A paid, full-time summer fellowship open to any major. You work on a live problem inside a real company from May through August, with a president or VP as your client, and you can carry the project into the academic year.
Nobody touches a project until training is finished. In 2026 that meant roughly two weeks of full days together before the first kickoff, starting with setting up a development environment. In other words, from zero.
Fellows arrive with very different technical backgrounds, and some have never written a line of code. Training exists to close that gap, and projects are assigned afterwards.
You will be on a team of two or three, working a scoped problem for a named champion. A project coach runs weekly check-ins; CRC advisors step in when a build gets heavy.
At the end you present to the company and hand off documentation. Several fellows have had their work continue running after the summer ended.
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From application to a working system, with training built in before anyone touches a project.
The application opens online in the fall. PLACEHOLDER: exact dates, prompts and eligibility to confirm.
PLACEHOLDER: selection process and notification timeline.
About two weeks of technical training and partner plant tours, then a full-time paid project with a regional company through the summer.
Fellows can carry projects into the school year, continuing the same engagement or joining a new one.
Psychologists and aerospace engineers, sophomores and PhD candidates. The range is the point.
Psychology and Spanish, Arts and Letters
Hover for a quoteI spent the first two weeks certain they had put me on the wrong project. Then our partner ran the tool past twenty employees and it failed, not on accuracy but on trust. That is when my major stopped feeling like a stretch.
Gabriella, Psychology and Spanish
Computer Science, Engineering
Hover for a quoteI had written plenty of software before this. I had never had to defend a design decision to the person paying for it.
Maureen, Computer Science
Finance MBA, Mendoza
Hover for a quoteI came in thinking the challenge would be the model. It was the data, and it was always the data.
Akshat, Finance MBA
Neuroscience and Behavior, Science
Hover for a quoteThe hardest part was never the code. It was learning to ask a VP the right question in the ten minutes he actually had.
Liam, Neuroscience and Behavior
Mechanical Engineering and Spanish, Engineering
Hover for a quoteI switched between the technical work and the client conversations all summer. Both got easier. Neither got easy.
Sarah, Mechanical Engineering
Finance and Economics, Mendoza
Hover for a quoteI am a finance major. I did not expect to spend my summer talking to engineers about how their work actually gets done.
Kiki, Finance and Economics
Quotes shown are illustrative drafts. Real quotes to be collected from each fellow.
Photographs still to be collected from the rest of the cohort.
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Finance, Business Analytics minor
Finance / AI Analytics in Business & Theology
Mechanical Eng. / Engineering Corporate Practice
Finance & Business Analytics, French minor
Finance
Aerospace Engineering, ACMS
Aerospace Eng. / International Security Studies
Psychology & Spanish, Business Economics minor
Aerospace Eng. / Computational Digital Technologies
ACMS & Economics, Real Estate minor
Aerospace Engineering
Finance
Business Analytics & Accounting
Finance & Economics
Business Analytics / Strategy & Product Management
Neuroscience and Behavior
Strategy
Computer Science
Mechanical Eng., Collaborative Innovation minor
Mechanical Eng. / Engineering Corporate Practice
Mechanical Engineering, Spanish
Mechanical Engineering
Finance
Economics, Foundations of Business minor
PLACEHOLDER: field of study to confirm
ACMS & Global Affairs
Finance & Computer Science
Business Analytics
This section fills in as the first cohorts graduate, with current roles and an option for alumni willing to talk to prospective applicants.
No, and the cohort is the proof. Summer 2026 had twenty-eight fellows across twenty-five fields of study and four Notre Dame colleges.
Alongside the engineers were majors in psychology, Spanish, theology, neuroscience, economics, accounting, global affairs, and real estate. Exactly one fellow was a computer science major.
PLACEHOLDER: eligibility to confirm.
PLACEHOLDER: requirements to confirm once the fall form is built.
Current fellows hold office hours during the application window. PLACEHOLDER for a scheduling link.
The 2026 cohort ran about two weeks before projects began: development environment setup, problem solving and project management, a deep dive on generative AI, ETL and data pipeline concepts using AI-assisted coding on a real messy manufacturing dataset, data science and forecasting, then robotic process automation.
The last stretch covered how engagements actually run, working norms, issue tracking, meeting cadence, and how to present to an executive.
Format for the next cohort is still being set; length and whether any of it is remote are both to be confirmed.
Yes. Training in 2026 included tours of partner manufacturing plants, including Vista Manufacturing and General Stamping & Metalworks. You walk the floor before being asked to build anything for it, which changes the questions you know to ask.
Yes. PLACEHOLDER: compensation detail to confirm.
PLACEHOLDER: to confirm. Partner companies are concentrated in the South Bend–Elkhart region.
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