What type of engineering? Keep in my mind that for an engineering application, work experience and extra curriculars aren't really that important compared to something like medicine, nursing, etc. Show a passion for the subject in your personal statement, have good predicted grades in Maths/any physical sciences and you should get offers.
For my application, I applied for Electronic Engineering, I just did some research on it and mentioned parts of it in my personal statement. I also build computers so that helped, if you do that kind of thing, fix cars, bikes anything like that, a brief mention will help. Obviously, only mention it if it is somewhat related to the degree. E.g Electronic engineering- Computer parts. If you were applying for mechanical, mention interest or experience with cars or something.
For my application, I applied for Electronic Engineering, I just did some research on it and mentioned parts of it in my personal statement. I also build computers so that helped, if you do that kind of thing, fix cars, bikes anything like that, a brief mention will help. Obviously, only mention it if it is somewhat related to the degree. E.g Electronic engineering- Computer parts. If you were applying for mechanical, mention interest or experience with cars or something.
coding
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I am thinking about this too, for both my civil engineering application and for the skills section of my Duke Of Edinburgh award.
I don't have any IT skills really other than basic word I've used for essays as our school does not offer any computing subjects and I have never had any need to use them, so was considering doing the ECDL/ICDL course online for word, excel, powerpoint and access database, but not sure if there is a better course or way to do it that gets an accreditation at the end. Another option was coding, if anyone can recommend an online course for beginners? I do not live in an area where things like this are offered locally, there are no coding clubs in our area.
For the volunteering side I am hoping, once covid restrictions are lifted to volunteer doing park maintenance at our local country park.
If anyone has any other volunteering or skills ideas please share!
I don't have any IT skills really other than basic word I've used for essays as our school does not offer any computing subjects and I have never had any need to use them, so was considering doing the ECDL/ICDL course online for word, excel, powerpoint and access database, but not sure if there is a better course or way to do it that gets an accreditation at the end. Another option was coding, if anyone can recommend an online course for beginners? I do not live in an area where things like this are offered locally, there are no coding clubs in our area.
For the volunteering side I am hoping, once covid restrictions are lifted to volunteer doing park maintenance at our local country park.
If anyone has any other volunteering or skills ideas please share!
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I am thinking about this too, for both my civil engineering application and for the skills section of my Duke Of Edinburgh award.
I don't have any IT skills really other than basic word I've used for essays as our school does not offer any computing subjects and I have never had any need to use them, so was considering doing the ECDL/ICDL course online for word, excel, powerpoint and access database, but not sure if there is a better course or way to do it that gets an accreditation at the end. Another option was coding, if anyone can recommend an online course for beginners? I do not live in an area where things like this are offered locally, there are no coding clubs in our area.
For the volunteering side I am hoping, once covid restrictions are lifted to volunteer doing park maintenance at our local country park.
If anyone has any other volunteering or skills ideas please share!
I don't have any IT skills really other than basic word I've used for essays as our school does not offer any computing subjects and I have never had any need to use them, so was considering doing the ECDL/ICDL course online for word, excel, powerpoint and access database, but not sure if there is a better course or way to do it that gets an accreditation at the end. Another option was coding, if anyone can recommend an online course for beginners? I do not live in an area where things like this are offered locally, there are no coding clubs in our area.
For the volunteering side I am hoping, once covid restrictions are lifted to volunteer doing park maintenance at our local country park.
If anyone has any other volunteering or skills ideas please share!
The following isn't related to engineering per se, but I thought I might throw it in anyway:
Microsoft Office
There is something called the Microsoft Office Specialist qualification. It's the highest qualification you can get in Microsoft Office, and it's probably significantly better and harder than the ECDL course. The MOS qulaification is accredited by Microsoft, so it's not like an unrecognised qualification by employers and academics. See the following for Microsoft's description of it (it's a bit dated considering there are newer versions of the qualification):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/earn-a-microsoft-office-specialist-mos-certification-0885c944-167c-51ea-1cdc-8f65952bd1b8
This is an interesting article that I have came across whilst googling for the details of MOS:
https://www.cbtnuggets.com/blog/certifications/microsoft/microsoft-office-certifications-are-they-worth-it
See the following for the up to date electives:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/browse/?type=mos
Do be careful in picking the right course, as different course providers might not be approved by Microsoft since their syllabus might not cover everything on MOS. For the exams, you will need to buy exam vouchers separate to the course.
Once you have the MOS Master qualification, you should almost be on par with the professionals. The only thing they don't really teach on MOS is VBA programming, which is like simplified coding.
Coding
I am not entirely sure what programming language is involved in engineering, but I have learned the basics of coding through the following:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/
https://www.w3schools.com/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing
If you have a bit of money, consider looking into the following:
https://academy.zenva.com/
https://www.udemy.com/ (buy when there is a sale on)
https://teamtreehouse.com/
https://www.udacity.com/school-of-programming
https://www.codecademy.com/
https://www.skillshare.com/browse/technology
I have yet to fully check out the following:
https://alison.com/courses/it
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/computer-science
https://www.sololearn.com/ (free)
https://www.coursera.org/browse/computer-science
https://www.simplilearn.com/
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