melone: While I told my interviewer what type of work I'd be interested in doing, I never used the word "expect." For that reason, had GE originally approached me with the Cost Out job I mentioned above, I wouldn't have held it against them. (I would've even accepted their offer if nothing...
melone: rather than take the bait here, let me just say that I currently lack the experience necessary to correctly identify "real engineering work," and I would not be able to do it if I happened upon it. I wasn't trying to project a sense of entitlement, nor to downplay the work that an...
Thank you all for your input. I hope I haven't come off as ungrateful; I was simply upset because I selected this internship over other opportunities on the basis of the job description (which, in retrospect, may have been unwise).
The good news is, everything seems to have been worked out. I...
I'm a Mechanical Engineering Masters student with a background in mechatronics and embedded systems. During the fall, I pursued a number of internship positions and in October received an offer from General Electric Consumer & Industrial in Louisville, Kentucky. Along with this, I was given...
metengr: At my university, we have both undergraduate and graduate CoOp programs. In the undergraduate program, the student typically works three semesters for a company (one on, one off), receives class credit, and delays graduation for about a year. In the graduate program, the student works...
IRstuff: That's a great suggestion. I will look for a CoOp that ties into my research. That might also help make the idea more palatable to my advisor.
Greg: That was my thinking, as well, regarding my Physics degree. The problem is probably compounded by the fact that I'm in the mechatronics...
I have a B.S. in Physics and am halfway through an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. My grades are good and I've conducted a fair amount of research as a student, but I've never participated in a CoOp or internship. In talking to other students, I've come to the conclusion that my lack of "real...
