Professional Internships

The learning in our business program goes beyond the campus. You’ll gain valuable experience through an in-field internship that can offer a path to full-time employment. Your instructors will work with our Career Services team to help you find the right business to approach, sharpen your interview skills, and craft your resume.
Through this unique opportunity, you’ll become more confident, be part of a team to solve real-world challenges—and, you may land a full-time position.
Once you successfully complete your business internship, you’ll have the skills to work at some of the biggest names in business, just like our graduates who’ve been hired by firms like:

• AAA
• Bank of New York Mellon
• Best Buy
• #1 Cochran Automotive
• Dick’s Sporting Goods
• Eat ‘n Park
• FedEx
• H&R Block
• Pittsburgh Pirates
• Rivers Casino
• Sheetz
• Verizon Wireless

The opportunities are out there. And right here.
You’ll take field trips to police departments, courthouses, 911 centers, Medical Examiner’s office, crime lab, and private security firms. Your last quarter will be spent interning with professionals in the field who share your passion—you might just join the ranks of PTC grads who’ve turned their internships into full-time jobs. Some of our students have interned with the following employers:

• Allegheny County Medical Examiner
• North Fayette Township Police Department
• G4S
• Armstrong County Jail
• St. Clair Hospital
• Kindred Hospital
• Mercer County Jail
• New Bethlehem Police Department
• Oakdale Police Department
• Crescent Township Police Department
• Rivers Casino
• Prince George County Police Department
• Target
• Best Buy
• Securitas Security Services
• 911 Dispatch Centers

By stepping out of PTC and into the real world, our culinary students gain valuable experience and get a feel for what the industry has to offer. Earn your toque.
If you pursue the A.S. Culinary Arts track, you will complete an internship during your final quarter. As part of this internship, you’ll build a digital portfolio that documents what you’ve experienced and what you’ve learned. From upscale restaurants to five-star resorts, here’s where our students have worked.

• Capital Grille
• Duquesne Club
• Fox Chapel Golf Club
• Meadows Casino
• Oglebay Resort and Conference Center
• Omni William Penn Hotel
• Rivers Club
• Walt Disney World

All students within our School of Design will complete an internship. Depending on their path, students have interned with the following:

Computer Aided Drafting, Architectural Engineering Technology Students:

• Cadnetics
• CENTRIA
• Loftus Engineers
• Michael Baker International
• Hatch
• Precision Electrical Contractors, Inc.
• AM Architects
• Keystone Consultants, Inc.

Graphic Design Students:

• Eric Ryan Corp.
• Flying Cork Media
• Clearview Federal Credit Union
• Allegra/Image 360
• Minuteman Press
• MGSoft-Net, Inc.
• E Plus Copy Center
• Roo Tees
• Pressley Ridge
• Local Pittsburgh
• Stars & Stripes
• G&S Signs
• Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center
• Spot Light Business Branding
• Opus One Productions/Mr Smalls
• Knepper Press
• Victory Media, Inc.

Video Production Students:

• Cut ‘n Run Productions
• Em-Media
• PMI
• The Ras Astor Black Interactive Music & Arts Learning Institute
• 321 Blink

Web Design and Development Students:

• Higher Images, Inc.
• Dick’s Sporting Goods
• Creehan & Company
• Stream

Expand your knowledge on the worksite.
The electronics professionals we educate here at PTC are equipped to make possible everything from lighting a room to helping first responders to communicate—and save lives. And a large part of their education revolves around their final quarter internship.

