UTSA Engineering debuts summer internship

by Kris Rodriguez (photo)

UTSA Public Affairs Specialist

60 area high school students will earn $900 for participation

What: UTSA College of Engineering hosts an inaugural summer internship program for 60 area high school students who will be exposed to research in the college’s laboratories. Over the summer break each student will be required to complete 48-hours of laboratory observation with an assigned mentor.

Students completing the internship will receive $900 for their participation. Those who decide to enroll at UTSA full time and are accepted, could earn $3,600 to assist with finances in their freshman year.

The program, the first of it’s kind for the College of Engineering, is upported with nearly $500,000 in funding from the Department of Education’s Math, Science and Engineering Initiative Program and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Youth in Technology program.

When: Tuesday, June 5 (10:30 a.m.-Noon)
Where: UTSA 1604 Campus
Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building
Second Floor Conference Room (2.102)

DIRECTIONS: From I-10, Turn left on UTSA Boulevard, pass Valero Way and follow to James Baurle entrance on right side of the road. Five-story Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building is located on the left.

For more information, call Mehdi Shadaram at (210) 458-4431 or

mehdi.shadaram@utsa.edu