The Engineering Experience

If you’re thinking about majoring in engineering, you’re in luck because being an engineer is awesome!  As an engineer, you will get to learn many skills that will allow you to solve real-world problems, as well as have the opportunity to experience some really cool things.  Read on to see what our current engineering students' favorite parts of being an engineer are! “I like getting to do the labs and seeing how what you learned in the classroom applies to actual     problems” – Melissa  “I like that how there is just not one solution to a problem”—Katherine “I like getting to make the world better for people on a big scale”—Cassie “I like being able to problem solve to make the world better” – Joni “There is so many options for career paths!”—Madelyn “I love problem solving and how it applies to everything”—Lily   “I like being able to solve real-world problems”—Brittany  Let us know in the comments or tweet us @PurdueWIEP  why you love being an e

In the first part of this series I talked about how I acquired my co-op position, and in this post I’ll talk about many of the great experiences I had during my co-op terms. I worked in two different roles during my co-op, each for about 7 months. In my first role I worked as a Product Developer on adult care products, and in my second role I worked as a Process Engineer on paper towels. These two roles were vastly different, which is something I chose purposely in order to get a broad experience and see different areas of the business (research vs manufacturing). In both of my roles I had the opportunity to work on meaningful projects and take initiative to do things I thought needed to be done. I never felt like I was “just a co-op”, and I was never treated that way either. I felt like I was an equally valued employee contributing important work to my team and to the company as a whole. Kimberly-Clark is a global consumer products company that primarily produces paper bas