{"id":1284,"date":"2013-10-18T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:52:17","slug":"summer-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/2013\/10\/18\/summer-internships\/","title":{"rendered":"Students give their education a lift with summer internships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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College of Business student Parker Edwards on his internship this summer with Alaska Airlines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oregon State College of Business student Parker Edwards heard a familiar phrase over and over this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if this is possible, but \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The Business Information Systems major spent his summer in Seattle with Alaska Airlines as a systems and process intern. Working with maintenance and engineering, Edwards\u2019 job was to structure the huge amount of data connected to every aircraft and make it easier to find areas needing repair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love data,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIt\u2019s so powerful. People get really excited. Someone would come in and say, I don\u2019t even know if this is possible, but if you can find a way \u2026 if I could click a button.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwards was just one of a number of College of Business students who worked around the country and the world this summer as interns with some of the biggest companies in their industries.<\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019 role with Alaska combined his interest in technology and problem solving with his love of aviation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get my pilot’s license as soon as I get out of school,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso working with an airline that\u2019s as prominent in the northwest as Alaska was a great opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interning with an airline also comes with perks beyond great experience.<\/p>\n

Between his time as a system and process analysis intern with Alaska, Edwards and other interns flew free around the west coast and to Alaska and Hawaii. Edwards\u2019 favorite trip was a day in Honolulu, leaving in the morning and returning the next day.<\/p>\n

Edwards also had a great view at the office.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s at the hangar, you can go downstairs at any given time and there would be 747s and just outside the door it\u2019s SeaTac International Airport,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was probably the coolest thing I could do there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Georgia Brown on her internship with Daimler Trucks North America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georgia Brown is still finishing her summer internship with Daimler Trucks North America in Portland.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Brown is part of MECOP. The prestigious, Oregon industry-sponsored program places students in a pair of paid six-month internships with some of the biggest firms in the Northwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most appealing thing about it was the fact that I would graduate with a year\u2019s worth of work experience in my major,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure what I want to do once I\u2019m out of college and having the chance to work for some of the most competitive companies in the Northwest is a great way to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a project management intern in the Daimler IT Finance department, Brown works as an analyst for her group, bringing together research from different sources to create easy-to-comprehend reports on a variety of topics.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I started my internship, I\u2019ve developed the department\u2019s Sharepoint site, created a customer relationship database in Access, and am working on documenting and learning TM1,\u201d she said. \u201cMy knowledge of IT in general has improved and developed way more than I ever thought it would.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the valuable real-life experience, Brown said her internship has helped her learn more about what she wants out of her own career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked to students before who are hesitant to do an internship because they don\u2019t know if they would enjoy that field, but I think this is the best way to try different career options and see what works for you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the School of Design and Human Environment Internship Program, more than 163 students completed internships during the 2012- 2013 school year with more than 109 companies. Overall, 11 <\/b>students interned in New York City\u2019s Garment District, eight in Los Angeles and three internationally.<\/p>\n

Through the program, facilitated by SDHE Internship Coordinator Sandy Burnett, students take a preparatory class before their internship and then a \u201cField Experience\u201d course during, with weekly check-ins to mark progress and goals.<\/p>\n

Merchandising Management student Kahli Lanning interned with Donna Karan during the summer, where she was able to work with teams from Donna Karan Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting to sit in on their meetings and being able to practice my Japanese in a business setting was a great experience for me,\u201d Lanning said. \u201cIt is a great program, and I think the experience I gained will be invaluable to my future career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregon State College of Business student Parker Edwards heard a familiar phrase over and over this summer. \u201cI don\u2019t know if this is possible, but \u2026\u201d The Business Information Systems major spent his summer in Seattle with Alaska Airlines as a systems and process intern. Working with maintenance and engineering, Edwards\u2019 job was to structure … <\/p>\n

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