Internship interview

[Hacp]

Invest some time looking at the background of the company.

When the person doing the interview ask you "why do you want to work at acme" - you can answer, "since its founding in 1978, acme has been an industry leader in the manufacture of insulation. Founder John Doe had a simple motto <insert motto here>, and I would like to be part such an organization "

I think they'll ask more complicated questions than that in technical interviews.

 

[alkemyst]

wear a sweater and knee pads.

 

[Hacp]

Updated

 

[Ricemarine]

The only advice I think I can give is:
- Follow whatever you learned in your design project classes
- Make a gantt chart to stick to a schedule
- Always make it look like you did something
- Grind, grind away at those awful research papers.

 

[deadlyapp]

3 months really isn't too bad for a full design. Many of the things I've done at Cal Poly have been done over the course of a single quarter, and that includes brainstorming, concept designs, selection, and prototyping.

I suppose it depend on what its of and if you have any other people working, but it really shouldn't be that bad.

R&D is awesome, but I'll agree with you, searching for previous designs and doing patent searches is a pain in the ass and half the time results in nothing even vaguely useful to me.