2021 WISE Intern Chosen

Kennedy Brown, a junior civil engineering major at the University of Vermont, will be sponsored by ASTM International in this year’s Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program. After completing her undergraduate degree, Brown plans to continue her education at the university in an accelerated master’s program in civil and environmental engineering.

She would like to work as a water resource engineer and eventually in international water policy.

The WISE program, which this year will run virtually from the end of May through July, involves engineering students in a nine-week internship. Participants learn how U.S. government officials make decisions on technological issues as well as how engineers and scientists — and standards — contribute to the legislative process and regulatory decision-making. In her WISE project, Brown will focus on water access, sanitation, and hygiene policies, and how they function in extracting, purifying, and allocatin water resources.