Undergraduate Internships

2018 fall recruitment (2019-2020 academic year)

  • Zane Kodama (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Ube Plant. Ube (Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan. Management Department. (summer internship), Linguistics major; Japanese minor
  • Benjamin Sollecito (University of Pittsburgh): Central Class, Matsusaka (Mie Prefecture), Japan. Active Expert Center. (one-year internship), Computer Science major; Japanese and Economics minors
  • Connor Wilson (University of Pittsburgh): Fukui Byora Co., Ltd., Awara, Fukui Prefecture. Business Intelligence Tool in the Planning Room, General Affairs (ten-month internship), Japanese and Information Science double major.

2017 fall recruitment (2018-2019 academic year)

  • Paige Bruckner (University of Pittsburgh): Hoshino Resorts Management Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Marketing Hoshino Resorts. (summer internship), Linguistics major; Korean and Chinese Minor

2016 fall recruitment (2017-2018 academic year)

  • Glen Ayes (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Matsusaka (Mie Prefecture), Japan. Active Expert Center. (one-year internship), Mechanical Engineering major, Japanese minor, Asian Studies certificate
  • Oliver Jia (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Ube Plant. Ube (Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan. Management Department. (three-month summer internship), Japanese major, English Creating Writing minor, Asian Studies certificate. Oliver was the first Pitt student to undertake an internship at Central Glass' Ube Plant and participated in the Year in Japan study abroad program at Konan University the same year.
  • Andrea Hall (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Kawasaki Plant. Kawasaki (Kanagawa Prefecture), Japan. Production Department. (summer internship), Japanese major, Linguistics minor
  • Benjamin Tydings (University of Pittsburgh): Taiheiyo Cement, Sakura City (Chiba Prefecture), Japan. R&D Department I (Chemistry). (five-month internship), Chemistry major, Japanese minor, Asian Studies certificate

2015 fall recruitment (2016-2017 academic year)

  • Geoffrey Hollinger (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Matsusaka (Mie Prefecture), Japan. Active Expert Center. (one-year internship)
  • Miniami Makino (Carnegie Mellon University): Central Glass, Kawasaki plant (Kanagawa Prefecture), Japan. Production Department. (summer internship)

2014 fall recruitment (2015-2016 academic year)

  • Tyler Reese (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Matsusaka plant (Mie Prefecture), Japan. Active Expert Center. (one-year internship; only completed one half year for personal reasons)

2013 fall recruitment (2014-2015 academic year)

  • Sanaa Ahmed (University of Pittsburgh): Central Glass, Matsusaka (Mie Prefecture), Japan. (one-year internship) Chemistry internship; moves to Human Resources for most of her time. Sanaa later took a job with this company at their Tokyo office.
  • Christopher Dreliszak (Point Park College and University of Pittsburgh): Fukui Byora Co., Ltd., Awara, Fukui Prefecture. 3D Computer Graphics Promotional Movie Production. [offered; declined]

2012 fall recruitment (2013-2014 academic year)

  • Some student applications and interest, but none were accepted.

2011 fall recruitment (2012-2013 academic year)

  • Bence Feher (University of Pittsburgh): Fukui Byora Co., Ltd., Awara, Fukui Prefecture. Computer science/engineering position. Bence later took a job with this company and stayed for five years.

2010 fall recruitment (2011-2012 academic year)

  • Some student applications and interest, but none were accepted.

2009 fall recruitment (2010-2011 academic year)

  • Weilu Tan (University of Pittsburgh): Panasonic Electronic Works, Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan. Computer science position (see below for several other students accepted at this company previously).

2008 fall recruitment (2009-2010 academic year)

  • Valeria Reznitskaya (Carnegie Mellon University): Panasonic Electronic Works Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan. Computer science position (same as the Matsushika internship for Eduardo Gonzalez below; company changed their name).
  • Terence P. Sperringer, Jr. (University of Pittsburgh): H&T Internship, Osaka, Japan. Computer science position; but company had to cancel the position due to the financial crisis. Company later went out of business. We had hosted two students previously with this small medical software company.

2007 fall recruitment (2008-2009 academic year internships)

  • Had a number of students interested (recruited from Kobe, Japan via email), but no one was accepted for an internship this year.

2006 fall recruitment (2007-2008 academic year internships)

  • Ricardo Villaro (Carnegie Mellon University): GlaxoSmithKline, Tokyo. Business Development Dept., Finance Division.
  • Andrew Reid (Leigh University): Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo. Industrial Automation Business Headquarters, Development & Engineering Dept.
  • Eduardo Manuel Gonzalez (University of Pittsburgh): Matsushika Electric Works, Ltd., Osaka, Japan. Computer science position.

2005 fall recruitment (2006-2007 academic year internships)

  • Nicholas Cica (University of Pittsburgh): GlaxoSmith Kline, Tokyo. Business management and corporate planning.
  • Erika Matsumoto (Carnegie Mellon University): J. Hayashida, Inc., Osaka. Business managing and marketing for housing material and construction division of company. [internship halted early due to her sudden illness while in Japan]
  • Sungjoon (Steve) Won (Carnegie Mellon University): Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  • Jonathan Barton (University of Pittsburgh): HT&T, Osaka (medical software company). Computer programming. (This company also hosted Jasmine Ver as intern.)
  • Erica Hincewicz (University of Pittsburgh): Taiyo Industrial Co., Ltd., Wakayama. Testing System Department, Business Affairs Section.

2004-2005 recruitment (2005 internships)

  • Calvin Ng (Carnegie Mellon University): Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd, Tokyo. Research and development of pressure sensitive adhesives.
  • Rika Wright (University of Pittsburgh): Yawata R&D Lab., Technical Development Bureau,Nippon Steel Corporation, City of Kitakyushu.
  • (Erika Matsumoto of CMU was accepted to a company but the internship deferred to 2006; see above)

2003-2004 recruitment (2004 internships)

  • Jeremy Bailey (University of Pittsburgh): Mitsuba Corporation, Kiryu (Gunma prefecture). Purchasing department position for an automobile part company.
  • Kelvin Goh (Carnegie Mellon University): Toshiba Corporation, Knowledge Media Lab, R&D Center, Kawasaki. Artificial intelligence.
  • Russell Cernansky (University of Pittsburgh): Yaskawa Electric Corporation, City of Kitakyushu. Corporate planning.
  • Cecil Wei (Carnegie Mellon University): Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Atsugi (Kanagawa prefecture). Work in the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories.

2002-2003 recruitment (2003 internships)

  • Lance Fetters (Drexel University): Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Gifu (Anpachi prefecture). Digital Systems Development Center.
  • Jasmine Ver (University of Pittsburgh): HT&T, Osaka (medical software company). Computer programming. (This company visited Pittsburgh with Jasmine, on a fact-finding mission.)
  • Casey Tan (Drexel University): Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co., Ltd., Tokyo. Integrated Service Creation Environment for Web Services and Interacted Telecommunication Services.
  • Ashley Wingert (University of Pittsburgh): Joban Kotsu Jidosha Co.,Ltd., a trucking company with bus routes, etc. in Iwaki City, Fukushima prefecture. Planning Division, research, web maintenance, and various other duties.

2001-2002 recruitment (2002 internships)

  • Lawrence Chang (Carnegie Mellon University): Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Tokyo. Internet Technology R&D Department.
  • [NOTE: at this point, there was no active recruitment in ASC for interns. An earlier program, JSTUMP, had been funded by the Department of Defense. JSTUMP was an active program for sending Westinghouse and other engineers to Japan after a semester of pre-departure courses and preparation at University of Pittsburgh.]