His junior year, Stephen Verdi discovered that even engineering students might not have an automatic career path.  Unable to decide whether to pursue engineering from the technological side or the business side, he found himself wandering through the Summer Opportunities Fair, looking for an internship that might help him decide.  He found exactly what he was looking for when he stumbled across the table for The Egg Factory, a small company which creates, develops, and sells important innovations to global companies.  As he went through the application and interview process, he knew that an internship with this company would be exciting and invaluable.  He was selected as the engineer for a group of four interns, comprised of himself, a business student, a liberal arts student, and an industrial design student.  Together, they competed with three other groups to conceive an innovation of their own and to develop the marketing research and business plans to complement it.  Though some of his duties were more typical of an engineer, he was pleased to contribute in many other ways, including writing the marketing plan and helping with drawings.  “I really got to get a feel for different possible paths for the future,” he said.  After his internship, Stephen immediately started his post-graduation job search and was pleased to find that his experience with The Egg Factory was even more beneficial than he had expected.  Not only did his internship help him discover his own career interests, it proved to be an attention-grabbing resume booster.  “[Engineering] firms really like to see that you have non-engineering experience, and my internship with The Egg Factory allowed me to see what happens to a product from its basic concept to the final package,” said Stephen.  It also didn’t hurt that he had his name on a patent.  Shortly after graduation, Stephen went to work in General Electric’s Edison Engineering Development Program.