BAE Systems

Applied physics and mathematics to electromechanical systems, product safety considerations, presentations, meetings, training and learning, coding, circuit design, product purchasing, budgeting, resource gathering, developing and discussing new ideas and...

I was given the general job title of an aerospace engineer however my role was not what I would class as engineering and was not scientific at all. It was more of a people type role and I spent most of my time in meetings where I wasn't sure what was goin...

Working as a mechanical engineer within EPG team delivering support to Royal Navy ships.

Excel, meetings, reading documentation

First days was a welcome to the company, opportunities to meeting students and employees, welcome contained site visits and talks which touched on relevant themes within the industry. Some IT issues at the start of the internship caused slight delays to s...

Summer Internship in FCAS Airworthiness

I helped a team provide the Part M maintenance for the QEAF pilots at RAF Leeming. Daily tasks included organisation structuring and site visits. I interacted with senior persons of the business and groundcrew.

Support factory workers, CAD design work, data analysis of the factory performance, creating factory worker training packages

Assisting with engineering projects on the base and researching potential new projects with a strong enviromental concern. Consulting with various organisations within the base on the feasibility of research conducted.

Performing circuit analysis and testing circuit boards

Learning about systems engineering from members of the team, and helping projects by using tools such as Excel and MATLAB.

The role involves building new systems to be integrated into a larger project, checking if the design for those systems is possible, prototyping and then integrating them into the project itself.

I designed and simulated a potential new hardware system for the company. In the first two weeks I learned how to use the software I would be using and started developing an understanding of the research area. After this, my days involved researching pote...

Tasks generally rotated through the month with a lot of work being dedicated to updating the forecast with actual data to feed back to individual functions at month end. I was based in the cost base team so compliance with external auditors was very commo...

Collecting user stories, working on making and refining products for stakeholders, making presentations, attending workshops, organising meetings, organising Planner tasks

Designed and built a prototype piece of hardware to interface with and control some existing systems, and wrote software to control it and analyse the resulting data. Tested this project in a lab and analysed results. Designed, simulated in MATLAB and imp...

My role was to assist the data science teams. I was a consultant, so my daily tasks switched between data analysis, data architecture and data management. The majority of my tasks were assigned by another team member who needed assistance. On some occasio...

Some software development as well as working with hardware and other cool stuff :)

Assisted the data science teams with their duties. These included maintenance and management of databases using SQL, Python, R and Scala code. I also performed data analysis on the databases and presented my findings to key stakeholders. I took part in th...

Electronic engineer within the Photonics team. Conducted experiments, wrote reports, researched literature. Also attending shadowing opportunities and informal discussions with other members of the team