🇨🇿 Internship in the Czech Republic ⚙️ Materials Testing and Tensile Research at an Academic Institution 🔬 (CZK 15,000/month)

If you are a mechanical engineering student fascinated by how materials behave under stress, this IAESTE research internship in the Czech Republic is a great hands-on opportunity. You will run uniaxial tensile tests on a miniature in-house device, process and analyse the data in MATLAB or Python, and contribute to the ongoing development of the testing machine within a lively academic environment.

About the Internship

Knowing the mechanical properties and characterisation of materials is essential in structural design and industrial applications. This internship focuses on uniaxial tensile testing using a miniature in-house device, followed by the processing and management of the resulting data.

The curves will be evaluated, filtered, or resized, and the yield stress and the ultimate tensile strength will be processed in MATLAB or Python. The machine is still being improved and is located in a large office of graduate students. Eventually, it will be necessary to adapt the design of the testing machine to the actual specimens and the needs of the partner academic institution. Samples will be provided by the Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University in Ukraine, in the form of foils. The work will be carried out with the additional support of a PhD student.

What You Will Do

⚙️ Perform uniaxial tensile testing using a miniature in-house device

📊 Process and manage the resulting data, evaluating, filtering, and resizing the curves

🧮 Process the yield stress and ultimate tensile strength in MATLAB or Python

🔧 Help adapt the design of the testing machine to the actual specimens and the partner institution's needs

🤝 Work with the support of a PhD student in a graduate student office

Who Can Apply

This internship is for students in Mechanical Engineering who have completed at least two years of study.

🔬 Knowledge of material behaviour, mechanics of materials, and tensile experiments

🗣️ Good English (B1, B2)

🎙️ An interview is required

Work Details

📍 Location: Czech Republic (on-site, research and development environment)

⏳ Duration: 8 to 12 weeks, within 31 August 2026 to 18 December 2026 (latest possible start date 26 October 2026)

🕗 Working hours: 40 per week, 8 per day

💶 Gross pay: 15,000 CZK per month

🏷️ Reference number: CZ-2026-100016

Living and Lodging

🏠 IAESTE provides accommodation in the "Pod Palackého vrchem" student dormitory, where interns are housed in shared double rooms with same-sex roommates. If an intern prefers a single room, they are responsible for arranging alternative accommodation independently.

💶 Estimated cost of lodging: around 5,500 CZK per month, with an estimated total cost of living, including lodging, of around 13,000 CZK per month

How to Apply

Applications are made through IAESTE. Apply via the official IAESTE listing, quoting the reference number CZ-2026-100016. Students apply through their home country's IAESTE national committee, and an interview is required as part of the selection.

👉 Apply here: https://iaeste.org/internships/cz-2026-100016/about