Please see links below for information about 12 month internships (placements), as well as 10 week internships and a student competition (IT Business Challenge).
Telensa – Placements
Telensa has a number of great opportunities for Interns who are currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or an equivalent subject. Students can use their work experience at Telensa to gain practical knowledge in their chosen field and put theory into practice. It will give them an inside look at what it’s like to work for a successful “Internet of Things” technology company with an insight into its technical teams, work style and culture.
To apply, follow the link below.
Source: Telensa – Smart city IoT powered by connected street lighting
Interested in an internship or placement abroad?
Fancy earning money, travelling AND kick-starting your career?
Managed by the British Council in the UK, IAESTE offers work placements specifically for UK resident science, engineering and technology students. Applications for industry placements starting in summer 2018 are now Open!
With IAESTE, you can do a paid industry placement lasting from 6 to 52 weeks in one of 80 countries worldwide. Placements are also available in the UK for international students.
Visit ‘Global Work Experience’ on the Careers Service website for further details of this and other organisations offering paid and unpaid placements for students and graduates around the world.
Pfizer UK Industrial Trainee Scheme 2017/2018: Information Technology (IT) Undergraduate
We are Pfizer, one of the world’s premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 200 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products that help save and transform the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.
To apply visit: undergraduateprogramme.pfizercareersuk.com
About the Business Technology
The role will be in our Business Technology (BT) team, with the mission to be the best information technology (IT) organisation in healthcare, and be respected as a world leader in delivering business value through technology.
Business Technology is structured into two key areas:
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AkzoNobel, Gateshead: 12 month placement
Please see details below of a 12 month placement offered at AkzoNobel Performance Coatings, Gateshead. To apply please send CV and covering letter to Richard Ramsden (contact details below).
Background
We coat surfaces which are exposed to the elements for large amount of time in challenging environments – Singapore, China, Korea etc. We then overcoat these surfaces with fresh coatings to provide protection (e.g. anticorrosion). One of the major problems with this is that the adhesion of fresh paint can fail, if the underlying surface chemistry has changed (i.e. weathered). In order to understand this, one of my colleagues embarked on a really ambitious program of coating panels in multiple locations around the world, measuring the surfaces with a hand-held FTIR spectrometer, overcoating the surfaces and then testing the adhesion.
The upshot of this is a large set of data which shows the degradation of the surface in a range of environments and how overcoating is affected. The problem here is that we don’t have the skills to be able to fully exploit this.
The plan
1. We have a large bunch of Excel/CSV files which contain FTIR spectra of all the surfaces. We need to pull all these together into a database. This is complex as it has a temporal element (each panel was measured multiple times),
2. This database can be interrogated, models build to express the degradation of surfaces over time, and resulting adhesion pass/fail. These models may include top coat, bottom coat, length of exposure, IR spectra trace, location etc.
3. Build a proof-of-concept system which can ingest new spectra (with some associated data), append it to the database and provide a prediction on overcoating time.
4. If time allows: pulling local environmental conditions into modelling. We measure a large range of environmental data at each of our sites (wind, rain, temperature humidity etc.) which may go some way to improving models.
Ultimately I can see this as being part of a real service we can offer to customers – namely, we scan a series of surfaces and recommend products or overcoating schedules based on their degradation.
Richard Ramsden
Section Leader Functional Surfaces
Performance Coatings Research
T +44 (0) 191 401 2455
F +44 (0) 191 438 3208
E richard.ramsden@akzonobel.com
AkzoNobel Performance Coatings
www.akzonobel.com