up-to-date documentation.  Specific projects may include MMS Gateway Development, Dynamic SIM Toolkit application development, and NFC programming. This placement is ideal for IIP interns with interest in computer science. Software development in C, Python, Ruby, or Java is required. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Location : Marne-la-Vallée, France (east of Paris)
ENPC is the oldest engineering school in France and one of the most prestigious Grandes Écoles. The IIP placements are at the Joint Research Laboratory UMR-Navier. The IIP interns will participate on one of two research projects, which mainly concern mechanical vibrations of structures and modelling and identification of mechanical systems. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

• The first IIP placement: includes research on the civil engineering aspects of monitoring recent and aging works of art and the second IIP placement focuses on the detection and identification of damage detects on civil engineering structures. In the field of civil engineering, on the one hand, there have been studies conducted on recent art work that has become more and more sensitive to wind and thermal elements, and on the other hand, there are other studies on the impact of sensitivity during the aging process of existing works of art. Monitoring is useful since the commissioning of new works and becomes an important element of diagnosis in the choice of implementation of policies for maintenance of older works. Instrumentation systems developed for monitoring health of books require an optimization (number and position of sensors for example) to meet these new needs. In parallel, the need for global methods for the quantitative assessment of the health of the works has led the development and research methods which are usually based on change of vibration characteristics (frequencies, modal and deformed depreciation modal).
• The goal of the second project is to propose new diagnosis techniques based on the exploitation of vibratory signals to improve the maintenance of the works and civil engineering equipment. Often the mechanical model of the structure or the machine is not necessarily known, and the identification of defects is based on the operation of identification algorithms. The specificity of this research is to define the principles and approaches of practical implementation of sensors in vibration for structural dynamics assessment, and in particular for the detection of damage. The lab is primarily interested in "linear" corruption, that is, the response of the structure can still be modeled retaining the linear form of the equations of motion.

For more specific details on the research projects, contact the IIP. A background in material behavior, civil engineering, or signal processing would be an asset as would MATLAB and scientific text editor skills and scientific curiosity. French language skills are not necessary.

École Polytechnique (Research in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Economics)
Location: Palaiseau, France (near Paris)
École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research, renowned for its Ingénieur Polytechnicien (polytechnic engineer) program. Established during the French Revolution in 1794, Polytechnique became a military school under Napoleon in 1804. It relinquished this status to become a public educational establishment in 1970, though it is still overseen by the Ministry of Defense. It is a founding member of the ParisTech grouping of leading Paris-area engineering schools, established in 2007. Students can apply for a research internship in any research group within one of the 22 laboratories at École Polytechnique (you may also want to peruse the internship subjects within the research groups). Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. French is not required. Do not fill out the application on the École Polytechnique website. If you are applying for this placement, put École Polytechnique on the IIP Placement application as your first or second choice and then indicate your top three choices of research groups in the "additional information or comments" section of the IIP Placement application. In your personal statement, be sure to clearly indicate why you are interested in these research groups and why you are qualified to work on such projects.

Endeavor Chile
Locations: Santiago, Temuco, Antofagasta, Puerto Varas, and Concepcion, Chile
Endeavor transforms emerging countries by establishing high-impact entrepreneurship as the leading force for sustainable economic development. At Endeavor Chile, we search & select for high-impact entrepreneurs and then support them with services to improve their business models, expand their networks, and catalyze sustainable growth. IIP interns will have the opportunity to support the Search & Selection, Entrepreneur Services, Outreach, or Metrics Analysis team at one of the Endeavor offices. A detailed description of each position area is available in the IIP office.  Endeavor Chile also spearheading an education initiative called “Aprendimiento”. The “Aprendimiento” program aspires to promote a culture of entrepreneurship within Chile by sponsoring programs that inspire and empower students to become responsible global citizens. The program supports IIP interns by fostering entrepreneurial values such as leadership, creativity, taking initiative, thinking “outside the box”, and trustworthiness. The IIP interns will learn to leverage their entrepreneurial spirit, identify opportunities for their future, and prepare for their future. IIP candidates interested in working on the education initiative would be staffed at the Puerto Varas office. This IIP placement is an ideal opportunity for IIP candidates with interests in entrepreneurship and Latin America. Skills and/ or experience in business would be an asset. Spanish proficiency is preferred, but not required. When applying interns should rank the offices at which they would be interested in working. IIP Interns should also specify if they are applying to work on the “Aprendimiento” education initiative. If an IIP intern is not applying to work on the education initiative,please indicate if you have a strong preference for supporting Endeavor in a certain focus area: Search & Selection, Entrepreneurship Services, Outreach, & Metrics Analysis. This placement is ideal for students with interest in entrepreneurship; Latin America and Latin American development, economic development, microfinance, finance, economics, engineering, business, management, public policy and/or information technology. Good knowledge of Spanish is required. Three placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

