NOTE: 2024 summer full-time internships are now open to all college engineering and industrial design students in Alabama! Apply here.

Hands-on design and engineering education

The goal of Hardware Park’s NextGen programming is to fuel the growth of the design, engineering, and manufacturing of physical products in the state of Alabama.

High school internships

Internships are full for Spring 2024.

Please connect with us to stay abreast of future internships.

College internships

Summer 2024 full-time internships are open to undergraduate industrial design and engineering students in Alabama (AAMU, AU, UA, UAB, UAH, USA, and Tuskegee).

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Student testimonials

"Being able to participate in this type of program to have the opportunity to build a medical device that could save millions of people throughout the world was perfect for me."

Jeremy H

Student, Ramsay High School

"The instructors taught us that if we change one variable or one thought process and critically think about your goals, you’ll see how monumentally different the final product can turn out."

Caren S

Student, Woodlawn High School

"I want to create similar medical device technology as what we created through the program and look for problems in current devices to discover new methods to fix them."

Isaiah W

Student, Restoration Academy

Students design cutting-edge medical devices in our NextGen programs

Our programs let high school and college students explore the vast space of the medical device business category. Students take cues from external prompts, their own family health struggles, or common diseases.

Work with 3D printers and other engineering tools

Work with prototyping software and AI imaging software

Hands-on Education

Applying interns should be ready to get their hands dirty.

Industry Exposure

Interns spend quality time with local professionals.

Experienced
Instructors

Our instructors are world-class educators.

Watch the documentary on our
2023 Medtech Design Experience

Made by Gabriel Talley from Uphill Growth.

Check out our press coverage

"The two-week summer program was designed to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate on medical device prototype creation with the guidance of established innovators in the mechanical engineering industry"

Ashley Silver

Reporter, Govtech.com

Alabama political reporter and hardware park

"In those two weeks, students have designed two main projects while working on side passion projects. The main projects are a new crutch with a structure that eases stair use and a wrist-wearable inhaler holder usable in sports."

Samuel Stettheimer

Reporter, Alabama Political Reporter

"During the first week, students were split into two groups of four and were charged with developing an idea for and prototyping a new medical device which required that students thought about both marketability and practicality"

Ryan Michaels

Reporter, Birmingham Times

"The Innovate Alabama grant will significantly amplify Hardware Park’s ability to provide educational programming for budding medical device engineers in high school and college, according to Conner."

Alabama Newscenter Staff

Reporters, Alabama Newscenter

Want to intern at Hardware Park?

If you're interested in interning at Hardware Park and are a high school student living in Birmingham or a college student living anywhere, please reach out to us. We'll keep you in mind for future opportunities.

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