Aerospace Internship for International Undergrad.

threeofthree
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:32:34 +0000

My son is a 2nd semester freshman pre-Aero and just had his first co-op interview last week which he felt went very well. (That’s the best part to me - he was so excited about how well it went regardless of whether he gets an offer, he was pleased with the interview.) He is on spring break this week and has not heard anything from the company so he’s not sure if he will get an offer but it is a large company more in line with Mechanical Engineering. Although, some of the other aero students recommended students take an engineering co-op when it’s a good company and it is related to aero in some way, especially if you start as a freshman or summer after freshman year because you have later summers/semesters to intern with an aero company in his desired astronautics track and you then have engineering work experience on your resume. It seems they believe if its a good company - take the opportunity offered, especially if it’s an internship which is only 1 term whereas co-ops lock you in for 3 alternating semesters.

On a side note - he was also an IB student and the main interviewer (older gentleman) did not know what the IB program was (I guess career services suggested it be on his resume) but the other interviewer (kind of a 2 person panel) was a younger previous co-op and he was very familiar with the workload of IB Diploma students and was explaining the dedication it takes to succeed in the program to the older gentleman. Who knows - that could be a selling point even in college.