Energy for Opportunity
Locations: Freetown and Makeni, Sierra Leone
Energy for Opportunity (EFO) is a not-for-profit organization working to improve livelihoods in West Africa through the provision and installation of clean, sustainable, photovoltaic, electricity-generating infrastructure. Their strategy is to develop innovative ways to promote the use of renewable energy across the region with an emphasis on both solar installations and solar training projects. EFO’s work addresses the need that comes with a large proportion of the world’s population lacking access to modern forms of electricity, a problem that is particularly acute in West Africa, home to some of the least developed regions in the world. IIP interns will be based in EFO's offices in Freetown and Makeni and will work on a wide variety of areas relevant to EFO's work, including socio-economic research, project monitoring and evaluation, community training, report and proposal composition, and solar power installations. The IIP intern must be comfortable living in a rural African setting with basic amenities and must have previous research experience and strong writing skills. This placement is ideal for IIP candidates with interest in anthropology, engineering, development studies, or the social sciences. Prior travel experience in Africa is a must. Note: Placements for this internship are for a minimum of 10 weeks long. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. View a Powerpoint presentation (.pdf) by a past intern.

Fundación Centro de Servicios Cristianos (FUNCEDESCRI)
Location: Nebaj, Cunen, and Campur, Guatemala
FUNCEDESCRI is a non-profit ecumenical foundation that promotes food security and sovereignty and the support of integrated and sustainable development of the rural communities of Guatemala. They work with 56 indigenous Mayan communities (Quiches, Ixiles, and Q'eqchis) that live in the northwest sections of Guatemala, assisting them in a holistic manner in their own community development processes. The work of FUNCEDESCRI is organized into three target areas: Nebaj and Cunen, located in the department of Quiche, and Campur, located in the department of Alta Verapaz. FUNCEDESCRI seeks to promote the solidarity of the poor with the poor by means of the promotion of human development: promoting the technical training and the whole formation of men and women with the goal of helping them to develop their full potential to contribute to a just and inclusive society. IIP interns will have the opportunity to work on projects in the following areas: natural resource management, farming and agriculture, audiovisual materials and graphic design, development and fundraising, nutrition, engineering, research, social enterprise. Spanish proficiency in speaking, writing, and reading is recommended. An interest in sustainable agriculture, community development, international development, food security, non-profit management, and/or organic and local food would be relevant. If you are interested in working on agricultural or water technology projects, a technical or engineering background would be helpful. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. This internship is offered in partnership with Princeton in Latin America. View Powerpoint presentations by past interns: Powerpoint #1 (.pdf), Powerpoint #2 (.pdf).

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Locations: Bangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, and Pune, India
Infosys Technologies Ltd. designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions and provides a complete range of services by leveraging domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. Infosys' offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing. Each intern will have his/her own project. IIP interns with interests in liberal arts may work in the following departments: Human Resources, Corporate Marketing, Education and Research, Domain Competency Group, Corporate Planning, Infosys Leadership Institute, Knowledge Management, the Diversity office and individual business office. Students with a technical background are offered the opportunity to work on projects involving cutting edge technologies such as Application QoS, Business Process Management, Collaboration Platforms, CRM, Enterprise Mobility, Environmental Engineering, Grid Computing, Information Management, Knowledge Engineering, Legacy Modernization, Mobile Computing, P2P, Pervasive Computing, Performing Engineering, Security, SOA, Web Services and Web 2.0. Five placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. The engineering placements are part of the Preparing to Lead Program of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and are reserved for engineering students only. Click here for more information about the Preparing to Lead Program.

• Listing of projects for the summer of 2012. You may select any of the projects in India that are listed for BACHELOR’S DEGREE. To search for projects, type BAC (not Bachelors) in the box for Academic Concentration and then scan through the listings. Internships at Infosys will be fully funded for any length of time 8 weeks and above.

To apply: On your IIP application, you should list Infosys as your first or second choice and then list your top two preferences for specific projects in the "additional information/comments" section of the IIP Placement application. (Do not apply directly to Infosys!). You can either write a personal statement for each of your preferences or treat both preferences thoroughly in a single, longer statement.

