District of Columbia’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) Research Internship Program engages full-time students to work on specific research topics around the agency. The internship program allows DDOT to conduct research into topics of interest while also serving as a resource for students to acquire practical skills. The Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC) recruits the interns and manages the program on DDOT’s behalf.

Applications accepted through March 24th, 2017. To apply: Go to https://www.hutrc.org/internships and follow the instructions on the website.

The program is open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students in good academic standing from the DC region and nationwide. The summer internship program is scheduled to run for at least 10 weeks starting on Monday, June 5. The internships will be located at DDOT’s offices, 55 M Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. These are hourly, paid positions with a maximum of 40 hours a week with no paid holidays, no paid sick leave, and no overtime. All students are required to have basic computer skills, and basic knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.2017 Projects:

1. Library Intern
2. Human Resources Business Partnering Intern
3. Civil Engineering Design Scope and Cost Estimation Intern
4. Green Infrastructure Research for DDOT Construction Projects Intern
5. Data Consolidation, Processing, and Visualization for ITS Asset Management and Traffic Operations Intern
6. Traffic and Crash Data Analyst /Vision Zero Intern
7. Performance Management Dashboards Intern
8. Active Transportation Intern
9. Smart Cities and District Mobility Intern
10. Transit Projects Intern [2 positions available]
11. Curbside Operations Data Intern [2 positions available] *one of these starts immediately

More details on the positions are in the position descriptions available on the website.