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BPA Tribal Student Scholarships and Summer Internships
BPA interacts with Northwest Tribes, to meet our power, transmission, and fish and wildlife trust responsibilities under the Northwest Power Act and other federal mandates and actively looks for educational employment opportunities for tribal students. There are several exciting opportunities available to tribal students right now.
2011 AISES Summer Internship Program
Bonneville Power Administration internship position are being offered through the AISES BPA Summer Internship Program ONLY HERE. Will you define the future of energy?
Environment Fish and Wildlife organization
Like to work outdoors? Interested in rebuilding of sustainable salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest? The AISES student will work with one of the tribes that will provide hands-on experience in tributaries of the Columbia River on or near their reservations. Your tribal mentors will work with you to understand the spiritual and cultural importance of salmon to its tribe, the strong comanagement responsibilities the tribes share with state agencies, and provide integral involvement in performing work to support the return of salmon to their native waters. Activities could include fish hatchery operations; riparian habitat enhancement; and conducting field sampling to support research and monitoring of tribal efforts. An orientation to the these fish mitigation efforts, which BPA funds, will provide a week-long introduction, before you are whisked away to your 2-month field adventure.
Transmission Services organization:
The student would join the Bonneville Power Administration Transmission Services Organization and be assigned to an engineering group. These groups are responsible for the planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance of BPA's 15,000 miles of high voltage transmission. The assignment would be similar to an assignment given to one of the existing Transmission STEP/SCEP students - Placed with an engineering mentor working on an engineering project. The student will be responsible for contributing to the team to deliver an engineering need/product. The AISES student will be doing engineering work, in an engineering environment, with a measurable product as the end-goal. Assignment possibilities include a variety of electrical/electronic disciplines (design, high voltage equipment, transmission planning, field maintenance, field testing, construction, transmission operations, communications, control systems, system modeling, etc.). Seeking student pursuing Academic program in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
How to Apply Go to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) website to fill out an internship application. Deadline is February 15, 2011 .
More Information
For more information about the program contact Buzz Cobell at 503-230-5069 or email glcobell@bpa.gov.
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Tribal Electric Utility
Systems Training
Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 2011
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Tribal Affairs