The Tauber Team Project is a paid, full-time, 12-week summer internship where you work with fellow Tauber students to solve a substantive operations or supply chain challenge for a sponsoring organization.
Teams draw on Tauber’s combined business and engineering approach to solving operational challenges. Supported by faculty advisors and company leaders, you’ll analyze problems, develop solutions, and help put them into practice.
Tauber works closely with sponsoring organizations to define projects with clear deliverables and executive-level support. You’ll take on meaningful responsibility, build experience working across functions, and see how your contributions influence real business decisions.
Upon project completion, all teams compete in the annual Spotlight! Team Project Showcase Scholarship Competition, where teams present their project results to corporate representatives, students, alumni, and faculty.
Senior industry executives serve as judges and evaluate projects based on scope, implementation, impact, and presentation quality. Winning teams share approximately $40,000 in scholarship prizes.
View Past Spotlight! Winners
Note: Some sponsoring companies restrict team projects to domestic students.
Yes. The Tauber Team Project is a paid, full-time, 12-week summer internship with a sponsoring organization. You’ll work as part of a multidisciplinary Tauber student team, with support from faculty advisors and company leaders.
A Tauber Institute team project is a substantive, paid, multidisciplinary “consulting-like” experience for all Tauber students (subject to the student meeting the expectations and professional standards of the Institute and the team project employer). The Tauber Institute diligently works with sponsoring companies to ensure that all projects have both business and engineering components, are strategically relevant to the company, have defined deliverables and are backed by high-level executives. These aspects, coupled with a 2-3 person Tauber student team and supported by two academic advisors, lead to tangible results – both for the company and for a student’s resume.
Our industry sponsors have a late-November deadline to submit their project proposals to our team for review. Once approved, a shortlist of companies with a brief project description will be shared with our students. The project list is typically shared just before the winter break in mid-December.
Students will have the opportunity to learn about all available team projects and will narrow down a shortlist of the projects they have the greatest interest in. Once narrowed down, students can bid on interview slots to meet with the companies and explore fit. Companies are also simultaneously rating their top-ranking students. Once interviews are complete, our team utilizes an internal algorithm to finalize project assignments. While not guaranteed, most students tend to get paired with their first or second project choices.
Some students may receive return job offers from their sponsor companies. It ultimately comes down to each company’s hiring needs in a given year and the fit and interest of the student(s) assigned to the project.
