Internship Opportunities -2009 US

All of the Organizations listed below that have already updated their sites for 2009, or offer opportunities on an annual basis will be indicated by a (2009) after the co-op link
This website has selected co-ops from the larger Biology & Biotechnology Co-op Opportunities on the Web website that has "biomedical engineering "as a descriptor or may be of particular interest to students considering a career in the field.In addition to the valuable experience and good pay that a Co-op or Internship will give you, very many of the Opportunities listed on this website also provide Travel Reimbursement, Housing and Meals. So, don't let concerns about living expenses or the location of an organization posted on this website prevent you from checking out an exciting and challenging Co-op or Internship position!! If travel support, housing and meals are provided, this information will almost always be included in the details about the Co-op or Internship that can be found by clicking on the co-op website next to the organization's name and location.

To view information for any organization listed below:a. Point and click with your mouse on the organization's name to go to its homepage (for a university or college, you might want to go further to the homepage of the sponsoring department or program at that university or college, if it is not already the "homepage" link that is provided here). b. Point and click with your mouse on co-op to go to co-op/internship/research postings for that organization or to the website from which you can then access the co-op/internship/research postings
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY - co-op, application (2009) "Undergraduates Majoring in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Sciences, Engineering and other "Quantitative" Sciences: Cross-Training in the Biomedical Sciences"

Auburn University, Auburn, AL - co-op, application (2009) Interdisciplinary Studies for Sensor and Biosensor Development - open to all undergraduate students enrolled in biology, chemistry, engineering,"

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX - co-op, application (2009) Summer Medical And Research Training (SMART) Program - Biomedical Engineering is one research field area that can be selected on applicationBoston University, College of Engineering, Boston, MA - co-op (2008) Research Experience for Undergraduates in Biomedical Engineering

California Nanosystems Institute, Los Angeles & Santa Barbara, CA - co-op (2009)

Case Western University, Cleveland, OH - co-op (2009) Summer Undergraduate Research Program for Minorities - several participating departments including Biomedical Engineering in School of Engineering

Case Western University, Cleveland, OH - co-op (2009) Biomedical Engineering is one participating departmentCase Western University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, OH - co-op (2009)

Clarion Health Partners, Inc, Methodist Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN - co-op (2009) Clemson University, Department of Bioengeering, Clemson, SC - co-op (2009) Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute (BBSI)Cleveland Clinic, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, OH - co-op (2009) "applications will be continuously reviewed" - Undergraduate Engineering in Medical Research - positions are five-six months in length

Columbia University, Biological Sciences, New York, NY - co-op (2009) Amgen Scholars Program - includes Mentors from the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Cornell University, Nanobiotechnology Center, Ithaca, NY - co-op (2009)
Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Molecular Materials Group, Hanover, NH - co-op (2009)

Drexel University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2009) includes projects in Biomaterials and BiotechnologyDuke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC - co-op (2009) scroll down to Educating Today's Engineers, click on Opportunities for students from colleges and universities across the nation to research at Duke - "offers research in all the departments of the Pratt School of Engineering—Biomedical Engineering,.....
Georgia Tech, Materials Science & Engineering, Atlanta, GA - co-op (2008)

Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues, Atlanta, GA - co-op (2008) "For more information, contact: education@ibb.gatech.eduHarvard University, Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2009) application is for 2009 - "We are seeking undergraduates from chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and geophysics"

Harvard University, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2008) Biomedical Optics Hospital for Joint Diseases, Musculosketal Research Center, New York, NY - co-op (2009) Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Huntington Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, CA - co-op (2009) "Accepting Applications for the Summer 2009" - "No stipend or housing assistance is provided for the participation in the program. (Exceptions can be made on an individual basis and verification of financial need will be required.)" - "previous lab experience in biology/chemistry/biomedical engineering"
Illinois Institute of Technology, Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education, Chicago, IL - co-op (2009)

Iowa State University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Ames, IA - co-op (2009) "Application for the 2009 Summer Research Program - Check back January 2009 - Biological Materials and Processes

Iowa State University, The Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program, Ames, IA - co-op (2009) Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education Emerging Interface Technologies for "Students working towards an undergraduate degree in any of the HCI disciplines." - includes biosystems engineering
Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Baltimore, MD - co-op (2009)