Innovations for Poverty Action
Location: Asunción, Paraguay
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a non-profit organization that creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems and works to scale up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors, and donors. In Paraguay, interns will work on a project called Big Math Paraguay: In the education systems of the region there is much less interest for the development of mathematical competencies and abilities in preschool education than for the competencies in reading and writing. Emerging research on early childhood quantitative understanding indicates positive outcomes resulting from teaching math in early years. As a result, interest in early childhood education is on the rise. In the hope of facilitating the transition from preschool math (for example, counting) to primary-level math (for example, arithmetic), and reducing the number of students that need later intervention, the governments of many countries like Paraguay have shown an interest in introducing early childhood math in preschool education. In Paraguay the Ministry of Education and Culture of Paraguay and the Inter-American Development Bank are collaborating on the implementation of a pilot that seeks to adapt, develop, evaluate, and disseminate a curriculum for the teaching of mathematics in preschool, with emphasis on the development of learning strategies differentiated for each phase of childhood development. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) will be used to deliver the curriculum to the students. Interns will:

• Participate in an on-going field experiment: Interns assist with overall project monitoring and implementation: coordinating between field survey teams, strategic partners, vendors, data entry teams, and other support staff; facilitating the data entry process; and contributing to data cleaning and analysis.
• Conduct exploratory qualitative work: Interns may conduct open-ended interviews with school staff and communities to document puzzling facts or behaviors and help develop new research ideas and designs.

Candidates should have course work or experience in research methods; coursework in econometrics, advanced knowledge of Stata or experience with data management; and Ffamiliarity with randomized control trials. Spanish fluency is required. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada Brazil (IMPA), OBMEP PROJECT
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) is a teaching and research unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology. IIP interns will contribute to the Mathematical Olympiads for Public Schools (OBMEP) project, a project financed by the Brazilian Government, under responsibility of IMPA. The objective is to provide academic support for students who, due to social or economical conditions, cannot afford a good education. The Olympiad project has resulted in producing many talented students, from the public school system, usually from low income families. In this program the students receive a scholarship, for one year from the Government to improve their mathematical background and skills. The project involves a national examination, a special program for medalists of the three levels (Level III: High school, Level II: 8 and 9th grades, and Level I: 6th and 7th grades). Specific internship responsibilities include providing English training for selected medalists of OBMEP, presenting classes of workshops on elementary (but challenging) mathematical topics, and writing content about interesting elementary problems. This position is ideal for mathematics concentrators, especially those with interests in teaching and/or Latin American studies.  An understanding of Spanish and Portuguese would be an asset, but is not required. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada Brazil, LUA PROJECT
Location : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) is a teaching and research unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology that created and executed the “Lua” programming language. Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language, which is ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has been used in many commercial applications (e.g., Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of Warcraft). Since 1999, LuaSocket has been the leading API for network access from within Lua. The library is divided into a core C module that provides basic functionality, supported by high-level libraries implementing protocols such as FTP, SMTP, HTTP etc. Although the library is still very popular, there has been growing demand for support for newer asynchronous APIs in the core module, such as kqueue or epoll on Unix, and I/O Completion Ports on Windows platforms. IIP interms will help design and implement the new-generation network support for the Lua programing language. Skills required for the first IIP internship include experience in computer programming in C ,and network programming and Lua programming are desirable. A second IIP internship focuses on state-of-the-art recursive filtering on CPUs and GPUs: Recursive filtering is a basic signal-processing operation that has many applications in computer graphics (e.g., summed-area tables, Gaussian blur, B-Spline interpolation). The dependent nature of the computation poses significant challenges to the parallelization of the computation. An algorithmic framework was recently proposed for GPU-efficient (i.e., massively parallel) computation of recursive filters. A CUDA implementation is being released to the public, but there is still room for contributions.  For example, it would be interesting to provide ports to DirectX Compute Shaders, OpenCL, or C++ AMP or provide sample applications that showcase the technology (for example, for higher-quality re-sampling in open-source video players). Finally, the framework may also lead to a highly efficient multi-core SIMD CPU implementation. IIP interns will be mentored through any of these challenging possibilities. Skills required for this IIP placement include computer programming in C/C++, and CUDA.  Knowledge in computer graphics or signal processing would be an asset. and Sao Paulo. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

International Water Association (IWA)
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
IWA is one of the largest global networks of water professionals operating internationally, spanning research and practice disciplines and covering all facets of the water cycle. IWA collaborates with a range of organizations, including, amongst others: The World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the main UN agencies (UNHABITAT, UNESCO, UNICEF), dealing with water and sanitation on projects of common interest. The selected IIP intern will work primarily in the development of the regional programs for IWA, doing a mix of strategy, research, and marketing, Additionally, he/she will assist the development director on specific projects. This placement is for eight weeks at IWA's headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Additional placements in other countries are currently under negotiation and may include Singapore and Peru. French or Spanish competence is an advantage (though not essential). IIP candidates will work on a range of projects related to disaster recovery, water quality monitoring, climate change, sustainable sanitation, or young water professionals. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. Click here to view an IWA brochure (.pdf).

