The benefits for students who do undergraduate research are mainly thought of in
terms of graduate school success and opportunities for future careers as professors.
These benefits also help students who go into business, industry, or government.
Faculty mentors are often unaware of careers and internships in business,
industry, or government. In this paper, some of these opportunities will
be presented so that professors can better direct students to them as they
are mentoring students. Much of this information has been obtained while
organizing the summer internship program at Brigham Young University’s
Department of Mathematics, the “Careers in Math” speaker series funded by
NSF grant DUE-1019594, and our academic-year undergraduate research
program, which involves about 75 mathematics majors a year in original
research.
Keywords
undergraduate research, careers in math, internships,
industry