Johns Hopkins University, Institute for NanoBiotechnology, Baltimore, MD - co-op (2009) Exploration of Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine
Kent State University, Department of Chemistry, Kent. OH - co-op (2009) several projects focus on biomaterials

Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI - co-op, (2009) - for RIT, Gallaudet University, and California State-Northridge deaf and hard-of-hearing students only - scroll down to How to Apply - Some projects in Physiology-Related Fields may be of interest to biomedical engineers
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA - co-op (2009) "apply on-line at the Department of Energy's SULI site: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/ERULF/about.html" - Undergraduate Research Opportunities - Academic Majors include Engineering - Biological: Nanoparticle-Based Cancer Imaging Solutions

LeHigh University, Biosystems Dynamics Summer Institute, Bethlehem, PA - co-op, application (2009)

Louisiana Tech University, Biomedical Engineering Program, Ruston, LA - co-op (2009) application is for 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2009) Amgen-UROP Scholars Program - "research, potentially including: Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (for bioengineering/biotechnology only),"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA - co-op, application (2009) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2009)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2009) "Research in such areas as....bioengineering..."Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2008) Biomedical Optics

Mayo Clinic and Graduate School, Rochester, MN - co-op, application (2009) Biomedical Engineering is one participating department Milwaukee School of Engineering, Rapid Prototyping Center, Milwaukee, WI - co-op (2008) "Students who have completed their sophomore year of an engineering, pre-engineering, computer science or science-based (biology, chemistry, physics, etc.) curriculum"National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science, Bethesda, MD - co-op (2009) Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship ProgramNational Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (13 university locations) - co-op (more details about the 2009 program) (2009)

Northwestern University, Biomedical Engineering & Department of Physiology, Evanston, IL AND Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Sensory Motor Performance Program, Chicago, IL - co-op (2009) Summer Internships in Neural Engineering Northwestern University, The Graduate School, Evanston, IL - co-op (2009) Summer Research Opportunity Program - Current Faculty Members include two in Chemical and Biological Engineering and several in Neural Engineering

Northwestern University, Materials Research Science & Engineering Center, Evanston, IL - co-op (2009) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) application includes biomaterials

Northwestern University, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Evanston, IL - co-op (2009) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) application includes biomaterials
Oakland University, Rochester, MI - co-op (2009) Summer Institute in Bioengineering and Health Informatics

Oregon Health & Science University, Neurological Sciences Institute, Portland, OR - co-op (2008) "...students majoring in biology, neuroscience, bioengineering,....."
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA - co-op (2009) Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology Summer Institute

Pennsylvania State University, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry, University Park, PA AND Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA - co-op (2009) Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology Summer Institute

Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2009) Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, San Antonio, TX - co-op (2009)

Princeton University, Princeton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton, NJ - co-op (2009) "We encourage applications for all science and engineering disciplines" - Projects offered in 2008 include some related to life science

Purdue University, College of Engineering, West Lafayette, IN - co-op, application (2009) Research areas include Bio-Transport and Micro Vascular System, Biomedical Acoustics and Signal Processing, Biomedical Electromagnetic, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Optics, Tissue Engineering

Rice University, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Houston, TX - co-op (2009) Application is for 2009 - Bionanotechnology - scroll down to the last paragraph, "The summer internship program for undergraduates majoring in engineering..."Rice University, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Houston, TX - co-op (2009) Application is for 2009 - Internship in Cellular Engineering

Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ - co-op (2009) Integrated Science and Engineering of Stem Cells

Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, Graduate School-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ - co-op, application (2009) Research in Science and Engineering (RISE)
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Center for Science and Mathematics Education, Stony Brook, NY - co-op (2009) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Scholars Program - participating researchers include those in Biomedical Engineering

Syracuse University, Central New York - Puerto Rico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Syracuse, NY - co-op (2009) "research in any of the following disciplines: Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University, Michael E. DeBakey Institute, College Station, TX - co-op (2008) All positions are currently filled for this summer (2007) , please check back next spring (2008) - Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Mechanobiology of the Bat Wing Microvasculature - more details here - "investigate novel scientific questions concerning microvascular physiology and bioengineering"

Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson College of Graduate Studies, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2009) Research program options include Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine

Tulane University, The Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation, New Orleans, LA - co-op (2009) "Areas of research: ...Biomedical Engineering"
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Physics, Birmingham, AL - co-op (2009) Available Projects include Materials for Biomedical Implants and Self Assembly of Materials for Tissue Engineering