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Locations: Hyderabad, India ; Pretoria, South Africa; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
IWMI is an international scientific nonprofit organization. They undertake scientific research to help improve water management in developing countries. The key purpose of this is to improve the lives of the people in developing countries and reduce poverty, while still protecting the environment. The major outputs of the organization are the results of the scientific research. How these research results are communicated and the activities undertaken to promote the results and encourage action are critical to the work being able to have positive impact. In order to meet their mission, IWMI must continually be evaluating the effectiveness of its science communications. IIP interns play a key role in this process. Each IIP intern will conduct research in the country where he/she is placed. As part of a team, the IIP intern will contribute towards defining the main products/activities, target audiences, and aims of the different products/activities; designing the survey which will be based on face to face interviews; selecting the survey sample and planning the interview schedule; undertaking the survey; collating the data, analyzing the results, developing recommendations; presenting these and making recommendations for future marketing and communications. The IIP intern must be able to work well with people of different cultures, possess some evaluation experience (conducting surveys, facilitating focus groups, interviewing, data analysis, making presentations, etc.), and be a clear, concise report writer. See the listings in Placements by Region for descriptions of the specific projects available. View a Powerpoint presentation (.pdf) by a past intern.

Investors in Africa – Takura Ventures (PVT) LTD, an associate of African Century Group
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
African Century is a visionary portfolio of sustainable investments in sub-Saharan Africa. Their aim is to build businesses of scale in specific sectors and geographies, which will create value for their investors and to create employment and lasting benefits for their partners and their communities. Takura Ventures is the Private Equity arm of African Century. The teams behind African Century and Takura Ventures have considerable combined experience of investment banking, private equity, corporate finance and operational management, and knowledge of business sectors and markets all over the world, including Africa. This IIP internship represents an exciting opportunity for a student to gain first-hand experience of private equity in a developing country and learn from leading professionals in the industry. The IIP intern will be closely involved in the day-to-day business of the company and will assist in areas such as analyzing existing and potential investments, assisting with research, and drafting and reviewing reports. They are looking for a dynamic, driven, bright and motivated IIP intern, who will be exposed to many aspects of businesses in Zimbabwe. Specifically, the IIP intern will assist the Chief Financial Officer and Investment Officer in evaluating potential private equity investment opportunities. This may involve macroeconomic research, sectoral analyses, basic financial modeling, assisting in the drafting of investment screening papers, developing strategies to assist the growth of portfolio companies etc. The IIP intern will also gain an appreciation for the running of a company in Zimbabwe by assisting in some of the day-to-day company management. This IIP placement is ideal for students with interests in finance, economics, mathematics and statistics. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.

Lafarge
Location: Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France
Lafarge is one of the world’s leading construction materials companies (#1 worldwide in cement, #2 in Concrete and Aggregates, and #3 in Gypsum Products), with a strong commitment to innovation and sustainable construction. Lafarge is supported by a substantial R&D effort with an annual budget of more than 170 million Euros, and mo240 researchers in the central research laboratory (LCR). Environmental considerations need to go faster in the development of innovative concretes having less impact without compromising the safety of the buildings. LCR has a 15 years experience in science-driven engineering of construction materials, starting with the launching, in 1999, of the first range of ultrahigh-performance concrete and, in 2000, with the first industrial range of self-placing concrete. Recently, they were able to put on the market a novel concrete with a thermal conductivity divided by three, which enables the development of several solutions for energy-efficient building, in partnership with French and Spanish contractors. This IIP placement includes research on the physical characterization of cementitious materials: applications, limits and synergies between three techniques BET, MIP and H+ NMR. The IIP intern will compare and combine the results of different analytical techniques (BET surface, mercury intrusive porosimetry, NMR cryoporometry) concerning porosity characterization in different cementitious materials. The IIP Intern will also improve the knowledge, and more particularly clarify the application range and the limits of each technique; define the synergy between these three techniques and suggest other techniques if necessary. One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. This IIP placement is part a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and engineering students are preferred.

