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Intel Intern Gains Hands-on Experience As a Software Engineering graduate, one of Aspen Smith’s goals is to help defend the people, software and data that keep our world safe and productive. She interned as an information security engineer for Intel Corporation to get one step closer to that goal. Smith (’24) was able to gain experience in upgrading software systems, automating processes and analyzing tools throughout her internship. “My main responsibility was updating, testing and releasing import scripts for an application-scanning tool called Threadfix,” she said. Beyond improving her hard skills, Smith also learned a lot about balancing her decisions to take initiative individually and ask for help when she needed it. “My internship with Intel gave me insight into what work I enjoy doing and, more importantly, don’t enjoy doing in the software realm,” she said. “I discovered that I enjoy automation more than I enjoy bash scripting and system maintenance.” Since the internship with Intel, Smith also gained experience as a software engineer intern with Garmin and a technical intern with Northrop Grumman. Now, she works in the Critical Skills Recruiting Program at Sandia National Laboratories. “I know that my experiences from college will contribute greatly to
my success.” Aspen Smith (’24) B.S. in Software Engineering
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