Contents

Scholarships and Prizes

Research and Internship Opportunities

Careers

Graduate School

Study Abroad

    

Scholarships and Prizes

Each year, the AMEP Leadership Prize is awarded to “Outstanding student(s) pursing a degree in AMEP” with “demonstrated leadership and a solid academic record.” The award includes a prize of $500 or $1,000.

AMEP students with distinguished academic records may compete for university-wide and national-level scholarships. To learn more about such opportunities, explore the

Comprehensive Guide to Scholarships Available to UW-Madison Students.

Research and Internship Opportunities

As an undergraduate in AMEP you should try to participate in the many undergraduate research activities available at UW-Madison and at other universities.

UW-Madison Opportunities

These research opportunities are ongoing, usually both during the semester and the summer. The best way to approach this is to talk directly to the professors who you think you may want to work with. They may have some ongoing activity that you can join, they may want to start a collaboration with you or they can point you in another direction.

Usually, you can get paid for Undergraduate Research work. Some options are listed below:

1.    The faculty has an external grant from which they can pay you.

2.    The department has funds. For example, the VIGRE undergraduate research scholars

       program in the Mathematics Department.

3.    There are university sponsored awards such as the Hilldale and Holstrom Fellowships.

Careers

Employment opportunities for AMEP graduates are excellent in industrial research and development programs, especially in the advanced technology industries. Governmental laboratories also have many interesting and challenging opportunities for graduates of this program. The wide variety of fundamental problems encountered in these programs require versatile individuals with a broad background in math, physics, and other scientific disciplines, who have had some experience with engineering analysis and experimental methods. Individuals with this background are able to contribute significantly to programs requiring both scientists and engineers to work together cooperatively toward a common goal.

AMEP students are welcome to interview with industry and governmental agencies through the College of Engineering’s office of Engineering Career Services. Students must register with this office and provide them with the necessary information regarding their professional interests and qualifications. Then the student is allowed to sign up for interviews with any industry or agency that has expressed interest in AMEP students. Even if a particular company has not expressed interest in interviewing AMEP students, the student may make a special request for an interview with the company. In the experience of AMEP alumni, employers are eager to interview students with such excellent qualifications in math, engineering, and the sciences. However, the AMEP student must recognize that this degree is not as well known by interviewers and thus may have to be more proactive in seeking interviews.

Examples of companies and government employers who have pursued AMEP graduates are:

    Lockheed Martin

    General Electric Aviation

    US Patent and Trademark Office

    Cisco Systems

    Pratt & Whitney / United Technologies Corp.

Graduate School

Graduate programs that have recently admitted AMEP students include:

    Department of Mathematics -- MIT

    Department of Mathematics -- Courant Institute, NYU

    Department of Applied Mathematics -- University of Colorado, Boulder

    Department of Medical Physics -- University of Chicago

    Department of Medical Physics -- UW-Madison

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering -- Northwestern University

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering -- UW-Madison

Your advisors are you best resources for questions about graduate school.

Study Abroad

Despite the demands the program imposes on its students, AMEP students have enjoyed studying abroad in places such as Istanbul, Turkey and Cairo, Egypt. You can even take courses abroad that count towards your AMEP degree requirements! Check out the website for UW-Madison’s International Academic Programs office for study abroad information and resources.