Led by Dr. Alvin Kennedy, the ESI program is a year-round, paid internship program with Morgan State University. ESI provides internal internships at Morgan State to allow students to develop their research skills before participating in an external internship at a MEDE CRA location. ESI has been a highly successful program and serves as a model collaboration for student development.
| Name | Grade, Major | Host | Host Institution |
| Oreluwa Adesina | Junior, Electrical Engineering | Jaafar El-Awady | JHU |
| Dennis Ayree | Graduate Student, Physics | Shashi Karna | US Army Research Laboratory |
| Fathima Hashmath | Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering | Nitin Daphalapurkar | JHU |
| Moses Kayondo | Junior, Engineering Physics | Sung Hoon Kang | JHU |
| Joshua Samba | Junior, Physics | KT Ramesh | JHU |
| Yannick Williams | Junior, Electrical Engineering | Martin Sauer | Ernst Mach Institute, Germany |
