Career planning and preparation
Looking for help in putting together the perfect resume or cover letter? Or maybe you are looking for an internship or even some mock interviews for an upcoming job? LAS Career Services and College of Design Career Services can help you with all of these and more.
Experiential learning
Our students are actively involved in opportunities out of the classroom, around campus, and off-campus during field trips, study abroad, and similar programs. Our course for field sketching includes a different field trip almost every Friday of the semester and ends with a week-long trip. Past trips have included the Bighorn Basin and Mountains, Arches National Park, Canyonlands, the Rocky Mountains, the Badlands, Whiterock Conservancy, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and more. Whether it is designing murals for the Science Hall II building, creating illustrations for the ISU Insect Zoo, or 3D printing skeletal forms for the College of Veterinary Medicine, you have the opportunity to take part in a variety of real-world projects while pursuing your degree.
Careers in Scientific Illustration and Visualization
The career outlets in this field are many as professionals work in a wide array of areas dependent on communicating science visually. These include museums, zoos, government agencies, research labs, biomedical studios, legal firms, and more. One of the best ways to survey what professionals do in the field is to review these websites:
- Association of Medical Illustrators
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
- American Society of Botanical Artists
Medical illustration is one of the largest fields available to graduates of scientific illustration and visualization, but corporations and companies in other markets are always looking to find new ways to interpret and communicate complex concepts. Examples of medical illustration employers include medical centers, hospitals, research institutions, publishing companies, law firms, medical education companies, pharmaceutical or biotech companies, and more. This can also include designing pamphlets for patient education, helping patients understand terminology and treatments for a variety of diagnoses.
Non-medical illustration students can work in a wide range of science areas such as climate science research, visual journalism, museum fabrication and exhibition, botanical illustration, and others.
A growing field for illustrators involves e-learning, instructional design, UX/UI design, creating websites and apps as well as mixed-reality games and interactive programs.
