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| MauriceT:
Hello, I am going into my junior year of electrical and computer engineering with no internship experience related to my degree. I am becoming very worried about how I will fare against competition due to having no relevant work experience in electrical engineering. I was wondering if anybody here has any tips on how I could improve my chances of landing an internship next summer. I currently have several ideas, but just wanted outside opinions from people who may be more experienced than me. My current plan is to take online courses to improve technical knowledge or to start a personal project. If I hope on going into a career in hardware engineering, what online course topics would be most helpful? And also if there are any other suggestions for improving my resume and skills I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: MauriceT on July 17, 2020, 07:00:38 pm ---I am going into my junior year of electrical and computer engineering with no internship experience related to my degree. --- End quote --- Can you explain in more detail what you mean? If you have a degree you seem to be using the term "junior" in a very specific way that won't mean a lot to most of us. |
| Weston:
Do an EE related project and document it somewhere online (github, hackaday.io, hackster, flicker, etc.). Preferably something that requires you to design your own PCB. It does not need to be that contrived, but possible examples are a small tesla coil, some sort of LED / nixie tube clock, robot arm, audio amplifier. For the majority of every EE interview I ever had for internships they asked me about my projects, I even have a section on my resume highlighting some and linking to github and some photo albums on flickr. Independent projects are a great way to demonstrate competency |
| james_s:
Doesn't your university have a program to help you find an internship? I'd have thought they would have resources to help you put together a resume as well. Starting out is often a classic chicken & egg problem where you need experience and connections to get a job but you need a job to get experience and connections. |
| RoGeorge:
You don't need ways to improve resume. You need hands on experience. Do EE related projects you can do by yourself. It doesn't have to be anything glorious, or groundbreaking, or perfect, or even finished. Just that they have to be made by yourself. Upload a few photos of each project, write some explanations, document the projects, keep some activity logs with weekly progress for bigger projects. Show a few key stages, not just the final object like it will be a commercial. Make a blog page or create an account on some makers platform, and upload your work. Choose a free platform, like wordpress.com, or instructable.com, or hackaday.com, or anything alike. If you already have projects posted in forums or other online places, link to them. If you tinkered before but never published, make some pics, add some description, and upload what you worked. In most of the places, projects alone will weight more than diploma, will put you in front of other competitors, will give you experience, and will teach you a lot of things that can not be learned other than by doing them. Good luck! :-+ |
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