What I Did During My Engineering Internship
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This video covers my experience as an engineering intern. During this internship I had a summer long project that consisted of making a prototype of a handheld printer.
My job was at a cubicle and I did work full time (from 9-5). Most of the work also was done on the computer which included gathering data and programming various hardware devices. The internship was paid ($23.22 per hour) but there were no benefits or anything like that.
Overall it was a good experience and I learned a lot of valuable skills. Getting an internship is one of the best ways to set yourself up for a guaranteed full time job after college.
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applied for an engineering internship for a Mechanical/Electrical Engineering company in Seattle and just had my first interview! Your videos have been very helpful for preparing and gaining insight into the field. Thank you for all your hard work
Congrats! So glad the videos have helped and hope you're able to land the job!
How much experience did you have at the start of your internship? Im also majoring in Mech. Engineering
All I really had was the classes I had taken at my university that were more design based and I included those projects on my resume. Everything else was more work experience, leadership positions I had on campus, and stuff like that. Most places looking for interns understand that you most likely don't have a ton of experience so even if you don't just include leadership and job stuff because they look for soft skills such as being able to work in teams and stuff like that.
Another amazing video. Thank you so much for the useful information you constantly put out. I sincerely love and appreciate you videos! You are awesome!
Thank you so much. This has drifted my thoughts on how to get an internship/job. Very helpful!!
This is basically the same for my experience as a Civil. My degree gave me the basic concepts. As an entry level, I didn’t run into anything that I have never seen in school, but I only had the basic knowledge. There was a lot of reading and learning in the first year exactly how you described. I only did autocad for the first 3 months. But received more design work after my autocad skills were sharpened.
Love watching your videos Major. I am currently a sophomore Computer Engineering major. Thanks you for all the useful information. Keep it up!
Really glad you enjoy them! Thanks for the comment!
That was a cool project.
Very different from my EE internship. I worked in a big factory, got to wear a hard hat and high-vis vest and basically do a bunch of small pet projects for busy people. Usually write documentation and small administration stuff. I also got to research expensive industrial electrical measuring equipment and pester a lot of sales people for info and price quotes by email and phone. (A very useful engineering skill they don't teach you in class. )
Thank you so much for the content! I'm an engineering student and your videos are more than useful to me.
Love the videos. Thanks for sharing
Great video. Thanks for sharing! :D
Jesus. You got an internship for 23/hour with no extracurriculars, no projects, no connections, and you did not meet all the qualifications? And they had >100 applicants? Where the hell did you work?!?!
I know but he is very pretty
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@@catherinaaaaaa What state do you live in, and do we know what state this guy worked in?
@@christiansnaturestudio6599 Fun fact though, it was found statistically true that those considered more attractive than average are paid more for the same job and more often considered for promotions than people who are considered less attractive than average. So Ethan has a point.
@@catherinaaaaaa it's the new York housing stipend for me... No cap that was an entry level computer engineering position?
Your videos are very informative.
That was an outstanding video because I am in the same boat where I feel under qualified where every one around me is a math genius.
awesome videos as always. this channel is going to blow tf up soon give it a year or less
i'm much confident on finding internships now, thank you
GREAT Information !!!
Tanks!!!
Few years back, i remember watching your videos. Now, i will be having my internship (1st july) and im nervous but excited at the same time. Its funny because i literally have no idea what you was saying in this video about your project, like at all. Fast forward to present, huh, it all makes sense to me. I understand what youre trying to convey and do. Its funny how different and more mature of me as a person and as a future enegineer, to see how much have changed in the past couple of years
Hey super cool to realise as a Physics &Mathematics major I could probably do/have helped with a lot of your summer project. It's so wonderful how the more you learn about the STEM subjects, the more you realise their interconnection: for example, one of my mathematics lecturers works with biologists to model biological systems.
I mean, how hard can it be to learn soldering?
The definitely a lot of overlap! And no soldering just takes a little practice to get it right but doesn't take long to learn.
Sick! That's exactly the type of stuff I wanna do!
im in my second year of college and im still stuck on physics or computer engineering with dual in electrical....... and not going to lie this is terrifying DX i have an irrational fear of failure
Thank you for this vid. I love learning the nuts and bolts of things, and any "street moves" that I can acquire (like applying for jobs that you're only half-qualified for, I never would have done that, especially in a STEM field, but now...) That was a peach of an internship, mostly because you got to design and build, which I think is what every engineering major lusts for. And it was cool that you were able to do soldering.
I would like to know, though, did you leverage this internship into a career with this company or any other? Certainly it had to be great "resume filler" (experience) at the very least.
