The Oregon Center for Electrochemistry offers a MS internship program in which students conduct 6 months of coursework and applied laboratory work in collaboration with industry and national laboratory partners and then 9-month internships as employees of the companies. Many industry partners choose to participate in the student experiential research to train the next generations of scientists and technologists for their industries.
CH 694 (Applied Electrochemical Projects Laboratory) is offered yearly during the winter quarter (January – March). Teams of 3-4 MS students are supervised by faculty, postdocs, and/or senior Ph.D. students while conducting an independent research project with direct ties to an industry collaborator or funded academic research program.
In addition to carrying out electrochemical experiments and/or characterizing device (electrolysis, lithium-ion battery, electroplating) performances, teams have also designed and evaluated prototypes, performed numerical simulations in COMSOL, and characterized materials before and after electrochemical testing using state-of-the-art instrumentation (SEM, XPS, ICP-MS) in CAMCOR (https://camcor.uoregon.edu/).
Typically, projects are established by the fall (October-November) of the previous year with student teams selecting their projects in December. Interested parties should contact pkempler@uoregon.edu for discussions of potential projects and availability. All external collaborators and participating student researchers must sign a collaboration agreement (Center Collaboration Agreement).
Additional opportunities for collaboration are available through sponsored MS research internships at UO during the Spring and Summer quarters and through sponsorship of Ph.D. student research. Contact electrochemistry@uoregon.edu with questions.