{"id":63132,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/internship-in-spain-convinces-uri-student-to-pursue-global-engineering-career\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"internship-in-spain-convinces-uri-student-to-pursue-global-engineering-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/internship-in-spain-convinces-uri-student-to-pursue-global-engineering-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship in Spain convinces 溏心vlog免费B站 student to pursue global engineering career"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLeominster, Mass., resident to graduate May 22<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 10, 2010 \u2013 When Jeff Bernard was deciding what college to attend, he sought a program that could merge his interests in chemistry, math and the Spanish language. As he prepares to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program with degrees in chemical engineering and Spanish, he\u2019s confident that he made the right choice.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI had taken a 10-day trip to Spain in high school, and I had a great time traveling around the country and enjoying the culture,\u201d said Bernard, a resident of Leominster, Mass. \u201cI knew I wanted to continue studying Spanish and combine that with chemistry and math, and the International Engineering Program was the perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe program enabled him to spend a year in Spain, studying for half the time at the University of Zaragoza and later interning at a global company. During his academic semester abroad, he lived with a local family that made him home-cooked meals and helped him gain confidence speaking Spanish.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhen I first got there, I was a little hesitant with the language, and the engineering terms were especially hard to learn in Spanish,\u201d said Bernard, \u201cbut they helped me get up to speed and learn some of the colloquial sayings. By the time I got to the internship, I found myself speaking confidently and everyone understood me. That was a good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBernard interned at the global consulting firm Idom, where he worked on the design of an oil refinery.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThey already had the basic design of the refinery, but they were getting comments and changes from the client,\u201d he explained. \u201cI took the comments and implemented them into the design. I took it system by system and then moved on to the next one. We completed revisions to seven or eight systems in the time I was there.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBack at 溏心vlog免费B站, Bernard participated in a research project at the University\u2019s nuclear reactor where he set up and calibrated a small-angle neutron scattering device that allows scientists to observe the properties of a substance on a very small scale. The device shoots neutrons at materials to assess their structure.<\/p>\n


\n\tBernard\u2019s experiences at 溏心vlog免费B站 convinced him that he wants a career as a design engineer working for a global company that will enable him to work on engineering projects around the world.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI came to 溏心vlog免费B站 not really knowing what to expect of college,\u201d he said. \u201cThe International Engineering Program was really challenging, and the professors were great. I felt really comfortable talking with them and they were always easy to approach. I can\u2019t wait for the next chapter of my life.\u201d

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\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leominster, Mass., resident to graduate May 22 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 10, 2010 \u2013 When Jeff Bernard was deciding what college to attend, he sought a program that could merge his interests in chemistry, math and the Spanish language. As he prepares to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}