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - co-op (some 2008 information) (2009) Date of Appointment is June 8-July 31, 2009 - "offers summer undergraduate research in the departments of: Bioengineering, ..." University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - co-op (2009) Amgen Scholars Program - Bioengineering is one Faculty Research Area/InterestUniversity of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA - co-op (2008) REU program in Bioanalytical Science

University of California at Riverside, College of Engineering, Riverside, CA - co-op (2009) University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA - co-op (2009) Amgen Scholars Program - Previous Amgen Faculty Mentors and their area(s) of research included Bioengineering

University of California, Irvine, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Irvine, CA - co-op (2009) "We will post information about future offerings in February 2009." - Integrated Micro/Nano Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - "fields of biomedical, physical, and engineering micro/nano-sciences"

University of Cincinnati, Women in Science and Engineering Program, Cincinnati, OH - co-op (2009)

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - co-op (2008) Environmental Fluids: Science, Assessment and Treatment - "Students majoring in Biological Engineering; and Environmental Science" University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - co-op (2009) "Application materials must be postmarked no later than February 16, 2009" - Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training - Academic areas include Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Colorado, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Boulder, CO - co-op (2009) Functional Materials Science and Engineering

University of Connecticut Health Center, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, Farmington, CT - co-op (2009) scroll down to Summer Undergraduate Research Internships in Quantitative Cell

of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX - co-op (2009) one sample project was "Polymer Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications"

University of Illinois at Chicago, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Chicago, IL - co-op (2009) Novel Materials and Processing in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

University of Kansas, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Lawrence, KS - co-op (2009) several projects focus on topics related to biomedical engineering

University of Kentucky, Center of Membrane Sciences, Lexington, KY - co-op (2009) Undergraduate Research Experiences in Functional Materials

University of Maryland, Department of Bioengineering, College Park, MD - co-op (2009) - Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program

University of Maryland, The Institute for Systems Research, College Park, MD - co-op, application (2009)

University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Institute for Cellular Engineering, Amherst, MA - co-op (2009)

University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - co-op, application process (2009) includes tissue engineering

University of Minnesota, Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - co-op (2009) University of New Mexico, Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, Albuquerque, NM - co-op (2009)

University of Notre Dame, Center for Nano Science and Technology , South Bend, IN - co-op (2008) "projects are designed for students in engineering disciplines (bioengineering, ...) "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2009) Several projects are related to Biomedical Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Nano/Bio Interface Center, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2009) University of Pittsburgh, Department of Bioengineering, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2008)University of Pittsburgh, Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2009) Two REU programs - American Student Placements in Rehabilitation Engineering (ASPIRE) and Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2009) An NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute program

University of Rochester, Center for Visual Science, Rochester, NY - co-op (2009)

University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, CA - co-op (2008) several Faculty Projects related to biomedical engineering

University of Washington, Seattle, WA - co-op (2009) Amgen Scholars Summer Program - 2009 Amgen Faculty include three in Bioengineering

University of Washington, Engineered Biomaterials, Seattle, WA - co-op (2009) "interdisciplinary research environment at the biology and engineering interface"

University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Madison, WI - co-op (2009) "Students may request projects in the following College of Engineering departments/programs - Biomedical Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Synchrotron Radiation Center, Madison, WI - co-op (2009) Synchrotron Radiation Center Research Experience for Undergraduates - "interested in a research project related ...biosciences..." US Food & Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Rockville, MD - co-op, application (2009) Medical Device Fellowship Program
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN - co-op (2009) CHECK BACK for 2009 - Bioengineering Education Technologies

Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Richmond, VA - co-op (2009) Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA - co-op (2009) Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Biological Systems EngineeringVirginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Blacksburg, VA - co-op (2009) Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute - "select students will also have the opportunity to continue their research efforts at their home institution and come back for a 2nd summer research experience"
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC - co-op (2009) Summer Scholars ProgramWake Forest University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC - co-op (2009) Summer Research Opportunities Program in the Biomedical Sciences -"include many outstanding faculty members from the following departments of the medical school: biomedical engineering"

Wayne State University, Smart Systems and Integrated Microsystems, Detroit, MI - co-op, application (2009) includes projects in Biomedical Microsystems

West Virginia University, WVNano Initiative, Morgantown, WV - co-op (2009) "Who Should Apply? - Undergraduates who have finished their Freshman, Sophomore or Junior years with interests in engineering...biology.