Mechanical Engineers of TSR

first year was pretty easy

most important thing in first year is to attend

and just spend like 5-10 hours a week on a sunday going over the stuff and youll be dandy, and just skim on the bus on your way to uni

Attendance is has strong correlation with pass and even grades, and its much easier when your lecturer gets blackboard shy

you're in second year now i presume? How is it now?

nope im in first

i see! Thank's for the input

lol

You're back hahaha what did you get banned for??!

guess

oh btw, I got through to the assessment centre for an internship I applied for, I've never got this far

Now I need to get my suit sorted!

Violating captain planet?

That's aswome, congratulations!!! Be ready for that assessment i heard they just give you some exercises to see how you work well with others and if you're beast you are pretty much in.

Not quite

Yeah, I'm going to take next weekend to prepare myself. I read somewhere that you are judged on how you interact with people, even at lunch! I am not looking forward to that because I don't really talk...

i think the best thing to do is to relax and try your best to interact with the people on your team! You have done really well to get this far so give it your all how where the psychometric n online tests? It doesn't last long i think its 20-30mins (or at least thats what jaguar told me ) are you applying for a year long one or summer one?

I have also been preparing to apply for some internships mainly for when iv finished first year of mech eng so ill be applying for next summer. They are quite competitive especially the good ones though i was surprised how many companies take on graduates on track for a 2:2 and above.

Numerical was fine, and they used it to select who they asked to take the verbal reasoning test. VR was okay, but I got confused by a few of the questions, but I must have done well enough. I'm applying for a summer one. Kind of wish I'd applied to Rolls-Royce this year (but they've already rejected me twice before )

I need to take a look at exactly what kinds of tasks I might be doing, and interview questions (how can you have an hour long interview?!)

Do you have any companies in mind (already!)?

i tried to get some work experience before university and applied to Rolls-Royce and Airbus UK. Got rejected by Rolls-Royce but i got the Airbus UK one but for the Airbus one they had specific dates on which i could do the work experience( it was called manufacturing engineering) so it ended up being fully booked so i couldn't do it and also it was in south wales which is 4 hours away from where i livee so that wasn't going to happen

It depends what kind of companies you are interested in? If you are like me and have a range of interests from different industries then i would suggest looking at Jaguar,Nissan,Airbus, GE Aviation, Agusta Westland, Atkins, BP, 3M etc

Smack actually gave me some useful advice use gradcracker to look for some placements it has loads for mechanical!

Hmm, I have applied to a few of those in the past, I should take another look. I've been using Gradcracker for ages, I have a feeling Smack suggested it to me too

I have come to terms with the fact that if I get an internship, it is unlikely to be an area I am really interested in (*cough* robots), but I think I would still be enthusiastic about other engineering things, particularly ones that move ^_^

first year was pretty easy

most important thing in first year is to attend

and just spend like 5-10 hours a week on a sunday going over the stuff and youll be dandy, and just skim on the bus on your way to uni

Attendance is has strong correlation with pass and even grades, and its much easier when your lecturer gets blackboard shy

Despite the first year not counting towards my degree, the grades scored will likely affect my ability to apply for placements in the third year.

I do find that a lot of people just go for bare minimum marks to pass... While that is a perfectly valid way to get into the second year, they're going to struggle when they realise they're being tested on things that they should know from the first year.

So, I'm working hard to excel in this first year. It may help job prospects, and it will really help me for next year as I'll be more proficient than those who are just skimming through. Point in effect: 6 months after starting, one guy put up his hand the other day and said "so what are imaginary numbers then?" (we covered it in the first few lectures and is bizarre enough for most to not forget).

Don't work your hands to the bone by writing out tonnes in revision, but I don't think it's wise for anyone to just sod it off.

thats good, how much private study do you do btw?

also, the maths is the easy part, whats difficult for me is the group work, and the mechanics modules

what i cant stress enough, attend every lecture and take part

i missed stress and thermo lectures , and i had to spend so much time going over them