So I just got an email from our school saying that they offer certifications for LabView. I only messed with LabView a little bit during freshman year and really didn’t like it but if they’re offering official certifications then that perked my ears a bit. A certification could be the difference maker for internships or whatever.
However, I have never heard of anyone using LabView seriously. I feel like Matlab is far more prominent within the industry. Is that accurate? Does anyone have any insight as to how useful it would be for me to get certified in LabView?
In general, the more things you have to offer, particularly as a just starting out engineer, the more marketable you are.
Unless it will mess up a GPA, it’s probably worth having.
One of our interns this summer got picked up because of something similar - a one line item on a resume that matched a shrt term need of ours.
It really depends on the job. It is very common for mechanical engineers (and mechanical engineering jobs) to use a lot of LabVIEW. It is also very common to never use it. I, for one, use it all the time. It is nearly ubiquitous in research labs, for example.
I use it for my graduate research and have seen it listed as a desired skill in a number of job postings. It can’t hurt to be familiar with it. Which certifications do you have the chance to get? The first level (CLAD) doesn’t really show much other than LabView is not completely foreign to you, but having the second (CLD) proves a certain level of proficiency. I’m not an employer and don’t know how much the certifications would help, but again, either way, it doesn’t hurt to have it on your resume and can only help.
To be honest, having perused many ME ads for my son, if your school does not teach Solidworks, it would probably be more valuable to take as an extra class. Solid works is taught online, at some community colleges and as a 40 hr beginning class at a Solidworks reseller that is authorized to teach to Educational institutions.