Beyond The Books & Projects: Internships

SLIS Chart your own course

Take charge of your future

As an MIS student you’ll be active in shaping your own education by teaming with faculty, working with your peers on projects, and connecting with employers via practica and internships.

SLIS usually maintains about 300 leads for internships.

More than 100 SLIS students have spent time on the job this year in tasks ranging from testing palm computing devices, designing business web-sites, usability testing of software interfaces at Microsoft, to conducting information searches at Dow Chemical and Rolls Royce Corp.

Internships such as these are the best way to gain experience, make contacts in the field, and apply skills learned in the classroom to real world situations, according to many of the students participating in these for-credit internships each year.

Some students devote summers to internships rather than balance them with other regular semester classes.

An MIS intern spent last summer at DowChemical, working in an information analyst group that investigates using text-mining software as a way to lessen the "information overload," providing faster analysis to clients.

The analysts were looking for ways to sift through and to reduce the number of documents within an electronic database to a manageable number without losing relevant documents. The project required working on customizing a specific text-mining software package to suit the information analysts' needs.

Each SLIS internship project provides valuable work experience to add to a growing résumé. Representative internships include:

• IBM human factors intern in a user-centered design group.

• Intern to plan and assist in focus group research, data entry and analysis, and electronic publication design.

• Database administration support intern.

• Web development, HCI design and testing, and Systems Testing functions for distance learning applications.

• Network management intern assists users and installs, manages, maintains information systems.

• Development and testing of interactive training CDs for the publishing industry

contact SLIS:

812.855.2018 or 888.335.7547

mis@indiana.edu

learn more at:

http://www.mis.indiana.edu

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