I handed out my resume to a ton of companies at the career fair who said they were hiring IST students for internships. Nearly 2 weeks later, I haven't received a single e-mail or phone call. Should I send the people I talked to an e-mail? On one hand, it makes me sound interested in the job, on the other hand, it makes me seem impaitent.

You should contact them. Send a cover letter and another resume to the HR department of the company and/or send a email to the people you talked to. In my field of study we often don't get internship offers until May, but i'm not sure about IST.

If you were in Geology you would have so many offers you would go crazy...anyway.

Contact them 2 weeks after you submit a resume. It shows interest.

Unless you had a reason to be so memorable that you know they would contact you, it would be in your best interest to always contact possible employers.

Odds are most companies recruit at more than just UMR, so you're just one face in a sea of interested students. You've got to make yourself memorable, be it through a funny joke/story or a really sharp resume and job history.

I can't say I've ever taken the career fair very seriously in terms of getting a job for myself, since more often than not there were only a couple companies that were recruiting mining engineering students, and half of them sucked anyhow (save for this past fall's fair where there were about 25 companies looking or people, man it felt nice to be wearing that red sticker that day).

The fair is still a great place to go to practice formal and informal interviewing skills though, but I had to laugh at some the people there. I remember one guy from a few years ago in a starwars shirt and cut-off jeans shorts. He was a typical swampie, and I imagine he's making a good little cubicle code monkey off in some dead end job now.

Contact them. E-mail your resume to the HR department contact for recruiting. Be sure to mention in your e-mail the name of the person you talked to at the career fair (if that person seemed to like you, else that might be a bad idea).

Also, most companies have an online application proccess. Do that too.