These companies have offered our Electronics Engineering Technology students internship opportunities to learn on-the-job skills that can launch their careers:

• Duquesne Light
• First Energy
• Equipment and Controls Inc. (ECI)
• EQT Corp
• Industrial Scientific
• Lincoln Electric Company
• Medical Equipment Source
• Spectra Energy
• Staley Communications/Bearcom
• Progeny Systems

Our students who pursued the Smart Building Technology degree have worked with these local industry firms:

• InterTech Ci
• Guardian Protection Services
• Metro Fence Co
• PSX, Inc.
• Real Sound
• Staley Communications/Bearcom
• Theater Xtreme
• Simply Automated

These area companies have offered our Electronics Engineering Technology, Industrial Instrumentation students a chance to test-drive their skills in a real-world setting:

• Duquesne Light
• First Energy
• Appalachian Power
• Pipeline Controls and Services
• Universal Pressure Pumping
• Winn Marion
• Markwest Energy Partners
• Tarpon Energy
• Pillar Innovations
• US Well Services

A clinical rotation can be a big assist in starting your career.
In two years or less, we’ll prepare you for a position in a hospital, medical office, surgical suite or massage therapy clinic, in a role that’s suited to your interests and your abilities. For you, that means a clinical rotation before you graduate to learn valuable skills in a healthcare or medical facility. We provide 100% of our on site, degree-seeking students internships or clinical rotations before they graduate.

Learn by doing to prepare for your career.
You will take what you’ve learned to the next (and real-world level) through an internship. And you may join those who’ve turned their internships into full-time positions.
No matter the IT path you choose, you will be placed in an internship, typically during your last quarter at PTC. You’ll gain valuable experience, all-important confidence, and a more well-rounded resume. Better yet, you may even land a full-time position. How’s that for a getting a leg up on the competition?
Once you successfully complete your internship, you’ll have the skills to work at some of the biggest names in the business:

• Allegheny Health Network
• Apogee IT Services
• Bank of America—Merrill Lynch
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Covestro
• Datel Software Solutions
• Microsoft
• Dick’s Sporting Goods
• FedEX
• Highmark
• Sherpa Software
• Thermo Fisher
• UPMC

Prepare to help meet a growing demand.
You’re in the middle of a local and regional construction boom that’s changing the area’s landscape—and creating real opportunities for skilled tradespeople. And before new hospitals can advance medicine and new industrial plants can boost the economy, they need skilled welders, electricians, and HVAC technicians to play their critical roles in the construction of new facilities. The opportunities are out there, and they aren’t going away any time soon.

Our HVAC Technology students put their skills to the test in real-world settings with real employers including:

• Allegheny Refrigeration
• Tudi Mechanical Systems
• JA Sauer Company
• Premier Heating & Cooling
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites
• Air Excellence

We work with these partners to provide internships to Welding Technology students:

• Boilermakers Local 154
• Fab-Tec Industries
• Steamfitters Local 449
• Thermal Transfer Corp.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineer

Nursing Clinical Settings (Associate)

Your clinical experience begins in the Simulation Center and continues as you work rotations at our partners in long-term care, hospice, acute care, rehabilitation, and independent living facilities. Examples of where some of our students have had their rotations include:

• Allegheny General Hospital
• Concordia at Rebecca Residence
• Forbes Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare
• HCR ManorCare
• Heritage Valley Beaver
• Jefferson Hospital
• Ohio Valley Hospital
• Passavant Hospital
• St. Margaret Hospital
• Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC
• UPMC—Mercy Hospital
• Washington Hospital
• West Penn Hospital

Practical Nursing Clinical Settings

Your clinical experience begins in the Simulation Center and continues as you work rotations at our partners in the areas of long-term care, hospice, rehabilitation, pediatric specialty care, interim care, and independent living facilities, including:

• UPMC
• Lifecare Hospitals
• Asbury Heights
• Green Briar Treatment Center
• Country Meadows
• Ohio Valley Hospital
• Baptist Home
• St. Barnabas Health System
• HCR Manor Care
• Interim Health Care
• Pediatric Specialty Care

At Pittsburgh Technical College, we approach online learning differently.

Before you graduate, if you are pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree, you’ll work on a capstone project that will mean partnering with an employer in your field to gain more real-world experience and insight, too. This is a required part of our curriculum and that experience belongs on your resume when it’s time for your job search.