Metis Gaia
Location: Lima and Arequipa, Peru
Metis Gaia connects science and engineering for development in order to discover new and better ways to help societies progress with a baseline goal of corporate social responsibility. Metis Gaia is committed to promoting integrated work, empowerment, and diverse critical thinking to find innovative, context-specific, sustainable solutions for development. IIP interns can help produce: socioeconomic diagnosis, baseline studies, stakeholder analyses; help in the planning on: socioeconomic and productive development initiatives, corporate social responsibility, impact management, citizen participation programs; and contribute to the evaluation, monitoring, and communication for these issues. She or he might also work on projects related to impact analysis, alternatives and projections, risk and management; cost-benefit analysis; economic impact valuation; socioeconomic programs and projects and social and public policy formulation and advisory services. Other tasks the IIP intern might assist with are fundraising efforts, specifically in research, writing and submitting grants, taking the grant writing process from beginning to end.  Interested interns will undergo an interview process through which Metis Gaia will discuss and determine which types of projects would be best for them personally based on their academic background and personal interests. Spanish proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) is a must. This placement is ideal for IIP candidates who demonstrate a commitment to development and have interests in economics, sociology, psychology or engineering. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.

Middle East Scientific Institute for Security (MESIS)
Location: Amman, Jordan
An NGO based in Amman, Jordan, MESIS is a joint initiative between the Royal Scientific Society and the U.S. Department of Energy. MESIS deals with a variety of issues on the regional level relating to energy, environment, and borders. MESIS’ main role is to develop and implement regional training and engagement programs for experts and officials with a view to enhance the role of scientific and technological solutions to the region’s challenges, specifically those that are cross-border by nature. The internship is flexible in the sense that the IIP intern can be involved in a number of issues. For instance, while planning and implementing a major international conference at MESIS, the IIP intern can be involved in budgeting, logistics, protocol, outreach, and customer relations and/or the content-side of the event (such as incorporating water modeling technologies into regional track II discussions on water, developing a regional response plan for a pandemic outbreaks/biohazard outbreaks/nuclear accidents, and testing infrasound technologies to be used for the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty verification regime). The MESIS organization is small (about seven permanent staff members) but has a wide network of supporters and deals with high level officials. The team is quite ambitious and driven. All staff members are fluent in English. However, there is still opportunity for IIP interns to improve their Arabic language skills. This placement is ideal for IIP candidates with interests in international affairs, public policy, development, Middle East studies, hard sciences, management, marketing, science, and technology. Engineering and computer skills would be an asset, but are not required. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics
Location: Trieste, Italy
The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics is a public-sector scientific institution that promotes, coordinates, and carries out research at the international level in the fields of physical, chemical and biological oceanography, marine geophysics, applied and exploration geophysics, and seismology. Humankind influences its environment to a significant extent and is in turn increasingly dependent on its changes. Climate change, increasing vulnerability to natural hazards, and other critical developments have been observed for decades, and important resources, such as drinking water, fertile soils, and energy sources threaten to become scarce. Consideration of all kinds of primary energy and the broad-based exploration of innovative technologies for the efficient and effective conversion, storage and use of energy forms is absolutely essential in this respect. This is why NIOGS is engaged in foresighted, preventive research for the future. This IIP internship provides a great opportunity for IIP candidates with interests in physics, engineering, oceanography, seismology, geophysics for environmental applications, marine biology, and earth sciences. The particular project can be tailored to the student’s particular background/interest in the aforementioned areas. Basic math and physics, as well as a background in environmental sciences, are assets. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.View a Powerpoint presentation (.pdf) by a past intern.

Ruhr University Bochum, Research Internship with Chair for Embedded Security, Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences Department
Location: Bochum, Germany
The Chair for Embedded Security in the ECE Department of the Ruhr University Bochum is one of the leading groups in the area of applied cryptography and security in embedded devices. Its research typically incorporates advanced hardware and software implementation techniques with cryptography and algorithms. The Department frequently host foreign visitors and cooperates with the University of Massachusetts, Stanford University, the University of Waterloo, and WPI. The group is especially interested in IIP candidates with a background in EE/ECE, computer science, or mathematics. Possible research areas for the IIP intern include:

• Security analysis (including "hacking") of RFID tokens and wireless devices such as the ePassport or access tokens for buildings and cars
• High-performance FPGA-based computers for code breaking 
• Analysis of password choices by humans and improved password-search strategies
• Embedded forensics for Blackberry-like devices
• Computer architectures for novel cryptographic schemes
• Lightweight cryptographic implementation in software on embedded processors

One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. This IIP placement is part of the Princeton-Con Ruhr International Research Fellowship Program (Reach), a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and is reserved for engineering students only. This is an opportunity for selected Princeton University engineering student to participate in an eight-week research internship in their field of study that will provide them with hands-on experience with new technology and with international approaches to engineering sciences. The IIP intern will also receive on-site opportunities to improve cultural competence by taking German language course, attending lectures in European economics, policy and culture, and making site visits to German corporations, and participating in the international science conference.

