What Your Job Will Be Like:


Join a diverse team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security! We are seeking a highly motivated student intern to join our dynamic team in the Structural Mechanics Laboratory (SML)!

On any given day, you may be called on to:

+ Perform experimental mechanics testing on quasi-static load frames with advanced diagnostic techniques to characterize materials and structures

+ Set-up, program and trouble shoot test equipment

+ Organize test data and prepare test documentation

+ Support research activities in the following areas: mechanical characterization of materials in normal and abnormal environments, mechanics of structural polymeric foams and metals, thermomechanical coupling, material model development, failure and fracture, and advanced experimental methods/diagnostic technique development

+ Rigorous implementation of work planning an...