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LIFT Announces Internship Program to Provide College Students Hands-On Experience In Lightweight Manufacturing

Education, Manufacturing, Materials, Workforce

Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow (LIFT) announces a new internship program for local college students, providing them with real-world, hands-on experience in the cutting edge advanced manufacturing industry.

Mentoring session with a student.

Students participating in LIFT’s internship program will be mentored by in-house LIFT engineers.

The internship program is designed for three levels of students – initially undergraduate juniors and seniors in phase one and then first year graduate students in phase two.

In the first phase of the program, January 2018 through April 2018, LIFT will provide paid internships to selected undergraduate students from the University of Michigan and Wayne State who will spend up to 25 hours a week for a 16-week hands-on research experience at the new LIFT lightweighting research and development facility in Detroit.

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