Our practicum placements have taken place in over 50 countries, partnering with over 80 country programs. Explore the interactive map below and see all our practicum partnerships.

Real World Experience

  • Put classroom knowledge into practice in a community in need.
  • Work within a government or non-government organization, a consulting firm or in the private sector. The Mortenson Center has cultivated relationsips with a breadth of organizations. (See some of our partners above and below.)
  • The typical practicum placement is two to three months over the summer after your first academic year.
  • You are matched with a practicum agency according to your topic of interest including water, sanitation, public health, humanitarian, biomedical, structural, research-focused and more.
  • Most placements are international.
  • Practicums are funded, in part, by the Mortenson Center.

Thank You to our 2022 Practicum Host Agencies:

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Student Practicum Experiences

Eight men sitting cross legged on the ground and on a bench with white logo tshirts
Ryan Gomez with his Movement on the Ground team
Desi Beardmoore stands atop a recently completed pedestrian bridge
Desi Beardmoore helped design this Bridges to Prosperity project in Kama, Uganda
Woman standing at a table with T-shirts behind her a literature for Soft Landing non-profit on the table
Zeenath Khan working with the refugee resettlement nonprofit Soft Landing
Ken Wallace and Caleb Cord tour a water treatment plant
Ken Wallace and Caleb Cord tour a water treatment plant in Fort Portal, Uganda
Woman looking over the border wall into Mexico
Jen Morin worked at the Texas border with Solidarity Engineering on WASH projects in shelters in Mexico
Katie Chambers standing in a field with cut bamboo.
Katie Chambers on a field visit to examine sanitation system resilience in resource-limited settings
James Harper reviews notes with others.
James Harper (center) participating in a sanitation workshop in Cambodia
Casie Venable taking housing measurements with local community members.
Casie Venable looks at how post-disaster, reconstructed shelters will perform in a future hazardous events