Preparing For a Stress engineering Interview 1

[HawksOkeyoJr]

Hallo My fellow experienced Engineers, my request goes. I am currently trying to prepare for an Interview for a Position of a Stress Engineer in one of Airbus Suppliers company in Germany.
Its an Entry level Interview cause i still don't have much of the experience needed. For those with Experience out there, can you please help me out with some of the question you might put forward for somebody like me?.
I will highly appreciate some insight from your own perspectives. I really need this job and am working hard to leave nothing out even though some are always left untouched.

 

[dhengr]

Hawks:
Obviously, in today’s engineering world you have to have a good handle on CAD and various analysis and design software, but please don’t be totally dependent on them to express your engineering ideas. And, I’m not in the aircraft business, but I would want you to be articulate, be able to explain a problem in sufficient detail and think on your feet, and be able to discuss alternative approaches and solutions, we don’t always get the final solution on the first shot. I would want you to have good, young engineer, engineering fundamentals. That means study your Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Machine Design and Structural Analysis, Structural Materials, maybe a little Theory of Elasticity text books, to name a few. I don’t expect to have to tutor you or hold your hand on the basics of those subjects. I understand that you still have plenty to learn, much experience to gain, our ways of doing things (hopefully well reasoned) and our software preferences, etc. Be a quick learner, be willing to do some study and learning on your own time to show me your interest in your profession.

Research the company and have a few meaningful questions in that regard. Don’t make your first questions salary or how many vacation days. Be well attired, groomed and spoken. They don’t owe you anything, tell them and show them what you can bring to the game. Admit you have a lot to learn, don’t be ashamed of that as a young engineer, don’t dwell on that either, but do express some enthusiasm to learn and for the company and the opportunity.

Good Luck

 

[HawksOkeyoJr]

@ dhengr, that was something, thank you very much for those encouraging words, i will surely try to the best of my knowledge and stress the will to learn more and more.
Thank you. highly appreciated it.

Hawkins Okeyo

 

[WARose]

I’ve never interviewed for a job like that……but (being a structural engineer) I do get drawn into stress analysis occasionally (i.e. looking at plates with openings, two-way slabs modeled with plates and so on). Consequently a potential employer has quizzed me about my FEA knowledge before. Maybe fundamental questions like good aspect ratios for plate elements, what elements are best to model this and that, what is shear locking, failure criteria, etc, etc. I’ve never been asked developer type questions (i.e. numerical methods, shape functions, etc)…..just user end type stuff.

Good luck.

 

[dhengr]

BTW, all interviews involve some stress... engineering wise or otherwise.

 

[BAretired]

I don't think you can prepare for an interview by cramming at the last minute. You know what you know and if you don't know the answer to a question, it is probably better to simply admit to that fact and indicate you would have to review the theory rather than try to bluff your way through. If the interviewer knows his stuff, your bluff won't work.

BA