Industrial Placement Review

Item: Industrial Placement at Cummins
Rating: 3.7
Author: Anonymous

at Cummins

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering, Automotive Engineering

Huddersfield

Review Submitted: June 2023

Overall Rating

3.7 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

4/5 - Overview of Role

3.8/5 - Skills Development

4/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

3/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

What the placement involves depends on the department you are in. Product-focused roles will have a larger emphasis of working within a larger team conducting verification and validation tasks, including emails and meetings. Experimental project focused roles will involve more independent working with occasional project updates to a larger audience

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes. During the first few months you are more heavily supervised to ease you into the business and have closer support should you need it. However, as the placement progresses, you are given more substantial responsibility over your work - for me this included 1) being the only engineer within my department working on my project, 2) was given the opportunity to define how another project should be approached and begin.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

4/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Was able to develop coding/application development skills and overall project/time management skills

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

3/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

4/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

4/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

I would rate the support and guidance highly. Everyone is always willing to help and answer any quires. It is also expected that every employee, not just placements, have regular 1:1 with their managers to discuss not only project progress & any support needed, but also any out-of-work situations if necessary.