Finding an Internship

Internships are a valuable experience to have during your graduate career. They allow you to apply what you learn in the classroom to real world problems, and work with industry professionals, forging relationships that can lead to collaboration and employment down the line. We host an annual internship orientation, where senior students can discuss internships they have had in the past and discuss them in more detail. This page is mean to be an aggregation of available resources and history of student internships. 

ECAC

The Engineering Career Assistance Center (ECAC) is a resource provided by the University to help students find internships and jobs. They host two career fairs per year. Additionally, information from ECAC is regularly emailed to all engineering students.

Career Fairs

In addition to the ECAC career fair, many schools an organizations host their own career fairs:
  1. College of Natural Sciences Technology & Science Career Fair
  2. McCombs Business School Career Fair
  3. Graduate Engineering Council Graduate And Industry Networking (GAIN) Event

Additional Resources

  1. UT Austin Graduate Student Career & Professional Development Events Calendar
  2. Most importantly, network with your fellow students and your professors! They likely have many suggestions to give you. 

Past Employers

One of the challenges of finding an internship in ORIE is simply identifying companies that hire operations researchers. Below, please find some of the companies where UT ORIE students have worked in the past, and are good employers of students with an ORIE background. If you have had an internship in ORIE but the company you worked for is not on this list, please fill out this form so we can update this list, and your experience can serve as a reference for future ORIE students!

Microsoft 
Apple
NXP Semiconductors
Sandia National Labs
Visa 
Sandoz Novartis
Liberty Mutual
VMWare
Los Alamos National Lab
BNSF Railway
Sabre
Schlumberger
AIG
National Renewable Energy Laboratories
Wayfair
Amazon
Fair Isaac Corporation
Cummins
Visio Financial Sense
Incenergy
Websense