Science and Technology Applied to Navigation Co-Op

The Navigation Research and Development Division (NRDD), part of The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at The Pennsylvania State University, located in Warminster, PA, is seeking Undergraduate and Graduate Student Co-ops to support research, development, and engineering activities.

About the role

Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) is a Department of Defense (DoD) designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), which serves as a center of research excellence in a multitude of areas. ARL conducts basic and applied research, exploratory development, and advanced development in support of the U.S. government organizations; contributes to the educational objectives and research goals of Penn State; and promotes the transfer of advanced technology to the U.S. government.

Responsibilities

• Focus on the manifestation of fundamental physical principals in navigation systems
• Connect with an experienced researcher in investigating how cross domain science/technologies can be utilized in navigation systems
• Design, modeling and analysis of navigation sensors
• Modeling of geophysical systems
• Learn or strengthen skills in applying physical principals to modeling, MATLAB/C++ programming, and computational simulation methods

Requirements

Undergraduate and Graduate students studying Physics and Mathematics are preferred. This position is well suited for those interested in novel applications of science fundamentals, computational physics, modeling and simulation.

Qualifications

Students must be available to work at the Warminster facility for a six month time period.

Skills

None specified in the job description.

Benefits

No specific benefits are mentioned in the job description.

Pay

No specific pay information is provided in the job description.

Schedule

No specific schedule information is provided in the job description.

Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants.

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