r/EngineeringStudents

I got a degree in Civil Engineering in 2024 without any internships or anything. I took a year off to try and find a job with no luck so ended up doing the Masters route in Structural engineering part time while I work as a bartender except I’m having so much trouble finding internships/entry level jobs. I’m currently scheduled to take my FE exam in october but i’m worried that I basically have nothing on my resume, I’ve had about 3 interviews but no luck. Unfortunately during undergrad I wasn’t the most invested student but now that i’m in my masters program I feel like i’m super behind. Is there any advice/recommendations anyone could help me with? Will I have more luck once I pass the FE exam?

I am about to finish my Junior year of Aerospace Engineering and it feels like every single semester there is atleast one class that basically takes something I spent months practicing previously and tell me that's actually bad and would never be used in industry or resaearch. Then goes on to show me a more complete version and inevitably this too will be replaced using the exact same phrase of "nobody would ever use this".

Is there a point in which these classes do teach me something i could theoretically turn around and use without needing to worry about some obscure version of the course work being the actual form required? I will happily go all the way to PhD if i need to but i am at the point where i literally don't trust my own knowledge because of how many times i was taught sonething and told it was terrible by the next level course.

Edit: Grammar

Free perpetual license and is basically a standalone Mathcad alternative that doesn't suck. So far I have used it for some simple hand calcs but could see this being useful for other engineers and students. Made by a engineering professor and supports multiple file types and especially python. Only downside is you can't import .mcdx.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPaperXYZ/comments/1v2tfwg/engineeringpaperpro_released/

Questions (For more info/context read below):

Do I spend my free time improving my chances with being a engineer (internships, certifications, etc.) or do I spend it pursuing a passion of YT, risking being unemployable?

Will it really be that hard to get a job with no experience?

Is it worth being kinda miserable to be successful? Or is it better to save time to make myself happy, even though its uncertain of the outcome?

I'm going into my sophomore year and realized that I have no true passion for engineering. I see everyone else talking about doing projects, enjoying coding, and doing all sorts of engineering things in their free time whereas I just want to avoid it and forget about it whenever I have free time.

The thing is that IDK what else to do really. I don't really want to leave it as it seems like a big risk and I have no other passion that needs a degree. Right now I plan on just grinding the degree out, even if it is with no experience, no internships, etc., I feel like I can push through and just get the degree with a good GPA (finished freshman year with 4.0, hoping to keep it high).

My real passion is in a more creative field, and as much as its uncertain, making YT videos has been fun for as long as I can remember. Recently I feel driven to make something out of it, but I'm stuck in between two minds as I am about to go back to school and will struggle with time.

I see all kinds of things saying its essential to join clubs, be involved, get internships, etc., but as a commuter, all I want to do is get home, study to keep my good grades, and work on YT. I just have no drive whatsoever to try and improve for engineering. So my question is:

Do I spend my free time improving my chances with being a engineer (internships, certifications, etc.) or do I spend it pursuing a passion of YT, risking being unemployable?

I have:

- One internship/job I did in HS (not engineering, about wiring and setup for classrooms, speaker,
mic, smartboard, etc.)

- Two projects (A Capstone in HS and one in Uni; both engineering based),

- Two summers of normal work at a pool maintenance company.

If anyone can relate in any way, Id appreciate some advice.

Thanks.

someone was telling me even if I land internships and other engineering jobs and experience that SpaceX will always disqualify me for having a complete shit GPA (2.5). Is that true, because that is my dream to make it there one day, and if I can't well I better start accepting it earlier than later. They said to me "Unless you build your own macro scale rocket and launch it with people inside to Mars, they won't hire you".

I'm starting my engineering journey soon and wondering whats the best keyboard and wireless mouse I can use that is also cheap enough and efficient in engineering studies.

Been in and out of school for both money and grade reasons. If I go back I only need 4 classes to graduate with mechanical engineering tech from an ABET accredited university. I have no relevant experience and am in my mid thirties. Should I make one last try at it. If I do well and get a decent job I would like to come back to raise my grade and also get just mech eng. I have already taken allot of the classes for that as well and would only need another 4 classes pluss my GPA within the specified range.

My grades have slipped due to work and money. The material is withing my grasps I just hadn't devoted enough time and projects and labs suffered 2. But if I can take just 2 per semester I know I can begin to Rais my GRADE.

I JUST WORRy at my age and lack of experience am I going for a fruitless goal.

Basically title. Why would something like this happen? I get I might not be accepted but 2 days after it opened is kind of ridiculous. Was I auto filtered out by AI or something? this is for a large company by the way.

I am a first year and my scholarship requires me to maintain a 3.5. I really want to join formula sae because I find it super interesting and I know it looks good on resumes, but I also know it’s very time consuming. Since I’m a girl, I also want to be on sorority to meet girls while also maintaining a relationship w my boyfriend. Can I do this?

