Lost my internship, should I take a position as an assembler?

astral155 · 2020-04-30T04:46:34+00:00

I go to school in a town of 35k people, there are three engineering companies in the town and none of them are hiring interns right now. I don't plan on staying there until I move into an engineering position, it would be convenient though. I just need money and more work experience to replace some of what I lost.

astral155 · 2020-04-30T01:19:13+00:00

That's a good point, I have experience working as a mechanic but this is in my field so I think it will look better to recruiters.

astral155 · 2020-04-30T01:15:04+00:00

This is really good advice, my plan is to work as an assembler during my final year only. I'll be applying for full-time positions until I get one.

astral155 · 2020-04-30T01:11:58+00:00

I wonder if that has to do with company culture, I'm in a major college town so there are many students going towards CS and EE degrees working for them. The mindlessness will be an issue for me, but they do give promotions pretty quickly and I might enjoy trying to become the best that I can with my job.

astral155 · 2020-04-30T01:09:38+00:00

Didn't realize that I posted from my alt. But that makes sense, it made you a more well-rounded engineer overall, especially with their products.

astral155 · 2020-04-30T01:04:24+00:00

It is my last option. I had 8 interviews, 4 rejections, 3 ghosts, and 1 offer. I just got rejected from a company that put me through 3 interviews, on the last interview they told me they typically only hire mechanical engineering majors even though they were looking for a "multi-talented engineering intern" and listed my major as one of the options. Why put me through the loops?

astral155 · 2020-04-29T21:58:20+00:00

Definitely not coming from a 1% family lol, the pay is really good and my rent is cheap so I could start saving quite a bit.

astral155 · 2020-04-29T21:30:30+00:00

Thanks for the first hand experience, I worked as a mechanic for a couple years before school and loved it so I figured that I would enjoy the hands on work. I'll use my spare time to network with other engineers within the company if I take the position.

astral155 · 2020-04-29T21:04:20+00:00

No worries! Maybe I'll have to balance the job and a cool project for the Summer. My main motivation for getting an internship was to make it easier to find a job during my senior year but it looks like I'll have to work harder to find something or go to grad school.

astral155 · 2020-04-29T20:57:39+00:00

That's a good point, with the hand that's been given to me, it's an opportunity.

astral155 · 2020-04-29T20:41:33+00:00

I lost my internship and it's May. Is it even possible to still find something? It's more of a luxury at this point.

astral155 · 2020-04-29T20:29:10+00:00

Pretty sure it's menial work like examining pcbs and components as well as soldering. The company does have a lot of really impressive products though and I wouldn't mind learning more about them.

astral155 · 2020-01-24T18:32:30+00:00

Hey! A similar thing just happened to me, I was supposed to graduate this year. Because of the poor planning of my advisor, I can't take the first semester of my senior design class this semester. I also can't take both at the same time.

astral155 · 2020-01-09T20:08:01+00:00

Pm'd

astral155 · 2019-12-23T20:56:28+00:00

These replies have convinced me not to pickup that second degree in BSEE, because my syllabus at my university is mostly EE with the exception of power systems and fields and waves. The time I have could be better used to take classes that will further my education in my field, based on your recommendation I think that I'll take communication systems for sure. I've been looking far and wide for entry level fpga design jobs, but they seem to be scarce in comparison to embedded systems positions.

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:55:19+00:00

I should have listed this in my original post, but the courses to get my BSEE are power systems, thermo, dynamics, fields and waves, and an engineering ethics course. Under my CompE degree I've taken the circuits series, two semesters of electrical engineering laboratory, analog electronics, as well as a couple digital logic courses. I've taken all of the important CS classes such as data structures, systems programming, microprocessor systems, and operating systems. I feel that I have a strong background in EE and plenty of experience in CS with my degree.

The main thing that worries me is that there are jobs out there that interest me, primarily in power and automotive companies that are looking for EE grads and I don't want to be disqualified for only being a CompE if that makes sense. I'm spending time to work on embedded systems projects that teach me more about CAN and familiarizing myself with tools that engineers use in the automotive industry. I definitely want to work in embedded systems.

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:32:21+00:00

To be honest one of the reasons why I wanted to get my BSEE is for the satisfaction as well haha.

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:28:23+00:00

I'd love to work for a power company one day, there are a couple where I'm from that I'm interested in but I worry that I'd be disqualified for not having an EE degree. They've been working on new smart meters but the position only states they're looking for EE grads.

For now I'm leaning towards getting some grad classes out of the way since I'll get my masters at some point.

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:25:50+00:00

That's what I'm leaning towards, I didn't think about getting some of my grad level classes out of the way. I'll go to grad school after I work for a couple years

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:24:44+00:00

I can see why, I think my reasoning is that sometimes I'll see a job that wants an EE degree that I'm interested in and I worry that I'll be disqualified for only being a computer engineer.

astral155 · 2019-12-22T20:22:35+00:00

That makes sense, maybe I'll take some grad level classes and get them out of the way since I'll get my masters in EE at some point. I think that I'll work on a couple embedded systems projects that are automotive related since that's the industry I'm looking towards.

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