First Year Engineering Internships

Im cyrrently a MechE student and in my first year but am really keen and intrested in completing a intership in automotive, motorsports, aviations and fields related to these.

I was having a look through webistes that show all the available internships and it seems they only really accept second years adn third years. Does anyone know of nay companies or anyhting else i can do to try and work in engineering in a summer placement for this upcoming summer?

Are you involved with your uni's Formula Student team?

yes i am its hard to get involved with much technical stuff as its quite advanced at the moment but ive been given a project about looking into our cars setup using IPG and an helping build the car and lathe and mill parts

That's a good start. Did you look at Motorsport Engineering degrees?

Yes i did but i liked southampton and its course and decided id like to do a bachelors with a placement year either in aviation or motorsports at soton and then go to brookes or cranfield to do there Msc in motorsports engineering.

OK that sounds good and Brookes will have completed its brand new facilities for Engineering by then

Thats great, i think im leaning to brookes as you can get heavily involved with FS within and outside your studies and also it seems to get better reviews then cranfield gets and seems a nicer place to live.