Environmental Engineering Summer Placement Review

Item: Environmental Engineering Summer Placement at MBDA
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at MBDA

Internship (1 Month+)

Engineering, Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Stevenage

Review Submitted: August 2023

Overall Rating

4.9 /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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

My role involves working hand-on on the projects in the lab, writing instructions, test records or test reports and some analysis of the data recorded

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Some responsibility with writing one formal report and conduct my own project for half the placement, but cannot be fully responsible for testing as I wouldn't manage to get signed off as sufficiently capable for the placement.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

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

Heavily developed my data analysis skills, developed report writing skills and learnt how to conduct Modal Analysis.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

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

5/5

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

5/5

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

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

Lots of support from line managers and other members of the team. I had a buddy assigned to me to help with how to navigate the company. I had a technical coordinator with regular weekly meeting to catch up on my work progress and find me more useful work to be doing.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

4/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Really friendly, made me feel included in the team right from the start. able to talk to high level engineers about problems freely to get their advice. Other placement students available to chat to and get friendly with.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I really enjoyed my placement, felt valued in my role and that I was bringing value to the business. Good supportive team to help me and lots of interesting projects to get involved in