CAMPUS JOBS, REUs, CO-OPs, INTERNSHIPS and JOBS

CAMPUS JOBS

	Opportunities for Appalachain State University Physics and Astronopmy
Majors to work during the period they are students on campus can be funded by WORK 
STUDY or UNIVERSITY funds. See the  Major's Handbook.


	Opportunities for off campus research/job experiences can be as an Research 
Experience for Undergraduates (REU), coop,or as an internship student. 

REUs
	
	Several Physics and Astronomy students have participated in REU programs
at National Laboratories, such as NIST, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National 
Radio Astronomical Observatory, and NRL. Others have attended programs at Lowell
Observatory, Florida Institute of Technology, CREEL at University of Central 
Florida. See Dr. Sherman about these details. You can check out her web site for 
REU Summer Internship Opportunties.
 
Details of some of these experiences will be given at the Symposium of Summer 
Student Research on Wednesday 5 November at 5:00 PM in CAP 150.
 
CO-OPs 
	Co-ops are cooperative education/work experiences with companies/laboratories 
which usually hire scientists and engineers. The student is eligible if they have been 
in physics and math courses for two years. (That is, students should have completed 
Intermediate Physics, Differential Equations and have a GPA about 3.0 on a 4.0 system.

The student usually works for one semester and then returns to college the next.
Some firms allow this to be done during the summer months. During the first work
period the student signs up for the COOP course, CEP 1000.

In cases where courses are not taught each semester, cooping will dramatically 
increase the time for the student to complete their degree program, unless it is done 
during the summer. 

Students who find companies to coop with should talk with their advisor before 
entering a coop program. Usually students are limited to about 2.5 to 3.0 years
of work with the company before finishing their bachelor's degree. 
      

INTERNSHIPS

	Internships are normally found by the student. Once obtained see Dr. Calamai 
about the details for signing up for the internship course. 


JOBS	
      From time to time internship opportunties or jobs  are received and will be 
placed on this homepage.

							Revised 11-01-04