2024 Engineering Summer Internship

Overview

Electric Boat offers an excellent learning environment and real life experience for college students. We have a team of skilled engineers that help mentor our interns while executing contracts with the Navy and taking submarine technology to the next level. To name a couple projects, we are completing the design of the Columbia Class as we embark on lead ship construction (considered the top priority in the Navy), and are continuing Virginia Class construction support and design of upgrades such as the Virginia Payload Module and associated payload integration. The Engineering interns are provided with tasks that are both technically challenging and educationally stimulating. With the guidance of Electric Boat's senior staff, the interns will support calculations, design development, shipyard problem resolution and other various technical activities. An intern at Electric Boat gets an introduction to these complex products which, for those who have a passion for this type of problem solving, can lead to the opportunity to join the engineering staff of the future.

Our Engineers take pride in the support they provide to protect our nation and our world in the design, engineering, build and delivery of world-class submarines.  Imagine working side by side with some of the top talent in our industry as mentors while applying classroom learning in the workplace. 

As an intern you will typically work as part of a team in a specific engineering discipline while being mentored by one or more full-time engineers. Applicants should be able to communicate well, both orally and in writing.

Engineering Interns at Electric Boat interface with designers, other engineering disciplines, service departments, shipyard personnel and our Navy customers. Using a design-build approach and working in a team environment, engineers develop innovative solutions to solve design development, new construction, and in-service problems on US Navy nuclear submarines. Being accepted into the Electric Boat internship means getting a mentor the first day you start that will guide you for the duration of your time here.  This is the opportunity to kick start your career and gain engineering work experience in one of a variety of areas, including:

• Platform Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Ship Signatures
• Naval Architecture (Hydrodynamics, Hydrostatics, & Weights)
• Fluid Systems (Air, Water, Hydraulic, HVAC, etc.)
• Combat Systems Engineering
• Construction Support Engineering
• Test Engineering
• Propulsion Plant Structures, Shielding & Arrangements
• Propulsion Plant Fluid Systems
• Propulsion Plant Electrical
• Main Propulsion Machinery
• Hull and External Structures
• Internal Structures
• Life Cycle Engineering
• Pipe Stress Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Shielding Analysis
• Solid Mechanics

Please note you may be assigned to work at any of the following locations: North Kingstown RI, Groton CT, North Stonington CT, New London, CT, and you will need reliable transportation and housing for the duration of your intern assignment. 

Qualifications

To be qualified for this position:

• You must be a US Citizen and 18 years of age or older.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• At minimum students must have completed their Freshman year prior to the start of the internship.
• Students must be going into their Sophomore, Junior or Senior year of College as of May 2024.
• Must be available to work 40 hours per week for a minimum eight (8) consecutive weeks between May 2024 to September 2024.
• You must be pursuing a degree in an engineering discipline or relevant STEM program at a college or university.

Skills

To succeed in an engineering internship at Electric Boat you must:

- Be able to quickly learn and adapt to a fast-paced environment

- Be analytical and detail oriented

- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Have an ability to work independently as well as a within a team

- Be a motivated, self-starter

- Have a reliable means of transportation and secure housing to work in any of the above listed locations, for the duration of your intern assignment.