Engineering Internships

RousedWitsYou gotta build the network. I guarantee, your professors are basically in cahoots with engineering companies, they know each other.

Id talk to either professors, or engineering advisors at your school. If you get to know them, at the very least you can get a recommendation, Which is extremely powerful.

Hang loose and good luck!

Tater.TotsOne of my homies is in the engineering department at CU he keeps talking about a big engineering career fair happening on campus on Monday so I would try to find some information on that. Other wise building a network and recommendations is your best way into a field.

TheBigAppleA 4.0 and president of your undergraduate engineering society will do it.

-RobertIdentify as a girl....or anything besides a white male for that matter and you should be set.

JayRichUpvote. Unfortunately true

californiagrownWhy is that unfortunate? Do you believe men and women bring the same qualities to a workplace?

JayRichYeah, I believe that they do. Whoever can do the tasks required of the position best should get the job, regardless of gender. I was just agreeing with him that being a white male can work against you now. I wasn't really taking it that seriously lol.

J_BergCurrently going to CU and things are starting to formulate with my Engineering degree. Anyway, trying to not have to work minimum wage/landscaping next summer and shooting for an internship.

Anybody out there have a recommendation for best ways to go about landing an internship? Applications? Solid companies? Past experience? Any and all input is much appreciated.

Take it easy

Dennis_ReynoIdsJust a friendly tid bit of advice,

you can actually just sue a company if they dont hire you after the internship. Assuming there's no legitimate reason. If you do anything that could be considered the job of a current employee there, you could also sue.

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PoLaRpEaKThis is completely false. You are a fucking idiot. No company has an obligation to hire you after an internship. That's the whole point of them. To assess you as an employee. If they don't like you for whatever reason, you won't get hired back.

You do whatever work they assign you, even if it overlaps with other employees duties. That's the fucking point of internships lol, you are a retard.

Dennis_ReynoIdsJust a friendly tid bit of advice,

you can actually just sue a company if they dont hire you after the internship. Assuming there's no legitimate reason. If you do anything that could be considered the job of a current employee there, you could also sue.

ily america

CaseyApply to all the city governments, county, state DOT, utility districts, etc that you can think of. We have 3 or 4 engineering interns the bosses love them they work for dirt cheap.

DirtYStylE. So if you want the cash flow you should just get a summer job.

TOAST.I'd say any company worth interning at pays at least as much as a summer job, unless you have a really good summer job.

Iliveinutahjust posting because im in aerospace at CU!! anyhow i dont know shit about internships yet but fuck ya GO BUFFS

MugjumperGo to the career fair, and get to know people. What kind of engineering are you in? My recommendation is national labs if you like doing hands on and crazy stuff. They have a lot of money to spend and are willing to roll the dice on lots of interns with little or no experience. You might not make as much as industry but the work is more exciting becuase its not just manufacturing, its more research and development. Also national labs are close to the mountains, and skiing. Check out Sandia National Lab, Los Alamos National lab, or Idaho National lab.