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Undergraduate/Graduate Intern - Heliostat Optical Error Measurement Tool Development

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 13, 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Engineering
  • $42.7K - $68.3K
  • Golden

Requirements

  • Basic Qualifications:
  • Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree program, or graduated in the past 12 months from an accredited institution. Internship period cannot exceed 12 months past graduation. Minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.
  • Additional Required Qualifications:
  • Experience programming with Python and Matlab
  • Strong math and data analysis skills.
  • Ability to effectively communicate results to team members
  • Hands on design and experiment

Responsibilities

  • This heliostat consortium (HelioCon) will work closely with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and a board of advisors composed of CSP developers, component suppliers, utilities, and international experts to achieve DOE SunShot objectives for U.S.-manufactured heliostat cost, performance, and reliability. To further advance U.S. heliostat technologies, HelioCon will engage subject-matter experts and general stakeholders for direct, project-level collaboration, external consulting, and mission-specific panels or workshops. Under this consortium, graduate interns will be exposed to various research topics and opportunities to work with experts and external consortium stakeholders.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Science & Healthcare
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1977
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a Department of Energy national lab, is #TransformingEnergy as the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL's Mission: NREL develops renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices, advances related science and engineering, and transfers knowledge and innovations to address the nation's energy and environmental goals. NREL's Strategy: NREL has forged a focused strategic direction to increase its impact on the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) and our nation's energy goals by accelerating the research path from scientific innovations to market-viable alternative energy solutions.