PhD Enrollment Eighteen university students from around the country worked with Lincoln Laboratory researchers this summer on a variety of engineering projects through a special program designed to nurture engineering and technical careers among underrepresented minorities. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Minority Internship Program, now in its 18th year, brings students who have completed two years of college, have excellent grades, and major in electrical engineering or physics to Lincoln and MIT for 10 weeks.
Interns receive a weekly salary and round- trip travel expenses to the Boston area.
It's a very good place to get experience you won't get anywhere else. Antonio Oliver, a junior from Tougaloo College in Mississippi, applied for the program because he was excited about working with equipment he wouldn't have an opportunity to work with at his school. Part of his assignment is writing an automated data acquisition system for laser experiments. Students in the program also get a closer look at MIT and its graduate programs. And if they are admitted to MIT after college they are eligible to receive substantial financial support for their graduate education.