I had the opportunity spend my summer at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Munich. Having spent an exciting second year summer working with high intensity lasers at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, I was eager to explore the field and also get an exposure to how research was being done in other parts of the world. When it comes to being at the forefront scientific   Read More ...

After a busy summer of 2010, I never intended to apply for an internship in my fourth year, and was planning to spend the two months resting back at my home. However you can never fathom the direction life intends to take. In the final days of February 2011, I received a mail from a Research Stream Leader at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, in reply to a   Read More ...

Husk Power System is a social startup which aims to provide electricity to rural India. It utilizes rice husk which is available in ample amounts from the cultivation of rice in Bihar.The process starts with gasification of husk to form producer gas which is fed into a gas engine coupled with an alternator to generate electricity. The electricity is fed into the mini grids which cover about 2-3 villages for   Read More ...

The Selection Process: One of the most eagerly awaited firms on campus each year, the prestigious Deutsche Bank’s summer internships are also among the most fiercely contested. Open to all students irrespective of specialization, the first stage of short-listing involves a short written test based mostly on quantitative ability. Preparation for this isn’t particularly necessary, but questions from TIME’s CAT coaching material should give you a general idea of what   Read More ...

How: My internship was a research based one. Research-based internships are funded by some Universitiy or Research Institute. I started mailing early, way earlier than usual. I was desperate for an FT, and was ready to send as many mails as necessary. Imagine my delight when I got a positive reply to just the 15th mail. The more unfortunate guys need to send an order or two more. After a   Read More ...

Qualcomm is one of the first companies related to core Electronics to come to the campus, so most of the guys apply for it. As for the selection process, first they have an online test. They ask questions related to basic C programming, basic Electronics and some analytical stuff. After that, an interview is conducted in 2- parts technical and HR. They normally consider EC guys for communication only (Hyderabad Branch) so if   Read More ...

When you don’t expect things to happen, they happen. And, they happen to an extent that  you end with an Internship at world’s largest refinery complex, Reliance Industries Limited at Jamnagar in Gujarat. The selection criteria adopted by Reliance was absurd and it didnt require much effort other than mailing my CV,to get through. The best part of my internship was the accomodation i have been provided with and the   Read More ...

Summer internship is a highly revered term within IIT circles, a reverberating buzz that kick starts what is widely considered a career defining step towards one’s favored profile. After a memorable academic research experience in Canada as part of the MITACS Globalink program last year, this time round I aimed towards an internship in the computational finance domain, with a right mix of rigor in academic theory and practical applications   Read More ...

I did my summer intern as a project trainee in Tata Research, Development and Design Centre (TRDDC), Pune. It is a lesser known R and D venture of the Tatas where research activities are carried out in the fields of computer science and process engineering. I personally was a part of its process engineering lab. My work in informal terms translates to formulation of an alternative model for an industrial   Read More ...

My internship with Qualcomm Bangalore in many ways belied the traditional notions generally associated with a purely technical internship. I mean considering the cold pre placement talk and the three stage selection process comprising an online test and two interviews one clearly thought that the summers would not turn out to be as great as they did. However I really needed to live the internship to decipher the truth. Qualcomm   Read More ...