Nuclear Engineering Co-Op - Hoffman Estates, IL

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At Siemens Healthineers, we offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. Sound interesting? Then come and join our global team as a Nuclear Engineering Co-Op.

This is a role well suited for a highly motivated student looking to build their skill set and gain hands-on experience. As a Nuclear Engineering Co-Op, you will be responsible for:

• Using radiation sources to collect data from detector systems for the purpose of testing detector, collimator, or shielding technologies

• Developing code to process and analyze that data to answer specific technical questions

• Developing mechanical or electrical test fixtures and/or sub-assemblies to enable the testing of detector or collimator technologies

• Developing algorithms or analysis methods to aid in the technical investigation of detector or collimator technologies

• Presenting your development activities, in-process work items, results and discussion in a professional manner to engineering staff and management

This position may suit you best if you are familiar with what is below, and would like to develop your skills with Healthineers:

• Radiation detection methods and instrumentation

• Electro-mechanical system engineering

• Radiation Transport theory

• Radiation shielding methods

• Medical imaging

• Medical physics

• Detector corrections and calibrations including uniformity, linearity and energy correction

Required skills and education to have for the success of this role

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program, majoring in Engineering, Physics, or Medical Physics (rising junior or senior preferred)

• Minimum 3.0 GPA (preferred)

• Registered and eligible to participate in a co-op through your university

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual's potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world's most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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