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Apply today for Google's Engineering Practicum Internship Program
September 14, 2012
Introduction: Over the summer we host a variety of
programs
and internships for
technical
and
non-technical
students. We’re relaunching the
My Summer @ Google
series to give you an inside look at each of these programs, hearing from the students themselves who participated. Today Jeanette Miranda, a current computer engineering student at Brown University, recaps Google’s
Engineering Practicum
internship program. Engineering Practicum is a summer internship for rising juniors that provides skills-based training, mentoring and professional development. Applications for Engineering Practicum are available
here
and the deadline to apply is October 15, 2012.
Being a technical intern at Google is truly a unique experience. For the summer, you are an engineer at Google. You are responsible for your project, and expected to complete it at a caliber appropriate for Google. You are going to learn, learn, and just when you thought you had begun to master something -- learn some more. It is an incredible, challenging, and engaging experience.
For me, being in Engineering Practicum was just as challenging, and even more incredible and engaging. I had first heard about Engineering Practicum through an email my school’s computer science department sent out with opportunities in industry. On a whim, I decided to apply - why not? It was early in the year and it was a chance to work at Google. Little did I know what an amazing program I had stumbled upon.
The Engineering Practicum internship is a 12-week program specifically designed to support the development of young computer scientists and to encourage diversity within the field of computer science. You are still a technical intern - but with the added support of being in a pod of two to three interns, a great series of lectures to address the difference between coding for a university class and for production, and social events for a close-knit, smaller group of interns who are also rising juniors.
This past summer, Engineering Practicum brought nearly 100 rising juniors to four different offices around the country for a summer of coding, learning and fun. The projects covered topics from Google+ to Maps to backend tools for developers and more. My project for the summer was developing and implementing an algorithm to turn video footage into motion thumbnails. Imagine taking a video of a pitcher throwing a baseball, and creating a single image with the pitcher captured at multiple stages of throwing the baseball. Over the course of the summer I worked on developing this algorithm, and testing it on a variety of different footage. In the last week, I wrapped up the project by giving a presentation to my team.
But for me, Engineering Practicum was about more than just my project - it was about having the experience of Google's engineers accessible to you as an undergraduate who had only completed two years of college-level computer science. This was shown in everything from the pod structure with two hosts for the summer, to having a mentor, to weekly lectures by engineers on everything from designing services meant to run around the globe, to testing production code. It was also a great opportunity to meet students from universities all around the country who not only pursue the same course of study as you, but also share your interests.
Together, all of this created an amazing summer experience. From getting to know my hosts, podmate and mentor, to submitting code to the code base, to figuring out how to tackle challenging technical problems on my own, to spending time with other interns - I felt I was exposed to the different sides of working at Google. I'm returning to school a more experienced programmer and a more independent learner, eager to study the many new areas within computer science and engineering that I have discovered.
Interested in Engineering Practicum?
Apply today!
Applications are due by October 15, 2012.
Posted by Jeanette Miranda, Engineering Practicum intern
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