Career & Professional Development Center
296 employers in 43 states, Canada, and Italy EFFECT OF INTERN/CO-OP EXPERIENCE ON AVERAGE SALARY OFFERS 2016-17 Graduates (BS degrees)
INTERN/CO-OP AVERAGE WAGE
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
$66,000 $64,000 $62,000
$62,223
$60,000 $58,000 $56,000
$54,746
$54,000
BENEFITS
$52,000 $50,000
No Experience
Intern/Co-op Experience
$20.00 $18.00
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Gain valuable work experience. Increase chances for job and higher salary offers. Earn money to help pay for college. Confirm or redefine your career focus. Strengthen communication and teamwork skills. Obtain academic credit.
$16.00 $14.00 $12.00 $10.00 $8.00
* Some employers also provide free or reduced housing, completion bonuses, and relocation expenses that are not included in the salary average.
Mines students gained undergraduate research experience this past year at Air Force Research Laboratory, Avera Health, Dartmouth College, Los Alamos National Laboratory, North Carolina State University, Sanford Health, Sanford Underground Research Facility, South Dakota Mines, Stanford University, University of Florida, University of Iowa, University of North Carolina, University of South Dakota, and University of South Carolina.
$6.00 $4.00 $2.00 0
$18.45
MORE INFORMATION Darrell Sawyer, EdD, Director Matt Hanley, Manager of Career & Professional Development Hilary Eaton, Program Assistant II Career & Professional Development Center 501 E. St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701 605.394.2667 careercenter@sdsmt.edu http://careers.sdsmt.edu 9/18
INTERNSHIPS
& CO-OPS
Where our Students Interned in 2018 AK
Coeur Mining Nucor PDC Engineers
AL
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Nucor
AR
Kimberly-Clark Corporation Union Pacific Railroad
AZ
Freeport McMoRan Lhoist
CA
Balfour Beatty Construction CalPortland David Evans and Associates DEC Engineers Dow DuPont Hillphoenix Inc. imo.im Kiewit Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Southland Industries US Army Corps of Engineers
CO
Ball Aerospace Dietzler Construction Douglas County Government Engineering Ministries International Freeport McMoRan Hewlett Packard Inovonics Kiewit KL & A Olsson Associates Rocksol Spectrum
CT
PRS
FL
Air Force Civil Engineer Center Air Force Research Laboratory Mosaic NASA Kennedy Space Center
GA
Republic Conduit
IA
Arconic Cargill Emerson Hormel Foods Jebro Le Claire Mfg RS Stover Company Rockwell Collins Osky foods
ID
Kiewit
IL
Cargill IBM Caterpillar ITW Innovations Komatsu Nucor
IN
Caterpillar DLZ Engineers & Architects Steel Dynamics Inc.
KS
Black and Veatch Cornejo & Sons Garmin
KY
Dow Chemical Logan Aluminum Republic Conduit
MA
Draper Keurig Green Mountain LafargeHolcim MAS Electric
MD
Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center
MI
Cargill Hobart LafargeHolcim
MN
Northern Technologies, LLC Park Construction POET Polaris Industries QA1 Precision Products Starkey Hearing Technologies T. O. Plastics Target Corporation Thomson Reuter Northshore Mining MO
Burns and McDonnell Union Pacific Railroad
MS
Steel Dynamics Inc
MT
Hecla Mining Morrison Maierle Stillwater Mining Westmoreland Coal Oldcastle Materials Westmoreland Coal
ND
US Army Aberdeen Test Center
ADM Altec Industries American Foods Group Bedford Industries BKV Group Blattner Energy Bolton & Menk Braun Intertec Burns and McDonnell Caterpillar Celestica Cliffs Natural Resources Conexus Energy Doran Companies Emerson Engel Metallurgical Fast Global Solutions Hutchinson Technology Kit Masters Mattson MacDonald & Young Maverick Computer Solutions Nortech Aerospace Systems Northern Engineering and Consulting
NE
Appareo Systems Braun Intertec Dakota Gasification Doosan Bobcat Doosan Info & Communications John Deere Electronic Solutions KLJ Microsoft MN Valley Testing Laboratories NISC Steffes Corporation Westmoreland Coal ASC Capacitors Baldwin Filters Becton Dickinson Cardinal Health Cargill Central Nebraska Public Power Claas Hornady Manufacturing Company Kiewit Northern Natural Gas Nucor Parker Hannifin Union Pacific Railroad UTC Aerospace Systems William H Harvey
NM
BNSF Los Alamos National Lab
NV
Barrick Gold
Kimley-Horn Newmont Mining NY
Cargill Kiewit New York Stem Cell Foundation
OH
Cargill
OK
Halliburton John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Michelin Oklahoma Gas & Electric
OR
DOWL Oldcastle Materials
PA
Cargill Versum Materials
SC
Horry County Government LafargeHolcim Martin Marietta Materials Michelin
SD
Accurpress America Adams Thermal Systems Agropur American Engineering Testing Assurant Avera B9 Creations Baldwin Filters Basin Electric Black Hills Corporation Black Hills Forest Service Black Hills Information Security Black Hills Knowledge Network BLM WildFire Mitigation Brosz Engineering Burns and McDonnell BX Civil & Construction Caterpillar CEGA Innovations CHR Solutions City of Aberdeen City of Sioux Falls Dakota Bodies Dakota Ethanol Plant Dakotaland Manufacturing Daktronics ETMI Factor 360 Ferber Engineering Company Gage Brothers Concrete Glacial Lakes Rubber and Plastics
Golden West Telecommunications Graco Hendrickson Suspension HFW Solutions Hub City Inc. Hydro Extrusions Innovative Systems KPI KTM Design Solutions Lehigh Defense Littelfuse LZ MASABA Inc. MDU Midco Midwest Manufacturing Minitou Gehl Molded Fiber Glass National Weather Service North Atlantic Industries Northern Technologies LLC Northwestern Mutual OEM Solutions Omnitech POET Polaris Industries Precision Mapping & Reconstruction Primary Manufacturing Rapid Fire Corporation Raven Industries RESPEC Inc. RMS Roller-Grinder Sage Project Consultants SAPA Extrusion SDSM&T Sencore Simon Contractors Sioux Steel South Dakota Army National Guard South Dakota BIT South Dakota Dept of Social Services South Dakota DOT South Dakota Game Fish & Parks South Dakota Legislature South Dakota Wildland Fire Stockwell Engineers Terex Utilities Trail King United States Geological Survey US Air Force US Army Corps of Engineers Vermeer Vishay Electronics Western Area Power Association Western States Fire Protection Worthington Industries Wurth Electronics Midcom
TN
Nucor Blattner Energy
TX
Cargill Dow Chemical Kiewit Laversab Raven Aerostar United Airlines WSP
UT
ConeTec Inc L3 Technologies LafargeHolcim Nucor US Air Force
VA
Apex Clean Energy Newport News Shipbuilding Pons & Associates ProAct
WA
Amazon Coughlin Porter Lundeen Department of the Navy Federal Bureau of Investigation Intellectual Ventures Laboratory Microsoft NOAA/NWS Washington State DOT
WI
Agropur Bombardier Kimberly-Clark Komatsu McNally Industries Oshkosh Corp. Source Energy Services Walbec
WY
Advanced Geotechnical Solutions Ciner Genesis Alkali Halliburton Oftedal Construction Peabody Energy Powder River Energy Corporation Solvay WWW Engineering Wyoming Dinosaur Center