Thanks for the comment! I did not get a job at this company after school, my entry level job was much different (as you'll see in a video coming out soon where I go into detail on my first job). After the internship my boss told me to get in contact with them when I'm close to graduating about a full time position but there were many other companies I wanted to work at and once I got into one of those I didn't need to reach out to this company I interned at. But yes it was a huge resume booster that was a talking point of lots of interviews I did during my last year.
Impressive. And fascinating.
Could you make a video on majoring in Information Technology? Thanks!
This is what I do on my free time. You're telling me I can get paid for this?
YES
Go work and get the bag!!
i did this in middle school. you're saying i could have gotten paid for that!
why the hell am i even in school?
Thanks, great video. One comment though on your annotations - SI units are case sensitive . . . ;-)
How do people get internships after their first year of college!!?? When they don't know a lot of the stuff required for an internship?
Some people just do! Might be connections, or just finding the right company, and so on. I did not even try my first year but my sister (who is still in school as an M.E.) got an internship her second year and was at a community college.
MajorPrep so there is a chance
Thats what I am wondering too. I am studying M.E and fortunately I could obtain 4.0 GPA for my first 31 credit hours, but after browsing some internship requirements, I feel like I am nowhere near to qualify to those, except the GPA ( sorry for my bad english, still learning it )
Well math majors probably know nothing required for any internship but they still do them.
Great video! But can you make a video on software engineering?
I love this guy
I have kind of a stupid question, but I’ve been wondering about this for a really long time. Is it possible for a high school student to have an internship in a engineering company, even with no experience?
+I am Polar Bear it's absolutely possible. In fact I mention that in my 7 tips for engineering students video cause I remember not knowing this until my friends started getting internships lol.
Just adding to this a bit. Here in NC, Duke Energy has many different levels of internships within Engineering. Many are for seniors in high school. Others for freshman and sophomores in college, then jr's and seniors in college. Lastly, they have them for students going for their doctorates. So many opportunities, just have to start looking early and get ahead on everything.
I am legit scared af. My university requires me to do a 2 months *Pre-Study Internship* before I even start university and my God, idk anything about coding nor ardrino
There are lots of free resources on the Internet! Even here on CZcams, there are many good Tutorials about Arduino and Coding. You just have to find them :D
Goodness. How do you remember all these details. You must be pretty intelligent.
thank you
Hey MajorPrep , a beautiful video as usual .
I wanted to ask you about the interlacing of different engineering fields ..... Especially the mechatronics field , can a mechatronics engineer have a job as a mechanical or as an electric engineer ? If yes then to which degree ? For example can he/she design car engines , suspension ...etc or design electric circuits or devices ?
Thank you for your videos , can't wait for the next one .
Thank you! And yes mechatronics engineers can do mechanical or electrical jobs. It's very hard to say what exactly they can or cannot do. But typically you'll hear of them working in robotics, or on control systems, and things like that. Like I'm sure they could help design the suspension of a car, but that's mostly mechanical engineering work (no electrical aspect) so a mechanical engineer might be ideal for it. But if there was some suspension system that had electrical components where it reacted to the curvature and bumps of the road (I talk about something like this briefly in the automotive engineering video), then a mechatronics engineer might be good for that.
MajorPrep Thanks for your answer
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Can I send requests for intership to the companies i like? And not just look for internship application online?
I also heard that I can have better chances at getting accepted in a smaller company for an internship (and that you learn more in a smaller one).
Last question:Do you maybe know if companies accepts students from different countries? By that i mean if i can get an internship in another country? (probably a stupid question :x )
Small companies are great because you will probably be a bigger part of whatever you're working on.
You can go to various company websites and apply through their "careers" page. I didn't really do that for my internship but I did for my full time job. And yes you can work in other countries but you have to go through the proper steps to legally do so and fill out all the necessary paperwork. Also for some companies it would be more difficult especially one's that work on defense projects for the government. At least in the US you need to be a citizen to get a clearance (there may be some exceptions to this but not totally sure).
Check the bulletin boards and talk to the various offices in your major's building. See if they offer any co-op or internship programs with specific companies. University often have relationships with certain companies.
Thank you so much, yes i'd really like to have one internship in NA if possible, I feel like that's the only way i can ever succeed (and i want to work in astronautics), so i don't know what would i do if i didn't get the job i want.. Okay, if i want to get an internship in a company that makes ultralight airplanes (small company) can i ask them that if they can't give me one that they can atleast give me a tour at it,like having their engineer explain me what and how they do stuff there for that day? Because i'd love that,any knowledge is good.
I applied to a placement at Thales, and as soon as I submitted, they replied with an email on request to finish online aptitude assessment which I failed (all happened on the same day)despite practicing it for the past year of placement application process, and it feels like I am never gonna even get hired as I applied to over 70 placement and summer internships, only 3 got through to actual interview but were still rejected, what should I do?
Its been 3 year i just want to know how you are doing now, did you receive an internship after the end of your ?
