Internships and Career Opportunities:
All students are encouraged to discuss internship and career opportunities with their academic advisor. Students are strongly encouraged to utilize the JHU Career Center. The Career Center provides assistance in resume preparation, interviewing skills, job and internship search preparation, and other skills. In particular, all students should create a J-Connect account and upload their resume to the Career Center. Periodically the Department will receive requests from companies for internships or entry-level positions - the online resumes listed on J-Connect are forwarded on to these companies. The Department also informally maintains a page on LinkedIn where students and alumni from the Department can connect - students are strongly encouraged to join the Johns Hopkins Civil Engineering group on LinkedIn.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities:
All students are strongyl encouraged to participate in undergraduate research. Given the small number of students, all interested students typically can be readily placed. However, placement within a research group is not a formal process and requires initiative on the part of the student. The rewards are significant, research iteself can be addictive and intensely rewarding as you make the transition from knowledge acquisition to knowledge creation. Productive undergraduate research provides a window into another portion of the Hopkins enterprise, and can help a student determine what future path is best for themselves. In addition, undergraduate research provides a deeper more collaborative experience with graduate students and faculty - the type of experience that translates well in recommendation and reference letters.
How to find research opportunities
How to fund your research
Volunteer, Academic Credit, or Pay?
Most undergraduate researchers begin as volunteers, and many stay that way throughout their time as undergraduate researchers. Volunteering is a fantastic, reasonably low committment way, to initiate research.
For students interested in delving more deeply into their research, willing to produce academic output commisserate with a class, and where there research advisor agrees it is sometimes possible to perform undergraduate research for credit. The procedures are briefly outlined at the bottom of the WSE undergraduate research page.
In some cases research advisors may have funding available for undergradute researchers. You should feel free to ask any faculty member if that is the case. Although funding is not available in all cases, in many instances at least partial support ia available. Terms of the funding, hourly, for the semester, etc. are on a case-by-case basis and are determined by your research advisor.