<p>Is it a good idea for an engineering student to have a website? Do any of you guys have one? I'm almost done making one, and I plan to post some pictures of my solidworks models up.</p>
<p>I think it would be an interesting idea, especially if you include your CV/resume for potential employers to look at…</p>
<p>Our intro to engr. class (called Engineering design and graphics) requires us to get webspace from school and create our own personal website. so yeah the first year all engineering students get a website under .edu name. i think it’s a good idea and I imagine you should be able to put the website down on your resume in the future.</p>
<p>Are you planning on blogging too? A few of my friends who are in McCombs School of Business blog about life/school/whatever. I always thought it was a good idea since others can read how a student’s life is like.</p>
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Yeah. I had to create one for my engineering design class. Basically I just put down the courses that I have taken so far, a little about myself (hobbies, where I grew up, interests), and some pdf’s showcasing some of my solidworks models that I have created in the past.</p>
<p>I think if you know for sure employers are looking at/will look at it, its best to blog about school,work-related stuff, hobbies(if you want to blog anyway), instead of turning it into a rambling myspace page. I have friends who blog about everything and it really takes away from their sites, imo.</p>
<p>In the age of employers being able to Google prospectives, a small web presence seems like a good idea. A website with your most updated resume (both on site and for download), if you’ve done research, made a program, etc you can detail it there… it sort of allows you greater freedom and area to make a fuller picture of you to anyone who wants to know. That said, if you turn it into a blog, I’d just be careful about what you say. While a web presence can be good (I can’t say as if it matters all that much though), a lack of presence is better than one that shows drunken adventures or explains trouble at home, you get the gist.</p>
<p>People at my school had to make one as well. For some reason, ME’s (probably civils, chem-e’s, maybe bio, etc) don’t have to take programming in Java/C++/Python, they do Matlab and a bit of HTML. They all made websites and posted schedules or classes, maybe a design for a project or something, but most of them haven’t been touched since the class.</p>
<p>I think it’s better for those in the arts where they can post galleries of their work, or creative writing folk can show writing samples or clips/links to published work, maybe CS majors who have independent projects that can be downloaded and used as example work in true form, whereas on paper describing any one of those could be much more limited.</p>
<p>Many of the graduate applications I had to fill out had fields for personal websites, so it could come in handy then if you keep it fairly professional.</p>
<p>My old roommate was at a job interview and the guy he was talking with had googled him and found his webpage, blog type thing, various comics he had written, a few freeware type games he had made, and his cafepress store. The guy slipped in a reference to one of the jokes on a t-shirt he had made at his store and seemed somewhat impressed, so depending on the person that’s interviewing you, a web presence like my roommate’s could be a good or a bad thing. (He got the job, by the way.)</p>
<p>If the website is more of a portfolio, it’s definitely good. If it’s a blog about your drunken weekend… not so good. Use your common sense and you’ll be fine.</p>