Graduate Fellows and undergraduate interns are available to VCET portfolio firms throughout the year. Talented men and women from diverse business, engineering, computer science and life sciences backgrounds work in your company on a variety of value-adding tasks and projects. It's a win-win situation and part of the VCET advantage for emerging companies.
Graduate Fellowships
VCET Fellowships, funded by Vermont EPSCoR, was launched in 2005 in conjunction with the UVM School of Business Administration’s MBA program and has since expanded to include the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. The fellowship provides funding for graduate students to work with VCET’s clients, helping them establish solid business plans, write software code, design products and aiding them in other various aspects of their development. The VCET fellowship provides an opportunity for graduate students to apply knowledge and skills acquired through their course of study in a “hands on” way with real businesses.
If you are interested in being a UVM Graduate Fellow, please contact us.
Internships for Undergraduates
Pulling from our 9 university and college partners primarily but also from schools across the nation, VCET actively sources and places top undergraduate students with portfolio firms. These can be both paid and unpaid for-credit internships, as well as, summer internship programs. VCET staff can work with your school or faculty adviser in designing a value-adding, life enhancing entrepreneurial experience as a VCET intern.
Please contact us to learn more if you are interested in an internship.
Current Fellows include:
Jeremy Fortune
EPSCoR Fellow
Jeremy Fortune is an MBA student at the University of Vermont working with VCET through the University of Vermont’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). He graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and minors in Computer Science and Philosophy. With experience in manufacturing and university research, Jeremy aids various VCET clients by facilitating their everyday needs and working with them on long term projects. He is currently helping clients to establish a web server, compile market research, design manufacturing processes, integrate MRP systems, introduce a human resources package, and manufacture.
Zhao Li
EPSCoR Fellow
Zhao Li, a graduate student in the computer science department at the University of Vermont, has been supported by a fellowship program called the Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) since Jan, 2009. His interests lie in data mining, web information retrieval, database design, and software development. He works in the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) to provide clients with possible solutions to their applications, including conceptual planning, computational supporting, software development, etc.