To the ENGINEERS

>IEEE
what the fuck is that never heard of it at my uni... and we are considered a good uni...
either i missed it or i need to bring it to my uni.
can you elaborate the site seems vague

I've never had to work for free and you really shouldn't have to either. I need to reiterate: It is illegal for a company not to pay its interns almost everywhere. If you're unpaid it's volunteer work not a job. If someone offers you an unpaid internship it's probably best not to get involved with their bullshit. There's a lot of scams and idiots in the startup world.

thanks.

I was attempting to convince my friends to actually start a company. They want to stay away from the money aspect and want to do it for fun.

I told them if its complex like designing a basic exoskeleton... then it would be fine if we dont manufacture since our research and design phase would be enough to be added on our CV's but if its something that is basic such as an electric go kart then we need to monetize that into a business because building a go kart isnt special enough for companies to care

fuck alright then i guess you are right i wanted it to be a reason for companies to hire me since i would say im willing to work for free... but you are right it is illegal.

>can you elaborate the site seems vague
u wot m8

Dude, not OP, but you really should have heard of this institution if you're doing anything in tech

Pretty sure ASME/SAE is bigger.

Civil Engineer here, I got my job a few months after graduating mainly because I graduated in the fall semester and nobody was hiring new people until the summer.

What I found that mattered was having the ability to prove you aren't completely anti-social and proving you understand basic engineering concepts. I was asked questions like "How would you design a continuous beam?" "What path does this load take down this simple frame?" "Its late and you are in the office and get a call from an important client/the field that something has gone wrong, what do you do?"

I worked my entire college experience, (unrelated to my career), had a undergraduate research experience over my last summer, and took part in the engineering clubs. Lastly I was a B student.

Your real trick to getting a job is applying everywhere and taking any interview you get. I applied to nearly every state DoT, countless engineering firms, a number of contractors who hire engineers, and so on. I would apply to anything, took my electives in structures but I would apply to geotech, environmental, traffic, highways, and so on. Be willing to move and be willing keep applying and you will get a job.

Lastly, if you lack a lot of nice resume things, spam at lower tier stuff to simply get experience because that is all people care about.

Also take the FE if you didn't. Doesn't matter what field of engineering you are, take it and pass it. HR departments love that.

connections really.

>If you can get a year round internship (while enrolled in classes) then you have to fuck up bad to not get a job after graduation
>Internship/work experience should be the absolute most important thing
Would you say this even if your internships are unrelated to the field you want to get into?
I'm I've been in an internship for about six months now, and I will stay there in the next semester, which happens to be my last semester before I finish my major. The thing is that I want to get into a field completely unrelated to the one where I'm an intern, and thus I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be wiser to quit my internship and get some research experience in the field I'm interested in.
>inb4 why didn't you get an internship in that field
I tried but I couldn't.