As of October 1, 2016, the SWUTC concluded its 28 years of operation and is no longer an active center of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. The archived SWUTC website remains available here.

TxDOT Undergraduate Internship Program

The TxDOT Undergraduate Internship Program is a paid internship for two undergraduate engineering or planning students with an interest in transportation research.  This is a full-time (40 hours/week) summer internship from May 20 to August 16, 2013.  Interns will earn $10-15/per hour based on class status.  Interns will be mentored by senior transportation professionals as they participate on sponsored research efforts in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Austin office.  Interns will also spend a day or two each week at TxDOT headquarters and gain a behind-the-scene look into the operations of a major state agency.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or eligible to be employed in the U.S.
  2. Applicants must be Texas A&M University undergraduate students enrolled for the fall 2013 semester.
  3. Applicants must be available and able to participate through the duration of the program.  Start and end dates may be flexible.
  4. Applicants must be willing to work in Austin, Texas for the duration of the program.
  5. Applicants must submit a completed application and supporting documentation by 5:00 p.m. Central time, April 30, 2013.

Application Form
Submit application to:
Barbara Lorenz
[email protected]

Applicants will be notified of their status via email no later than May 6th.  Students selected to participate will have 3 business days to reply by e-mail to the offer before the offer may be made to other qualified applicants.

For more information on this program, please contact Barbara Lorenz via email (above) or at (979)845-8861.

This program is sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation in partnership with the Southwest Region University Transportation Center.