<p>To engineering students: Are you finding any summer internships?
To engineering graduates: Are you getting any job offers?</p>
<p>This is aimed particularly at civil engineering students/grads but I would still like to hear how everyone else is doing in this recession. I would also like to know what schools you attend(ed).</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>I know I am not civil, but I am graduating this semester and applied to only two jobs and was offered one of them, so 50% isn’t bad considering the economy. It was at General Dynamics. I turned it down because I decided to go straight to graduate school. I also found an internship for the summer so I can get some cash too.</p>
<p>I am mechanical.</p>
<p>Well I’m an Industrial Engineering major, but I would think that Civ’s will have “no problem” finding jobs given they have put in the effort. With the increased spending Obama has planned for the improvement of our infrastructure, I’d bet on civil engineers being recruited heavily.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the details of Obama’s infrastructure plan and how it relates to civil engineering majors finding jobs?</p>
<p>What would benefit civil engineers the most would actually be a change in the attitude towards infrastructure. This plan funds projects that are “shovel-ready” meaning they can get started within 90 days. Typically, these projects have already been engineered, and the only reason they aren’t already underway is the lack of funding. Civil engineers might be able to bill some more hours, but the bulk of the work has already been done for these projects. Changing the attitude towards infrastructure, however, will be a long term improvement for the civil engineering industry.</p>
<p>While this won’t benefit civil engineers much, it will benefit civil engineering majors who decide to go into the construction side, specifically heavy construction. That is where all the work will be.</p>
<p>This infrastructure plan won’t really benefit those who want to work with buildings that much. I believe the original plan had some money set aside for schools, but that got nixed.</p>
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If not civils, it will most likely benefit construction managers…</p>
<p>I would like to hear more from sophomore/junior students. </p>
<p>I just realized there is a thread similar to this one (“do YOU have a summer internship?”), oops.</p>
<p>I’m finishing up my sophomore year in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, and my summer internship outlook is extremely bleak right now. I applied to several civil engineering companies in the Baltimore area, and most companies have scaled back their internship programs or have cut them altogether.</p>
<p>The stimulus package hasn’t really helped at all on the design side, but the construction side of civil engineering is doing ok from what I’ve heard. It seems like the students who have internships this summer are working for construction management firms.</p>
<p>I’ve had two previous summer internships, and had no trouble whatsoever landing them. I called up the companies, they had me come in, and I was hired on the spot. Now, those same two companies can’t hire any interns this year.</p>
<p>I really hope this economy shapes up by next year because it looks like I’ll be working at a retail store this summer…if they’re even hiring.</p>
<p>Not Civil, but I pretended to be for a summer.</p>
<p>I’m a current Junior in Materials Science at VT, and the jobs are considerably worse than last year. Many, many places which traditionally hired interns are no longer doing so, or are hiring less than half as many as usual. Last year most of my friends and I had offers by a month after Christmas break. People who are getting internships this year, again including myself, are just now getting them, making planning a chore. Most people are getting internships, but some can’t find anything.</p>
<p>I’m a third year Electrical Engineering student and I still don’t have an internship. Since I’m supposed to start working next week, I’ve pretty much given up, especially since I have a nice paying job lined up anyway. I did an internship last summer though.</p>
<p>All the Civil Engineering students I know have internships though… the market is great for civil eng. around here (I’m in Canada).</p>