Entry-Level Engineer Career Information

Video Transcript

"My name is Alex and I am an entry level engineer for Weber Eliot Engineers in Eugene, Oregon and I'm going to give you some tips on becoming an entry level engineer. The biggest tip I could give you on becoming this, an entry level engineer is if you are interested in the field just use your degree, use your education and your skills and put together a resume and start calling engineering firms. I discovered that just calling engineering firms they don't tend to advertise their internships all that frequently to the public and sometimes they don't even know they need an intern until somebody knocks on their door. So for getting the job, call around and find out who needs help and be their help and that is the best advice I could give for getting in the door. The other tips would be of course, develop your skills in mathematics. Get a math or physics degree, work along those lines. Physics, chemistry, and then of course basic engineering courses, drafting courses are important including AutoCad and also actual hand drawing drafting courses. If you are not a very good drawer you might still be a good drafter and so that is a good skill to hone. But definitely back to if you want the job go look for it and develop your personal skills because if you do become an engineer later on one thing you are going to have to do is learn how to network, learn how to talk to clients, learn how to talk to people in a variety of disciplines to help get your job done. So knowing how to communicate with people well is just as important as all these other things."