Hi everyone!

I'm currently a second year aerospace engineering student and I am applying for placements. The problem is, I am struggling to decide whether I want to go for a summer placement or a year long placement? Currently I want to apply for summer placements as it means I graduate a year earlier but I fear it is valued less than a year long placement as it is shorter.

Thanks!

I have one of the highest GPAs in my course but I'm not sure if it's really worth it. I spend a lot of time studying, understanding content, making sure I know it best I can.

The opportunity cost is that I have a lot less time to work on solo projects that I am interested in and build my engineering portfolio.

Another one is that I have a lot less time that most of my peers.

I've heard from most people in the industry that at the end of the day, the grades you get in uni don't matter that much. While online, I see so many people stressing hard about it.

Anything anyone can say on this is really appreciated,

Thanks!

I don’t know what else to do. I’ve been applying for internships and still either get ghosted or rejected. I don’t know what else to do. I did extra curriculars and still I haven’t gotten anything. I’ve had my resume looked at so many times to the point where I’ve changed it probably 5 times already and still I’m not getting anything. I’m not even getting any interviews. I feel like at this point I’m just screwed and wasting my time getting my degree.

Hi everyone, I'm starting my EE degree next February. Seeing how fast ai is growing, I'm a bit anxious that basic tasks for junior engineers will be automated by the time I graduate and making the entry-level bar much higher.
Do you think it will be harder for new grads to get hired in 4 years, and what should I focus on in uni to stand out? Thanks!

Alright so yesterday in my engineering class we are starting to discuss insulation and we had a project where you have to make a box and insulate it so we did and we used hand warmers so after we were done with that me and a few other people decided to take one of the insulated boxes put 4-7 chemical hand warmer packets in there and because it was foam and cotton we put a thermometer in and we got the thing to peak at 56 degrees Celsius or 132 degrees farighnight we did have to destroy it because it was getting way to warm to just let it cool down and somehow we got those hand warmers to experience something similar to thermal runway. Oh the image I attached above was from when we got the Celsius reading back sorry i couldn’t put an image of the box.

hi! i am in my second year of Mechanical engineering. in my first year i failed 2 courses. I retook those over the summer. My gpa so bad rn. Everyone i talk to have a gpa that's more than 3.00. i just feel tired now. I loved engineering , everything about it. I still do enjoy the content, For some reason, I feel like I am not doing anything properly. I am just so so tired . i really don't know what i should do to do better in my life. It just feels like I am stranded in an island in the middle of nowhere and the sun never rises there. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you for reading this.

I'm a community college student planning to transfer to UCLA or UCI for Fall 2027, and I'm struggling to choose a major. I've already declared TAG civil engineering.

I want a career that pays well (ideally $150k+ as I gain experience), encourages innovation, has good ethics and work-life balance, and lets me create and design things rather than just do calculations all day. It's part of the reason why companies like Apple entice me.

I'm torn between:

• Mechanical engineering: Computer hardware, product design, CAD, SolidWorks, and physical prototyping. I recently found Apple's Concept Prototyping Engineer role, and it sounds like my dream job.
• Civil/structural engineering: Designing beautiful homes, buildings, shelters, and sustainable spaces. I've loved architecture for years, but I'm concerned about compensation and career flexibility. Hence, why I chose CE. I'd be open to structural, environmental, or project management.
• UI/UX design: Creating intuitive, enjoyable experiences with technology.

I don't expect to know everything after college. I want a strong foundation and employers willing to teach me and help me grown. I know for certain CS is out of the picture. I do not care for AI development.

SO MY QUESTION IS:

What route and decisions must I do that will grow me the skills necessary for all three career routes? Will CE provide that foundational flexibility, or will it keep me locked into jobs specific to CE? Is it better to do ME in that case or is it the same thing where an ME will remain strictly an ME.

Those who have done career switches, how hard was it? I mean theoretically I am thinking to just get to bachelor degrees with CE and ME... but time and money is also a constraint. I'd love advice from people with actual industry experience. I want to find a career that combines creativity, financial security, and meaningful work without feeling like I'm giving up half my interests.

If I could, I would love a major that's hybridize but that's simply not a thing. I am torn because I'm afraid that what I choose today will lock me out and disqualify me from other career routes i'm interested in. Ideally, I want to learn enough where when it comes time to apply for jobs I can be a good candidate within these roles I feel I'd enjoy.

i've been struggling with deadlines and projects for so long and it only got worse this semester. something bad happened and boom it knocked me off course for weeks on end, i couldn't focus at all on my school work, didn't have the energy to go to class because i couldn't sleep at all the night before, and just devoted all my time for a little bit to internship application just to feel like i'm doing something despite knowing i'm entirely unqualified. and when i finally felt awake enough to focus on schoolwork again, it's just test after test and deadlines after deadlines and i just missed the submission of a project i could've finished 2 weeks ago because of technical issues. i feel so fucking ashamed and anxious and horrible man my grades tanked and my gpa has been below 3.0 for a while now and a lot of these classes i can't even retake without pushing my graduation back even further and all i can think about now is how the hell am i supposed to get employed now. god what the fuck like i started this semester with a whole homework tracker on excel and was attending club meetings and now i feel like shit and barely keep in contact with my classmates because i stopped attending classes just to study for them. i know there's a month left in the semester to change things around but i don't even know how to at the rate i'm going. i know there's a solution to this of course but right now my brain has just basically gone offline like holy fuck what am i even doing. i wanted to go talk to my professors last week about my performance and it completely slipped my mind and now i missed a major project deadline. what do i even say to my prof at this point? god what the fuckkkkkkk

Might be unrelated to the purpose of this subreddit, but I’d really appreciate some advice.

