The Engineering Experience

          With the early-action deadline quickly approaching on November 1st, 2024, it is essential for you to begin the application process. While this may seem intimidating, the early-action application is important for you future engineers! To help make your application process and decision a little easier, I am going to give you some reasons as to why you should come to Purdue University. The People The people at Purdue University are some of the most welcoming, exciting, and interesting people I know! The wide range of backgrounds at Purdue is extensive and extremely eye-opening. I can confidently say that the people that I have met at Purdue are some of the greatest friends I have ever had in my entire life. As a third-year student at Purdue, I made a lot of my current friends in the Living Learning Community in Meredith South during my freshman year at Purdue. This learning community allowed me to be surrounded by strong women who were a...

Coming into my senior year as a civil engineering major at Purdue, I have had the pleasure of having not one, but two amazing internship experiences in my time here. In my case, although both internships were with the same company, they were both extremely different. My first internship was in design with Kiewit Oil Gas and Chemical Engineering in Houston, Texas, where I worked as a structural engineer intern. My second internship was in construction with Kiewit Building Group in Honolulu, Hawaii, where I worked as a field/office engineer intern. Looking back, here are some tips I would tell younger me when it comes to hunting for an internship. Building Up Yourself Obtaining an internship, especially as a first- or second-year student, can be intimidating, especially if you don’t have any experience. In my own experience, I did not have an internship after my first year. I took this to my advantage and worked while taking online classes to get ahead on my classes, which proved ...

Purdue students are almost done with week four of classes! Including the time spent at Boiler Gold Rush, new students have been on campus for a month now. While I am a sophomore this year, my first month at Purdue occurred a year ago. Let’s recap my first month at Purdue West Lafayette and how you can make the most out of yours! My BGR Team Leader Group Boiler Gold Rush Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) is Purdue’s orientation program. Last year when I was a new student, I had such an amazing experience that I returned to be a team leader this summer. BGR week includes some of my favorite Purdue traditions such as the fountain run, jumping the tracks, and drinking Den Pops! As an out-of-state student, I was worried about adjusting to college life and making friends at Purdue. BGR eased all of those fears. I made so many friends through my orientation group and my orientation leader made me feel very welcomed at the university. Since BGR takes place the week before classes start, I had more than e...

What is Industrial Roundtable? Purdue University offers many opportunities for students to look for internships, co-ops, and research positions. From career fairs to research symposiums, there are endless opportunities for the eager student. One of these opportunities is Industrial Roundtable (IR) - the largest engineering career fair at Purdue, and arguably one of the best career fairs in the nation. With over 400 companies and nearly 15,000 students attending, every year students look forward to practicing their interview skills, perfecting their résumés, and preparing their best interview outfits for IR. Industrial Roundtable is hosted at Memorial Mall in West Lafayette. This year the fair will happen on September 10th and 11th from 9 AM to 4 PM, and it will also be held virtually on the 12th from 10 AM to 4 PM. To participate, all you need to do is prepare your best career fair outfit, print out a couple résumés, and show up to the career fair and look for your favorite companies t...