Hi everyone, I’m an aerospace engineering student at UCF looking to improve my chances of landing an internship. I’ve been working on personal engineering projects outside of class, including a SOLIDWORKS UAV wing (photo attached) where I modeled a NACA 2412 wing, designed the internal structure, did basic structural calculations, and iterated the spars to reduce weight.

I’m trying to build a stronger portfolio and get more hands-on experience. For those working in aerospace/mechanical engineering, what would you recommend I focus on next? Are projects like this useful when applying for internships, and what skills or projects helped you land your first engineering internship?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Note: Photo of project does not represent a finished product, only a progress rep

Hi all,

I just got laid off without notice from my current job. Rather than wallow in self-misery, I decided to get started on the grind asap. I'm looking for any open controls, automation, or robotics engineering roles in the Philadelphia area.

Basically what the title says. My original post of the resume didn't get much feedback. Notified of layoff 5 months ago, officially laid off 2 months ago. Since layoff it's been mainly crickets. Last week I made some changes (reducing spill into the next line, removing periods, shifting skills section down, creating a templated cover letter with this resume's style that I quickly tailor for each app). I wonder if it's the lack of owned projects/leadership showing as firmly mid-level and not senior that is getting no traction. Could it be the lack of AI experience that's getting no traction? Seems like for a lot of job postings, I am on the cusp of mid-level/senior. Would appreciate the extra eyes and feedback on the resume itself, or other things that I could do!

Details, feel free to comment on these too:

- US Citizen

- SoCal area (OC/LA) - applying locally and remote, not relocating right now

- primarily backend experience, but am applying for full stack here and there

- initially received a couple of coding assessments and phone screens 3-5 months ago, haven't gotten any hits for the past couple of months

I'm a junior Mechanical Engineering student with a Computer Science minor graduating in May 2028. I'm currently searching for Summer 2027 internships in robotics, automotive, autonomous systems, mechatronics, mechanical design, and related roles. I'm primarily targeting companies in the U.S. and am willing to relocate for the summer.

This semester, I joined a humanoid/biorobotics research lab where I'll be working on ground and humanoid robotics. Outside of work and research, I've been building projects involving embedded controls, PID control, mechanical design, and robotic actuators.

Long term, I'm especially interested in robotics and autonomous systems. My university recently introduced a robotics master's program, which I'm considering pursuing after my B.S.

I'd appreciate feedback on my bullet points, technical skills, project selection, and whether I'm quantifying my internship experience effectively. I'm beginning my Summer 2027 applications now, so I'm primarily looking to fine-tune the resume before applying more heavily this fall.

I recently graduated in May with my master's and have been applying to jobs since then. Mainly applying to jobs in design, aerospace, manufacturing/automation, and research that I find interesting. Location-wise I am trying to be on the east coast but could expand my search if needed. I have sent a total of 40 applications but only managed to get one interview, which I had to reach out to the hiring manager for. I have already made changes based on this subreddit and feel like it is decent. Given I have a master's from a pretty well known university, have a decent GPA, and was one of the major contributors on the solar racing team, I was expecting a little more from my job applications. I know 40 applications isn't that many and will be applying to a lot more in the upcoming weeks but is there something that is holding it back? Having no internships isn't helping but I would like an outside perspective on it and hopefully some ways to improve it to make it more successful.

(With my undergraduate research, I didn't do much for it at the time so it is difficult to write bullet points on it. I also was a course grader, university camp counselor, and have cool coding projects which I removed because I felt they were a little old/irrelevant)

Background: CS student based in Singapore, penultimate year.

About to start applying to internships for the Summer 2027 cycle, hoping to get some feedback to finetune this resume from more experienced people. I did a 6 months internship in a small startup previously but I'm hoping for more big tech/MNC roles, although I'm not sure if my resume is good enough for that. The rest of the resume is just university-related projects/modules or personal projects.

I mainly have experience in full stack dev (no further specialization in front or backend, I interned at a startup so I basically did everything), but I also have one ML/NLP project that I did under my university. However I'm mainly still hoping for full stack roles as I dont see myself doing AI/ML long term.

I got incredibly lucky with my first internship, which has resulted in a verbal return offer. Even with this offer, I want to keep looking in other areas of civil. I'm currently a sophomore, and my one interview led to the offer. How can I best improve my resume to attract more opportunities this summer or even down the line?

Any tips regarding my resume or internship search are welcome and appreciated!

Mechanical Engineer with 4 years at LG Electronics, starting an MSc at the University of Manchester in Sep 2026.

Targeting 2027 UK graduate roles in mechanical/project engineering, including energy/offshore companies.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on:

(0) Good to read?

(1) whether 2 pages is justified

(2) which projects should be kept/removed

(3) whether the CV reads as too manufacturing-focused

(4) bullet density / readability

(5)whether my previous 4 YoE creates any concern for graduate schemes

I graduated in July 2026 with a B.Tech in CS (8.2 CGPA) from a private university in Hyderabad, India. I'm targeting entry-level software engineering roles, primarily backend/general SWE, with some interest in cloud and distributed systems.

Locations: I'm based in Hyderabad but open to relocating anywhere in India for the right role - applying across Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR, Chennai, and everywhere else, plus remote roles across India and the occasional remote-global role that's open to India-based candidates.

Background: during college I worked part-time for about 14 months as a frontend engineer at a small B2B fintech SaaS (real production work, ~84 merged PRs), plus a 6-month backend-leaning internship at a US startup. Alongside that I've built the systems projects on the resume - a time-series database, an API gateway, and an LSM-tree storage engine - all with published benchmarks and live deployments.

Situation: I've sent hundreds of applications over the past weeks and have only received few responses (1 interview and other few ghosted again), so I'm trying to figure out whether the resume itself is contributing to the low response rate. I recently revised my internship and project bullets to make them more relevant to general SWE roles and to communicate impact more clearly, and I'd like a sanity check on whether that worked.

Specific things I'd love feedback on: (1) whether the project bullets read as impressive or as over-detailed/too long, (2) whether leading with Projects above Experience is the right call when my only work experience is part-time + internship, (3) whether a part-time frontend title hurts me for backend roles and how to frame it better, and (4) anything that looks like an ATS parsing risk. Brutal honesty welcome.

I’ve started applying for jobs and wanted to get some feedback on my resume. Please point out any issues or things you think I could improve.

I feel like some of my work experience bullets are a bit lengthy, but at the same time, I feel like I need to explain the work I actually did.

Would really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

I am updating my resume for when I graduate this Spring, I also work concurently while finishing my masters degree, full time at my internship that turned into an Engineering position. Please advise what can be improved on my resume and what is worded poorly. I am hoping to find a position closer to controls/robotics after I graduate however my job is not closely related. Overall finetuning and review of resume requested.