@@Hmonks I didn't receive the internship, but got one during the summer, which was spent in Edmonton, Canada as a lab assistant/ intern for 3 months, then 12 months of placement year at a scientific instrument company focusing on use of optics, finishing my degree with my final year, and now 1 month my PhD involving in nanophotonics and metamaterial instrumentation
just curious ....what is the company's name ?
When it comes to internship how did you get experience to know to work on a hand-held printer if you possibly never worked on a printer in your life?
It was more of an arduino project and I took an entire class dedicated to projects using the arduino in school. Remember what the handheld printer was. It was an arduino, a sensor, some random electronics, and an ink cartridge. Although I didn't know about a handheld printer specifically, I had experience with most of the things that made it up.
How old were you when you got your internship? How did you find it online?
I was 20 years old when I got that internship. I literally googled "electrical engineering internships in san diego" which brought up the common job listing websites (indeed, monster, etc) and I applied to everything I qualified for.
MajorPrep By which month did you apply for your summer internship ?
I think I applied around December or January. I remember doing a lot of applications over winter break in late december but I continued applying even after we went back to school in January.
Majorprep can I get to know you personally? As in your fb account not the channel's account or your email address or even phone number ? I really could do with your help. Hope am not being a bother. Thanks
do they teach these stuff? because I'm coming from community college and haven't taken a single engineering course, nor have taken any programming lessons or anything. ?????
whant engineering major are you on and what year?
did you ever feel stuck or lost ? or you felt like giving up? if so how did you get passed that ?
Everyone has to go through that process. During that difficult time, it will determine who deserved to be an engineer and who is not. Since engineering is not for everyone.
Sorry if I offended anyone that reading this commend.
I like electrical engineering but find difficult to understand electronics.what should i do?
Keep learning about electronics. There are lots of topics on CZcams and blogs online and generally on the internet that you can teach yourself. Arduino is a good starting point if you want to learn basic practical knowledge. You learn current flow, voltages, resistor and Arduino specific programming.
Bravo ! I owe you a cup of Coffee ☕..😉
I'm looking forward to it! haha
Look at this guy, "I didn't have a high GPA, only a 3.8". Come on buddy, way to rub it in, but good job on that GPA though;) You know full well a 3.8 GPA is above the average.
He said "I did have a high gpa". Pay closer attention
Sausymayo I’ll reply, but your tone is being a jerk whereas mine was tongue in cheek. Sooo, fu.
No it's savage!
He's referring to his major GPA. This is different than overall GPA. Major GPA is based off of the classes you take that fall under the engineering umbrella, i.e. Statics, Mechanics of Solids, etc. vs. a public speaking class
Bigdog5400 Thanks for the information.👍🏻
Can you make a video on how to get into Genetic Engineering Research? It's a big field right now with CrispR and everything so I'd like to see how someone could get started into it
I'm a first year electrical student right now. Is it useful to learn aurdino now??
Your vedios r just amazing. They give me lot of information abt engineering. Thanks a lot
It's not a required for u in first year but play with arduino for now is fun and will make ur final year project much easier.
Can you get an internship with a GPA above 3.5? English Comp 2 fucked me with a B.
AN internship? Definitely.
YOU GOT PAID TO PLAY AROUND WITH AN ARDUINO!!
Thats like 3600!
Did you design the handheld printer itself or were you working with a team.
Pretty much all me, had help from my mentor during the internship though.
Which year do you suggest I apply for internship?
Your first year! You literally have nothing to lose by applying (besides some time lol). Chances are much lower of getting hired but who knows, I had friends apply their first year, got hired, and were getting paid very well.
Ok but in the first year we hardly know anything so will it affect my job?
It will have an affect, some companies will say you don't have enough experience. But if you get rejected from 50 companies and 1 accepts you then you have officially gotten an internship. They know where you're at and even as just a first year some companies will find stuff for you to do and it will be a lot of on the job learning. I didn't mention in this video but I asked a lot of questions during this project when I got stuck.
Oh ok.......thanks a lot for the help really appreciate it !
There are many people who intern at JPL the Summer following their freshman year so you have no excuse not to try. Also if you get that first internship, they're almost guaranteed to hire you as an intern for another 2 or 3 years.
7:07 pain...
Wow you can't get such a great internship with that salary in Germany
I don't know this as a fact but I'd imagine there's more competition for Any engineering position in Germany. It's a very engineering-oriented nation and culture.
Automation engineer please
Is that your major?
So you worked about 8 hours a day, while in college? Whaaaattt
David W it was a summer internship
Refer to the comment below. However, I know someone who does this with a semester credit load of 14 units. He's not a happy camper.
Anthony Oceguera right, that was in beginning of the video, totally forgot! thanks bro
look like this was an affricative action for quota ... TOTAL BS project. My opinion.