Ranked as one of the best internships in the U.S. by the Princeton Review, WISE (Washington Internships for Students of Engineering) offers a unique opportunity to 3rd and 4th year engineering students to spend the summer in Washington, D.C., learning about the interaction of technology and public policy. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) will sponsor Nathan Sacks, an undergraduate student of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, to be among the WISE interns this summer.

Selected from a nationwide competition, Sacks will spend nine weeks learning how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public policy decisions.   At the end of the nine weeks, all of the WISE interns will produce a public policy paper on a topic of interest, i.e. alternate energy, and present their findings on Capitol Hill. 

“ASME is pleased to name Nathan Sacks as one of the participants in the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering program for 2013,” said Marc W. Goldsmith, president of ASME.  “Nathan should find a receptive audience on Capitol Hill at a time when public policy officials are expanding the dialogue about the role of renewable energy in the nation’s energy future.”

The WISE program, founded in 1980 through a collaboration of professional engineering societies including ASME, aims to educate future leaders of the engineering profession on the public policy process and to encourage technical input in legislative and regulatory decision making.