Graduate internship vs doctoral student

Differences between graduate internship and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Graduate internship example responsibilities.

• Develop several Perl scripts to assist engineers to validate RTL files and automate several processes.
• Develop software in python to automate the test process for both functional validation and production test process.
• Script in Perl in order to efficiently automate the process of setting up simulation conditions and collecting data.
• Design PHP application to automate schedule updating process.
• Assist with Facebook, Instagram, and twitter.
• Provide counseling and recommendations to patients regarding their prescription and over-the-counter medications under the direct supervision of the on-duty pharmacist.
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Doctoral student example responsibilities.

• Manage multiple collaborative projects peripheral to dissertation that leverage experience in characterization and inorganic synthesis.
• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Used RT-PCR, ELISA, western blot, culture of establish cell lines, and immunohistochemistry.
• Apply NMR techniques to assess the effect of a health supplement on neurological changes in Alzheimer s disease.
• Analyze the molecular structures by NMR and FR-IR, determine the molecular weight and polymerization kinetics by GPC.
• Develop complex ELISA and western blot methods to study and characterize the host immune response to intracellular parasitism.
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