Internship

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 As a core component of the PSM program, internships allows students to gain a meaningful, hands-on work experience. This opportunity also provides mentoring from industry leaders along with the possibility of gaining a job through this experience.

The purpose of the internship is threefold:

1. It allows the student to apply knowledge gained in their program to real-world problems in a professional setting;
2. It acquaints the student with the specialized resources of various external organizations; and
3. It assists the student in understanding the nature of employment activities in offices/agencies that employ professional mathematicians.

INTERNSHIP EXAMPLESBarrett Industries Internship

Austin Wangler created a job site prediction model which predicted if an ongoing job was going to meet the profit margin. This internship lead to Austin being offering a full time position for Barrett Industries parent company, Colas USA.

TEU Database at Buffalo State 

Zaid Newsome utilized project management principles to help organize the creation of a dashboard using AWS, Python, and Tableau to help visualize the Teach Education Unit data.

ThirdEstate Ventures

Matthew Bergey built a model to predict “zombie” houses, vacant homes where the owner is behind on their moragage payments, in the city of Buffalo using OpenData.