Ruhr University Bochum, Research Internship with Institute for Materials
Location: Bochum, Germany
The Institute for Materials has existed since the Ruhr-Universität was founded and is well known nationally and internationally. Today, the Institute for Materials consists of the Research Group for Materials Science and Engineering, the Research Group for Materials Technology, the Research Group for Materials Testing, and the Research Group for Materials for Microsystems. Directors from the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Max-Planck- Institute Düsseldorf are associated adjunct professors who cover the areas of Materials Processing and Interfaces, while an adjunct professor affiliated with the German Aerospace center (DLR) covers the area of Materials for Aerospace. The Institute for Materials is therefore large enough to perform high level materials research and teaching. In addition to the traditional fields of expertise (alloy steels, light metals, hard alloys, high temperature materials), research at the Institute for Materials also focuses on new multifunctional materials (especially shape memory alloys) and materials for small scale systems in harsh environments. IIP candidates should have a background in materials science. Possible areas of research for the IIP intern include:

• (Ferromagnetic) Shape memory alloys
• Superalloys
• Combinatorial materials science

One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.

This IIP placement is part of the Princeton-Con Ruhr International Research Fellowship Program (Reach), a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and is reserved for engineering students only. This is an opportunity for selected Princeton University engineering student to participate in an eight-week research internship in their field of study that will provide them with hands-on experience with new technology and with international approaches to engineering sciences. The IIP intern will also receive on-site opportunities to improve cultural competence by taking German language course, attending lectures in European economics, policy and culture, and making site visits to German corporations, and participating in the international science conference.

Seureca
Location: Paris, France
Seureca is Veolia Water's international consulting engineering subsidiary. The company focuses on international water development projects, targeting all stages of the water project development cycle (master planning, feasibility studies, financial feasibility, tendering, and construction supervision) and all disciplines within the water sector (institutional, technical, managerial/operational). Seureca has clients and colleagues worldwide, and the intern should be prepared to work on any aspect of projects on an as-needed basis. Seureca's offices work all over the world and are headquartered in Paris. This placement is for an engineering student to intern in the Paris offices and work on a variety of water-related projects. The IIP intern will work under the supervision of an engineer in the execution of one of many on-going projects in the water sector: drinking water and sanitation. Typical activities could include report/document reading and preparation, network or treatment plant modeling, technical/financial modeling, assistance with bids, translation, etc. MS Excel and basic programming, and engineering skills are helpful. Intermediate to advanced French is preferred; however, all language skills are useful (Portuguese, Russian, Kiswahili, Chinese, Hindi, Bulgarian, Arabic [ME/Algerian/Moroccan], etc.) and would therefore be an asset. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.

• The analysis of data from German OEM
• The conception of network design alternatives
• The implementation of programming tasks
• The processing of documents

Technical University Dortmund, Research Internship with Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Process Dynamics and Operations Group (DYN)
Location: Dortmund, Germany
With more than 20 researchers, Process Dynamics and Operations Group (DYN), one of the largest of the 13 chairs that constitute the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering of the TU Dortmund, offers interns the opportunity to participate in three ongoing research activities in the area of model-based design of complex systems, namely model transformations and the extension and optimization of a miniature pipeless plant. Besides the optimization and verification of hybrid systems,DYN's fields of research include the modeling, (logic) control, optimization, and operation of a variety of chemical processing systems, e.g. reactive distillation, chromatographic separations, and emulsion polymerization. Further research focuses on the scheduling of batch processes and the synthesis of integrated processes and process networks. DYN offers a variety of lectures in the fields of modeling, control, optimization, operation, and analytics of processing systems, many of which are held in English. The IIP intern will conduct research on one of the following three ongoing research areas:

• Model transformations:
  Although modeling, simulation, and analysis of complex dynamic systems is becoming increasingly popular in industry, most of the employed software tools (e.g. Dymola (Modelica), Matlab, gPROMS, EcosimPro etc.) are specialized in a certain field of application. In combination with limited model exchange capabilities and proprietary modeling languages, it is hardly possible to use the best tool for the different activities during the design cycle of a system. To relieve these restraints, algorithmic model transformations between a set of tools are currently developed. During the internship, interested students could work on: definition and formalization of reasonable subsets of modeling languages; development of transformations on subsets of different languages; extension of existing transformations with metadata This focus area is ideal for an IIP candidate with a background in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar fields.

