Internships enhance skills
Students in the undergraduate program in information science will participate in a capstone experience which might include doing an internship with regional companies and organizations.
Internships offer you a chance to gain real-world experience, to craft a portfolio that showcases your work and abilities, and to begin to make valuable contacts in the field. At the iSchool, we encourage our BSIS students to take advantage of the fact that Pittsburgh is home to over 65 major corporations, many of which make the Forbes Top 1000 list.
Internship Guidelines and Forms
Below, you’ll find a representative listing of internship opportunities which our BSIS students excelled in the last three years. It’s interesting to note that these iSchool students were involved in state-of-the-art IT projects for a diverse group of employers ranging from manufacturers to retailers to healthcare-related service providers.
Host: Google
Tasks: Created an automated regression testing framework, which is currently being used for testing security and functionality
Host: PPG Industries
Tasks: Enhanced data-driven Web Portal applications
Designed and developed relational databases for critical applications
Managed requirements
Projects placed into production and currently in use
Host: FedEx
Tasks: Provided technical support for mission-critical Vehicle Route Planning application
Identified and documented bugs
Worked with users to resolve problems
Host: Alcoa
Tasks: Developed knowledge-management portal
Gathered requirements, developed content and redesigned Web pages
Toured production facilities to learn the business
Host: Del Monte Foods
Tasks: Implemented B2B web application (Visual Basic.NET, SQL Server), which was placed into the production environment
Host: Giant Eagle
Tasks: Modeled enterprise architecture
Created visual models of IT assets
Modeled PeopleSoft Portal
Modeled enterprise organizational structure
Host: National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance
Tasks: Analyzing intelligence
Gathered and analyzed intelligence on suspected criminal activities
Conducted forensic malware analysis
Recommended web server platform for research in malware simulation
Host: Fiserv
Tasks: Installed & configured software development lifecycle tool (JIRA)
Wrote custom JIRA plug-in
Wrote glue code (JAVA) to integrate JIRA with third-party application
Wrote Unix shell scripts
Host: Surgical Neuromonitoring Associates
Tasks: Enhanced company website
Beta-tested neurological monitoring software
Wrote user manual
Trained hospital staff
For more information about internships in the BSIS Program, please contact:
Dmitriy Babichenko
722 IS Building
412-624-9907
dmb72@pitt.edu