By completing the required Applications Involvement Component (AIC), you'll be exposed to mathematics in nonacademic settings. An AIC typically has three parts:
Colloquia: You'll attend presentations by guest speakers from industry, government and education to learn how mathematics is used outside of math departments.
Internship: You'll participate in an internship in industry, government or education.
Report: You'll write a report and give a presentation about your internship experience.
Internship
AIC internships usually take place during the summer. They're arranged by our AIC director in consultation with you. The organizations at which our interns have been placed include:
Abbott Research Laboratory
Allied Signal
Ames Research Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, New Jersey)
Boeing Computer Services
Cray Research Corporation
DeKalb Genetics
General Electric
General Motors
IBM (Watson Research Center)
Motorola
NASA (Langely)
Numerical Algorithms Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United Aircraft
Wolfram Research
Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratory
For additonal information about our Ph.D. program in mathematical sciences, please contact:
Professor Sien Deng Director of Graduate Studies Mathematical Sciences Department Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115