• Optimization of a Miniature Pipeless Plant
  As a test bed for the model-based methods, a miniature pipeless plant was developed and built at DYN. It employs autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) to transport vessels, which contain the process substances, between the process stations, where the unit operations are conducted. Students could work on one or several of the following topics: scheduling of AGVs and recipes; advanced AGV path-finding and collision avoidance algorithms; development of a hierarchical Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system; application of model transformations in the design process. This focus area is ideal for an IIP candidate with a background in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering and interest in interdisciplinary work.

• Automated testing of logic controllers:
  Faulty logic controllers frequently lead to undesired and very costly delays during the commissioning of e.g. automation systems of chemical processes. The manual testing of such complex automation system is tedious and can only involve subsets of all possible scenarios due to e.g. time restrictions. Automated testing algorithms will help the programmer to validate the correctness of the controller before commissioning. Students could work on one or several of the following topics: algorithmic generation of sets of test cases based on e.g. a formal specification of the desired behavior; automated testing procedures; analysis and visualization of the results of such an automated test This focus area is ideal for an IIP candidate with a background in Computer Science, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering and an interest in programming and interdisciplinary work.

One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. This IIP placement is part of the Princeton-Con Ruhr International Research Fellowship Program (Reach), a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and is reserved for engineering students only. This is an opportunity for selected Princeton University engineering student to participate in an eight-week research internship in their field of study that will provide them with hands-on experience with new technology and with international approaches to engineering sciences. The IIP intern will also receive on-site opportunities to improve cultural competence by taking German language course, attending lectures in European economics, policy and culture, and making site visits to German corporations, and participating in the international science conference.

UNICEF Madagascar
Location: Antananarivo, Madagascar
One of the biggest challenges facing UNICEF field operations in the developing world is access to accurate, reliable and timely information. With the recent proliferation of technology throughout the developing world, the ability to improve this access has become cheaper and the tools to do so more ubiquitous. In late 2007, UNICEF HQ began development of RapidSMS, an open-source Django-based framework supporting software programmers to quickly develop and customize specialized applications. Built to allow any mobile phone to interact with the web via SMS text messages, past projects have focused on creating tools for remote diagnostics, logistics coordination, community messaging, data collection and communication. In Madagascar, UNICEF is working to establish a standing RapidSMS ‘hub’ with which myriad customized applications of the framework can be deployed across UNICEF’s program focus areas—health, education, protection, youth participation, and communication for development—in response to the diverse needs identified therein. The core objective of deploying RapidSMS in Madagascar is to improve access to information, streamline data management, and promote participatory development programming across multiple sectors at national level. By transforming the way data is collected and applied through its simple but dynamic two-way communication channels, RapidSMS aims to empower stakeholders—duty-bearers and rights-claimers alike—with unprecedented speed, efficiency, and accuracy in their day-to-day communication needs. As part of the Communication & Technology for Development (C4D/T4D) team, the intern would play a critical role in the technical development and deployment of UNICEF Madagascar’s RapidSMS platform. Working directly with program specialists, development experts, and local partners—both civil society and private sector agencies—the intern would have the opportunity to bring projects from concept to completion and gain invaluable ‘on-the-ground’ experience in the developing world context. Applicants in computer science or engineering are preferred, but Interests should cut across the humanities and the engineering sciences, especially interest (and coursework experience) in both international development and computer programming. The intern should have experience with a mix of the following: Python or Ruby; Django (or extensive experience with a framework such as Cheetah, Camping, Rails); Source code management / Version control systems (Git); AJAX and JavaScript including libraries (such as jQuery and Mootools); mySQL (postgres); XHTML and CSS; XML. Fluency in English is required and basic French would be an asset.

University of Duisberg-Essen, Research Internship with Chair of Business Administration and Operations Management
Location: Essen, Germany
The Chair of Business Administration and Operations Management is part of the unit for Industrial Engineering within the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering of the University of Duisburg-Essen. This research group is working on quantitative models and methods in manufacturing, including machine scheduling, supply chain co-ordination schemes etc. In their research work, they apply an integrated business and engineering perspective in their approach. IIP interns will work on projects related to one of the following areas:

• Lot streaming, scheduling and due date related objectives in manufacturing
• Hybrid flow shop scheduling problems with flow time objective
• Multi-criteria hybrid flow shop scheduling
• Statistical testing of hypotheses in numerical studies on manufacturing scheduling
• Multi-criteria machine scheduling including work-in-process

One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. This IIP placement is part of the Princeton-Con Ruhr International Research Fellowship Program (Reach), a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and is reserved for engineering students only. This is an opportunity for selected Princeton University engineering student to participate in an eight-week research internship in their field of study that will provide them with hands-on experience with new technology and with international approaches to engineering sciences. The IIP intern will also receive onsite opportunities to improve cultural competence by taking German language course, attending lectures in European economics, policy and culture, and making site visits to German corporations, and participating in the international science conference.

