About the role#
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is seeking a Graduate Intern to support the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences. This year-round, on-site position focuses on database development, data processing, and dashboard creation to analyze mobility trends and the energy implications of emerging transportation technologies.
What you'll do#
- Assist researchers on projects providing insights into transportation energy systems, focusing on impacts to travel behavior, quality of life, and energy use.
- Analyze large-scale real-world travel activity and geospatial datasets.
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of population evolution and demographic microsimulation frameworks, including model design, calibration, and validation.
- Evaluate transportation accessibility outcomes alongside economic impacts to quantify tradeoffs and co-benefits of mobility systems and policy interventions.
- Generate insights from transit datasets, including General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data, to evaluate transit performance.
- Document methods and assist in the preparation of peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, and presentations.
What you'll need#
- Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a master's degree program in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field at an accredited institution.
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average.
- Experience working with quantitative data and performing statistical or analytical tasks.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or analytical tool, such as Python, R, MATLAB, or SQL.
- Ability to create clear and accurate data visualizations using tools such as Python (Matplotlib/Seaborn) or R (ggplot2).
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective written and verbal communication skills.
Location & details#
- Location: Golden, Colorado.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment Type: Full-time internship.
- Term: Rolling.