Next week is a semester I have been worried about for a long time. Everyone Ik including professoers and smart TA's have told me it was the most intensive semester. I have tried to prepare for it on summer by going thru a few of the easier things. My plan was to go thru one whole course that I absolutely need to pass for prerequisite purposes which I didn't do because I also wanted to work on my portfolio. Besides I am behind due to me having to take a step back from school a big portion of last year due to sickness. That is to say I am not going to graduate on time, my schedule is complicated as I have been forced to replan it. There are tons of other things I need to do in order to graduate even a semester later. Don't wanna bore you with the detail. Rn as I am sitting, I can't stop worrying. Should I study more or chill until monday?

I have an upcoming interview with SpaceX Starlink for a New Grad Mechanical Engineer position. Has anyone here gone through the technical interview process and would be willing to share what kinds of technical questions I should expect?

I’d also really appreciate any tips on preparing for the technical and behavioral questions. Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello everyone, i am student who wants to know how the Ai/ML field is doing right now. I heard the pay can be very good depending on skill and experience. I will get to a french engineering school next year. I would love to know any additional information on this field and its salary. Would my path to a frontier Ai company, with enough discipline, be realistic ?

I want to go into Oil and Gas after uni but idk how good materials eng is for OG, any thoughts?

I’m about to enter my freshman year of college and was wondering if my goal is to be able to work on engineering projects as soon as possible would it be better for me to take python or engineering graphics first?

So, for a little context, I'm not American nor do I live in America, so maybe it'll be difficult for some of you to understand the situation. But basically, I've always wanted to be an engineer since I was a kid, and specifically, I wanted to be a mechanical engineer because I like maths and machines and stuff, the usual.

However, I just discovered that the "mechanical engineering" degree doesn't exist ANYWHERE near my location, which is weird because there are "good" universities around, but the thing is: the only similar option is electromechanical engineering, and I really don't know if the degree is worth it, most people consider it more something you work of rather than something you graduate of, so, I'd like some advice, really.

Yesterday I received a return offer from a pretty well known company for another internship next summer. However, the deadline for this is October 1st which is also the date of my school’s career fair. I’m not exactly passionate about the field the internship is in and am considering other paths in ME since this is more CE. Should I accept this offer to have a guaranteed internship for next summer or take a leap of faith and say no as to not burn that bridge if I can’t score a job post-grad? I enjoyed this summer’s internship and would have a career in this field but I also believed I could find something I enjoy more.

So I (19, UK located) am beginning my first year of university in a month. I have been studying engineering in college since I was 15 (part time course while still in school) and have a solid understanding of CNC, CAD, material selection and quality management, production planning as well as solid workshop skills.

I'm going on to study a course in manufacturing engineering which also has management modules. Now it should be said that I am going to fight through university regardless of the answer to this post, as I already know what the next 4-5 years of my life will look like - deprived of fun, sleep and I can guarantee my evenings will be either studying or applying for work placements/internships/graduate jobs.

Now I think everyone in the UK who is my age and a little older understands the struggle of finding a job, every employer wants experience and no employers are willing to get you that experience. For the most part my generation has been relegated to dead-end fast food jobs and stacking shelves in supermarkets, I've watched it happen in my own part time work. I myself have accepted that the likelihood is that I will never be rich and wherever I end up will likely be dead-end with little to no prospects of branching out, that's the way the cookie crumbles but I truly believe some dead-ends are better than others.

I have no doubts that somewhere in this subreddit is a UK based engineer who's done manufacturing and went to uni, and that person is in a good spot having fought through our modern job market. I'm asking this question with hopes of pure honesty, no sugarcoating. How bad is it out there? What more can I do with my studies to improve my employability and chances of getting some work experience whilst in university and a full time job outside of university?

I'm going into my third year(5 years in total) of Computer Engineering at a well-known Canadian university(idk if this even matters). I genuinely love the field, especially programming, AI and cybersecurity, and I'm also interested in exploring the hardware side.

I recently completed my first co-op at a small healthcare software company, where I built an AI agent using RAG, Python, PostgreSQL and pgvector, embeddings, local LLMs with Ollama, Docker and Linux.

I started with basic programming experience and almost no AI knowledge, so I learned most of it from scratch through research, tutorials, experimentation and AI itself. I always tried to understand what I was building rather than simply generate solutions, while also improving my programming skills.

Being at a small company gave me a lot of flexibility and ownership. My employer trusted me to research, experiment and figure things out independently. That helped me discover what I'm capable of, and I've now been offered the opportunity to stay.

I have three main questions:

1. Programming: With AI improving this quickly, how important is it for students to still become genuinely strong programmers rather than relying heavily on AI?

2. Co-op: Would you stay with an employer you genuinely like if your next project would likely be another AI agent using a similar stack? I know going deeper could strengthen my programming and technical skills, but would another 8 months of depth be more valuable than exploring something different like hardware, research or another technical environment? I will have a chat with an employer from an Electrical Engineering company tomorrow so I want to have an idea to Whether look into it as an opportunity to discover hardware or not.

3. Computer Engineering: Would you still choose CompE today? What areas would you focus on to prepare for the next 5-15 years?

I've considered Electrical Engineering because of concerns about AI, but the truth is that I'm much more interested in Computer Engineering. I love what I'm studying. I just want to make thoughtful decisions while I still have the opportunity to explore.

I'd really appreciate realistic advice from people working in the field.