So, I’m a 17-year-old guy who absolutely loves mechanics. I’m genuinely obsessed with mechanical systems and the engineering behind basically every historical piece of technology I come across.

For a while now, I’ve been imagining and designing my own projects on paper—sometimes trying to improve existing systems, sometimes coming up with completely new ones. Eventually, I’d like to use engineering to tackle a major problem in my country. I mostly do this simply because I love the process of thinking about how things work and how they could be made better.

The problem is that, even though these ideas currently never leave the pages of my notebooks, I still hold onto them pretty firmly. I really want to bring some of them to life someday.

I’m currently a 12th-grade student, and I’m planning to pursue mechanical engineering at Stanford because that’s the path I’m dreaming of. But honestly, I’m scared that I won’t be able to build the company I envision.

I sometimes think that no matter how good or original my ideas are, there’s probably someone else somewhere who has already thought of the same thing. And I also know that I don’t want to spend my entire career sitting behind a desk or end up doing a job that has nothing to do with the kind of engineering I actually love.

So I wanted to ask you guys: How do you deal with this fear? Have any of you had big ideas or ambitions when you were young and then worried that they would never become reality? And if so, how did you actually go from having ideas on paper to building things in the real world?

I know circuits 1 is generally considered an easy class, but I am struggling with it nonetheless.

The semester started out pretty easy, components, KVL/KCL equivalent resistance/capacitance/inductance, parallel/series connections. Then we got to mesh analysis which I'm mostly ok with, but got totally lost at Nodal analysis. Then I proceeded to get further lost on Norton/Thevenin equivalence, superposition, and now RC/RL circuits. Now that I let myself slide so far and there's a midterm a bit under a week I do not even know where to start.

I've watched countless videos but none of them make sense. I pretty much need to grasp something intuitively to understand something and most of these equations make no sense to me. For example in nodal analysis/Thevenin equivalents I cannot for the life of me understand why the voltage by the open nodes is 0.

I got an 85 on the first midterm (due to the heavy curve, my true score was likely a 70) and there's another coming up this Thursday.

Ik that after uni it's designing moving bodies but what jobs do interns do when they're at their co-op job.

I'm in grade 12 btw.

Registration for next semester is coming up, and I’m thinking of taking these classes as a sophomore civil engineer: Statics, Geology for Engineers, Calculus III, Physics II, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. For some reason at my university, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra are offered as one combined course, so i think that might be my hardest class. Does this sound like a manageable schedule, or do I need to drop one of the math course and maybe take it in the summer ? I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who’s taken a similar course load. I think it shouldn't be that bad because its only 16 credit hr and I'm also a full time student and wont work this upcoming this smstr.

Hello Engineering Students,
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on figuring out what to concentrate/focus on when the time comes? I have so many interests and am having a hard time finding a specific focus that calls to me. How did you all figure out what you wanted to focus on? Did it just come to you throughout school or did you go into the program knowing what your exact plan was?

Hey guys, i need an advice.I am studying on my 2nd year in ***** university as an international student. Problem is they teach in traditional chinese and i don’t speak chinese. But the exam is in english which means i have to learn everything by myself. For example reading books,using AI,watching videos online. But i can tell it is really hard.You spend half of the day to sit in the class which you don’t understand then go study everything by yourself.Next problem,i have scholarship, i can’t lower my gpa under 70 by failing on course. Then i can’t study here.If i can’t study here i have to go back to my own country which is surrounded by full of abusive toxic people with no own home and no university education then i have to work to pay my living expenses.And i don’t want to give up easily. I know that i might regret if i give up for ChemE. And i decided to study hard, but i literally don’t understand anything because i kinda cheated on exams to not lose my scholarship.Now i am stuck between core knowledge , advanced knowledge in math, chemistry,physics. should i keep trying hard to learn those hard subjects on english by myself? Or give up and study in different major? or wait until how far i can go? i really don’t know, and i cried a lot of days just because i keep repeating words “i can study, i can get high score, i can graduate”. And i watched videos online engineering and get hope from them but the problems still in there. Comparing to my friends they are studying well on top universities and i am who took 2,3 years of gap to come here failing on courses felt hard.And i also have to pay rent, living expenses in here, i can’t just focus on only courses. I have big dreams to travel and do something exciting.Living in here sometimes feels like prison, like putting myself in hard situations. But it’s better than another options. And my parents can’t pay tuition, also they believe that i am being well, i can study. Of course I don’t want to lose their hope. What do you suggest? Which way is better choice? Should i sacrifice all my social life , dreams,happiness and time to study ChemE? Is it really gonna worth this much? I am not sure if i work as a chemical engineer.

