What does an R&D intern do?

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Zippia Team · Accepted Answer

An R&D intern works alongside career professionals to assist in the research and development of something specifically related to what that field creates or produces. In other words, a research and design intern can work in many industries or in academia at universities running research labs.

Depending on your field and focus of study, the research and design process can look very different depending on the scenario.

Some examples of research and design fields include:

R & D biomedical engineer (e.g., develop new vaccines or therapies)
R & D food engineer (e.g., creation of foods, seed engineering)
Product R & D (e.g., electronics, household appliances)
R & D genetic engineering (e.g., CRISPER, cancer treatments)
R & D Transportation (e.g., aviation, automobile, train)

The research part of the job entails learning everything about the subjects which you are working on. This may include extensive literature reviews, conducting studies, prototyping, and modeling. From this initial research phase, a lot of valuable information is learned.

The Design part focuses on using this information to design a new product, specimen, or machine. The design process may go through several iterations before coming up with a final design to be used for production.