Internships are typically secured at either the Fall Career Expo or Spring Career Connections events, though students are encouraged to send their resumes to any of the companies listed on this website or in response to a posted advertisement to fill a position. CHME will post any information receive concerning employment and/or internships on this site.
CHME 391 – Industrial Employment
CHME 391 is a Chemical Engineering Elective that can be taken as a 1- or 2-credit hour class while you are away from campus on a co-op or internship work assignment.
During the semester which you are interning with an engineering employer, you may enroll (subject to department head approval) in a total of 3 credit hours (over two work sessions) of CHME 391 to fulfill one of the Chemical Engineering elective requirements of the BSCHE.
If you enroll in this course, your requirement for grade at the conclusion of the semester will be to prepare a written summary of your internship experience, detailing your assignments and outcomes during the period of employment, and to complete an exit interview with the department head (telephone interview can be arranged if you cannot not return to campus before final grades are due).
See the syllabus for this course on the CHME website.
Student Responsibilities when leaving for a Co-op/Internship:
- Report your internship to Career Services:
https://oel.nmsu.edu/cooperative-education-internship-program/ - Report your internship to NMSU Scholarship Office or your Financial Aid Advisor.
- Complete the CHME Internship Survey described below
Internship Survey
In May 2014, a company just north of Austin, Texas wishing to hire a CHME student for an internship asked the CHME department head what a competitive hourly wage for a CHME intern/co-op would be. He did not know and decided that should be corrected (with the help of NMSU CHME interns and co-ops).
Your name is requested in the surgery in the event the CHME Department Head wishes to follow-up on some of your input, but your data will not be associated with your name in any public forum.CHME created a survey to collect data about CHME internship pay rates. Survey averages will be posted here so CHME students know how the pay rate they’ve been offered measures up with others.
Your honest input is an essential part of the continuous improvement program of the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering.
| 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| responses | 23 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 12 |
| max rate ($/hr) | 43 | 42 | 30 | 41 | 42.60 | 40.00 |
| avg rate ($/hr) | 24.78 | 31.22 | 22.48 | 28.60 | 23.44 | 27.15 |
| min rate ($/hr) | 10 | 21.10 | 10 | 18 | 12.50 | 10.00 |
| Companies | University of California Berkeley Amgen Scholars Program Sandia National Laboratories Glanbia Nutritionals Purdue University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship ExxonMobil Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Massachusetts Institute of Technology New Mexico State University-NM AMP SUMMER URS in Dr. Holguin Lab Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kimberly-Clark Corporation Brandeis University CISTAR REU Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resoruces Jabil ExxonMobil SolAero Technologies Corp. NASA ExxonMobil Intel Corp. Ethicon JnJ / Jabil Healthcare HollyFrontier Intel Corporation |
Ethicon Johnson & Johnson ExxonMobil Chemical Company Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ExxonMobil Reasearch and Engineering |
Sandia National Laboratories Los Alamos National Lab New Mexico Department of Agriculture Petroleum lab HollyFrontier Navajo Refinery Western Refining AECOM RTI Surgical Raytheon Booz Allen Hamilton |
Ethicon ExxonMobil (2) Intel Corporation Giner.Inc Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (2) Mosaic Entegris Archer Daniels Midland Los Alamos National Laboratory Freeport-McMoRan Inc. |
Intel Corporation Cummins, Inc. ExxonMobil Jacob's Technology U of MN MRSEC Freeport McMoRan Southwest Cheese Los Alamos National Laboratory Dow Chemical Company |
Dow Chemical Southwest Cheese Department of Energy ExxonMobil (3) Ethicon Endo-Surgery Yates Petroleum Corporation ChevronPhillips Chemical Company Sapphire Energy Mount Franklin Foods URENCO USA |
Roughly half of students reported indicated they received paid or greatly reduced living expenses as well as travel/relocation reimbursement.