Hey!

I'm in an applied mechanical engineering undergrad program, and as a part of my grade we have to measure the performances of a device, such as, in my case... a damn screwdriver.

And I thought I was very smart to use torque wrenches to measure it because "hey it's definitily gonna work, i've a range of 2Nm to 50Nm, aint no way it doesn't work"

And it doesn't. The screwdriver's mechanism directly derails no matter what value I set on my torque wrench. And it's damn graded, i've to send videos and so on before the end of my vacation (which is next monday).

So if you guys have any idea of how on earth I can measure the torque before monday I would be very very very glad thank you very much !

ps : I can't find my screwdriver on the internet except on one secondhand resale website, and the guy says it has a torque of 30Nm, which is like absolutely in the range of my torque wrenches....

Interested in:
Construction management
Construction engineering
Civil engineering
Architecture

Trying to apply to this thing which would help get into uni but I've recently realized that the only thing I have going for me is my grades and grades are the bare minimum for stuff like this. Is there anything impressive I can do in 5 months (that's when applications are due) that I can put on to make me seem more impressive? Anything mechanical or physics related mainly.

How does this compare to the first one? In the first it was with a manger and he just asked about one project and based all his technicals on that.

Given how rapidly AI is influencing every industry, what is your perspective on Electrical Engineering (EE) versus Computer Science (CS)?

Specifically, how will the market demand for these two degrees look in Pakistan and abroad by 2030? If someone graduates from a top university, which one provides more long-term stability, higher earning potential, and better flexibility if you want to transition into other fields down the line?

My hardest courses this semester are Machine Design and Mechanics of Materials 2, and my prerequisites are shaky, so for the past week I've been studying with an AI agent called Muse instead of a regular chatbot window.

The difference that actually matters: it remembers. It knows which chapters I've covered, builds me full lessons with worked examples and quizzes, and when I send a photo of a problem it works through it step by step instead of just dropping a final answer. It also has its own computer, so it keeps my files and picks up exactly where we left off.

What hasn't worked: I still have to check its numbers. It has produced confident mistakes that I only caught by redoing the calculations myself. And if I let it do the thinking, I learn nothing — the quizzes are what force me to actually engage.

Curious how other engineering students here are using AI for studying: as a tutor, an answer machine, or not at all because your professors ban it?

Hi,
We are currently working on an assignment for our studies.
We need to design a measurement setup that can accurately determine the thickness of a skin graft during a skin transplantation procedure, for medical purposes.

We are currently considering using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a technique that employs an infrared laser to perform highly precise thickness scans of tissues such as the skin or the retina. We want to explore whether this measurement method can be adapted to calculate the thickness of a skin graft and, subsequently, be integrated into a functional measurement setup.

Our professor has specified several requirements: the setup must be cleanable, capable of precise measurements (down to 0.05 mm), provide repeatable results, and be non-destructive. In other words, the skin graft must be measured during the transplantation procedure while remaining suitable for subsequent use.

If anyone could offer guidance or suggestions on how to approach this project, it would be greatly appreciated, as we are currently feeling a bit stuck.

I'm a sophmore meche student and my internship search hasn't been going to well this semester partly due to me fooling around my freshmen year. I'll keep applying to both mainstream and more local firms however I had a question about what I could do if I don't get an internship. In the event I don't get one, would working at a machine/cnc shop or a manufacturing internship be a viable alternative? If so, how much worse or perhaps better would it look on my resume for future internships and jobs? I've seen alot of people on this sub praising manufacturing internships but not as much on machine shops. Thanks in advance

hey, i submitted a post on this channel last week and it absolutely blew up. we had so many applications go through. a bunch of the job postings shut down in the days following my post because of the large influx of applications that were going in. i've gone ahead and updated the job links in this new link. please make sure to apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is at the top of the pile. i've pulled the freshest job postings that i could.

engineering internships are scattered across hundreds of company career pages, so i pulled them into free lists:

• engineering internships, all fields (444): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Hiring-Now/blob/main/lists/engineering-internships.md
  • 444 at 206 US companies (Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, GM, Allison Transmission, Micron, NVIDIA, Johnson & Johnson, Granite Construction, HNTB, Sierra Nevada Corporation)
  • about 87 electrical and 73 mechanical; 126 at employers with a visa sponsorship record
• mechanical engineering internships (159): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Mechanical-Engineering-Internships
• electrical engineering internships (143): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Electrical-Engineering-Internships
• aerospace engineering internships (50): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Aerospace-Engineering-Internships
• new grad mechanical, manufacturing and design jobs (167): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Mechanical-Manufacturing-Design-New-Grad-Jobs
• every summer 2027 internship we're tracking, all fields (7,271): https://github.com/mehek-builds/Summer2027-Internships

posting date on every row, rebuilt every monday.

comment which field you're looking for and i'll send you a list for it.

I've realized this throughout my semesters (still in engineering), you can study 1 week prior for a quiz, solve questions until your eyes pop out, then there's this person who studied the day before the exam and gets a better mark than you, the feeling sucks.