<p>I am a Mechanical Engineering major and plan on applying for interns next year.</p>
<p>Which large companies should I be interested in? Can anyone give me a list of the big ME related companies, and a scope of what they do?</p>
<p>A lot of the interns or jobs require knowledge of complex languages that I do not know. What if the college's undergraduate program does not cover these languages or program knowledge?</p>
<p>General Industrial: GE</p>
<p>Automotive: GM, Ford, DCX, Toyota, Honda, </p>
<p>Defense: Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics, BAE, Raytheon</p>
<p>Oil & Gas: Exxon, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips</p>
<p>For General Electric, is it possible to work under different-related industries with a ME degree?</p>
<p>ex. energy, commercial, electronics</p>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>GE has many divisions were MEs can be used. The two most obvious divisions would be GE Industrial & GE Infrastructure.</p>
<p>Ack! What if you're opposed to much of what the defense and oil/gas industries do for a living?!!</p>
<p>I'm not sure how someone is against oil and gas. They supply energy. Everything else related to oil's usage is a function of its cost relative to other forms of energy.</p>
<p>You could always work for a car company, or put your money where your mouth is and find a job with an alternative energy company. Wind and geothermal are both Mech E jobs - so is process control for solar manufacturing. There's also the packaging and thermal divisions of any of the large chip manufacturers - intel & AMD. Mech E is very broad and there are plenty of politically neutral jobs.</p>
<p>Just a few more questions:</p>
<p>1) How competitive is it to get a job for ME? In other words, what is the ratio of hirers:applicants? </p>
<p>2) What do mechanical engineers interns do for a company, as compared to the hired workers?</p>
<p>3) Where are the hottest locations of ME jobs?</p>
<p>4) What are specific programming skills or specific skills that employers look for when hiring new mechanical engineers? (knowledge of C++, MATLAB, CAD, other design programs)</p>