Summer Project Scholarships

Summer Project Scholarships require students to work for 10 weeks (400 hours) over the period November 2026 to February 2027. 

Below is the list of available undergraduate 2026/2027 summer projects. For more information about each project, click the title link to download a PDF with further details.

Please contact [email protected] if you wish to apply for any vacant positions. Successful applicants will be contacted in due course.

Project #	Institution	Title	Status
1	University of Auckland	Interaction of Distributed Energy Resources with Future Hybrid AC/DC Grids	Closed
2	University of Auckland	Plug-and-Play DC Infrastructure for Future Electrified Cities	Vacant
3	University of Auckland	Community Microgrids for Climate-Resilient Energy Futures	Closed
4	University of Auckland	Fault Behaviour and Protection Challenges in Future DC Networks	Closed
5	University of Waikato	New configurations for solar power extraction with hybrid inverters and supercapacitor energy storage	Closed
6	University of Waikato	Setting up comprehensive test procedures for using high power solar simulators, combination solar simulator/ DC load and Arbin supercapacitor tester	Closed
7 & 8	University of Canterbury	Efficiency of AC-DC and DC-DC converters (2 students)	Closed
9	University of Canterbury	Multi frequency scanning methods for Dual Active Bridge (DAB) DC -DC converter	Closed
10	University of Canterbury	Fault data extraction for hybrid AC/DC grids simulated in PSCAD using Python	Closed
11	University of Canterbury	Replacing the computationally intensive components of EMT (Electromagnetic Transients) simulation with PINN (Physics Informed Neural Network)	Closed
12	University of Canterbury	Comparison of symbolic differentiation, automatic differentiation, and numerical differentiation to solve system of nonlinear equations	Closed
13	University of Canterbury	Robust Control of DC-DC Converters	Closed
14	Auckland University of Technology	PLL-Free and Adaptive Control of Grid-Connected Converters for Weak and Low-Inertia Networks	Closed
15	University of Waikato	Testing lightning strike related surge withstand ability of solar panels and solar arrays	Vacant

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Opportunities for Industry

Check out our opportunities for collaborative research with industry.

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International Internships and Short Projects

Check out our opportunities for international student internships in Christchurch - 3 or 6 months, post- or undergraduate.

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Position based in Auckland or Christchurch.

Current postdoctoral vacancies
There are no current positions, please check again later.

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PhD or Masters Students

Postgraduate positions based in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington or Christchurch.

Application process

• Check the available projects below and identify one (or more).
• Check the FAN Postgraduate generic position advert - common for all projects listed below.
• All New Zealand Universities have English requirements for postgraduate studies - please check their website:
  • University of Canterbury
  • University of Auckland
  • Auckland University of Technology
  • Victoria University of Wellington
  • University of Waikato

Current postgraduate vacancies
There are no current postgraduate positions. Positions will be advertised when available, please check back later.