University of Duisberg-Essen, Research Internship on the Electronic Properties of Semi-Conducting Nanoparticles
Location: Essen, Germany
Electronic properties of semi-conducting nanoparticles: Semiconducting nanoparticles have a great potential for optical and electronic applications. The advantages of nanoscale particles combined with the properties of a semiconductor could be used in photovoltaics, light emitting and electronic devices. However the electronic band structure and the current transport mechanism are still not fully understood. The goal of this project is to characterize the electronic and optical properties of these particles through optoelectronic, electronic and magneto-transport measurements. The experiments are done in microoptical and high field magnetic measurement setup. Additional optical characterisation of the used nanoparticles by photoluminescence measurements will be conducted. The objective of the project involves sample design, sample preparation and electrical/optical characterization. This IIP intern will be involved with the following:

• Design of a suitable sample and measurement geometry
• Sample preparation (several clean-room-fabrication procedures such as: optical lithography, spin coating, and evaporation)
• Electrical and optical characterization of the device

One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern. This IIP placement is part of the Princeton-Con Ruhr International Research Fellowship Program (Reach), a joint initiative of the International Internship Program and the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and is reserved for engineering students only. This is an opportunity for selected Princeton University engineering student to participate in an eight-week research internship in their field of study that will provide them with hands-on experience with new technology and with international approaches to engineering sciences. The IIP intern will also receive onsite opportunities to improve cultural competence by taking German language course, attending lectures in European economics, policy and culture, and making site visits to German corporations, and participating in the international science conference.

University of Oslo, Department of Physics
Location: Oslo, Norway
The Complex Systems and Soft Materials group is one of the largest physics research networks in Norway (www.complexphysics.org/). It consists of scientists from the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Institute for Energy Technology. A wide range of topics are pursued, including pattern formation in complex fluids, multiphase flows, granular materials, fracture, soft materials, and nanoscience. IIP interns will work as members of a dynamic research group and gain experience in planning and execution of projects at the forefront of international research on complex materials. The group has a range of advanced scientific instruments and imaging equipment available and strong activity in simulation and theoretical modeling of non-equilibrium systems. The IIP interns will be able to choose a project that they find interesting, run experiments, and analyze and present their findings. Typically a project involves building or modifying simple bench-top experimental setups and running a series of experiments where a few parameters of interest are varied. From the collected data, one then aims to build an understanding of the physical mechanisms and forces that generate the observed patterns. This placement is ideal for IIP candidates with interests in physics. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. Possible projects may include the following (several other projects will also be available):

1. Hydraulic fracturing: Study the dynamics of fracture propagation in deformable materials upon injection of pressurized fluids. Do the fractures behave differently if we change the rate of injection or the compressibility of the fluid?
2. Frictional fingering: We have discovered a new pattern formation process that results in labyrinthine structures in fully dried out granular mixtures. But what happens if we instead inject air and let the structure grow freely? Will we get branching fractals?
3. Braided rivers in the lab: We can make miniature rivers in the lab by letting a small stream of water flow across layer of granular material. How can we characterize the dynamics of this river, e.g. how often does it change direction, and what are the distributions of wet/dry periods for a given place?

Visagio
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visagio is a business consulting and information technology firm, specializing in operations strategy, process engineering, organization design, and supply chain and logistics optimization. The IIP intern with Visagio will engage in short-term business and technical consulting projects with Visagio’s clients. Each IIP intern will be assigned to a primary consulting project in a market segment, such as manufacturing, mining and ferrous metallurgy, agribusiness, sugar and alcohol, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, and finance, among others. Throughout the IIP experience, the intern may participate on the following activities:

• Project management: schedule design and implementation
• Business process management: process mapping and modeling
• Organization design: area/department structuring and optimization
• Supply chain: logistics modeling and optimization
• Business planning: business plan development
• Tool development: computer programming 

IIP candidates with interests in business, computer science, engineering, and economics are encouraged to apply. Basic speaking, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese and intermediate Spanish skills are highly recommended. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.