Internships and Other Opportunities for Applied Research Experience

Field Research Experience: Students in the I/O program are required to complete an approved Field Research Experience as part of their training. Students successfully compete for full-time off-campus internships and other opportunities for field research experience in a variety of organizational settings. A sampling of organizations that have hosted internships fulfilling the field research requirement includes: Aon Consulting, Cablevision, Compaq Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Home Depot, IBM International, NASA, PepsiCo, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, U.S. West, and the Volpe National Transportation Research Center.

Industrial Psychology Applications Center: The Industrial Psychology Applications Center (IPAC) is a non-profit applied research center that offers a wide range of professional services to organizations. IPAC projects are staffed by faculty and doctoral students in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program. By establishing partnerships with public-and private-sector businesses, the Center provides a forum for doctoral students in industrial-organizational psychology to interact professionally with organizational representatives and apply classroom knowledge to organizational problems. Recent projects carried out by the Center include: job analysis of secretarial positions; design and administration of a large all-organization survey; workplace safety and hazard analysis.