ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY Over the course of the week, the student will be exposed to key elements of the design process from a variety of perspectives, including field surveys, client design meetings, architectural review, engineering (mechanical and electrical) review and overall project management. The student will shadow members of the Bancroft-AE design team in meetings and in the field interacting with clients and end-users (i.e. patients and scientists). The internship is intended to give students with an interest in pursuing careers as architects and/or engineers the opportunity to immerse in the working environment of an active design firm. The objective is for students to have a better sense of the daily expectations of professionals in these fields, while encouraging them to pursue formal education as engineers and architects. Some of our local sites may be a bit of a challenge for a person with disabilities. Those are challenges we embrace - as a disabled-veteran owned business, we have and always will have, persons with disabilities on our team and welcome students with disabilities. ABOUT BANCROFT ARCHITECTS + ENGINEERS Bancroft Architects + Engineers is a full-service design firm with 38 full-time architects and engineers working from its headquarters in Elk Grove Village and six studios nationwide. Paul Jenkins '81 serves as the President and CEO. Though Bancroft designs a broad range of commercial, educational and industrial facilities, its focus is the design of highly-technical facilities in support of healthcare and the sciences. Recently completed technical projects include the design of the $30 million renovation of the laboratories at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the design for the renovation of Northwestern's Applied Physics Laboratory for particle acceleration research and the design of the Saudi Royal family's mobile medical facility. As a firm founded and led by disabled veterans, Bancroft-AE commits significant resources to designing leading-edge facilities for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA is Bancroft's largest client and at present it has ongoing VA Medical Center design projects in nine states including Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.