Undergraduate Engineer Review
by MBDA
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at MBDA
- 7. Would you recommend MBDA to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
Overview
As a systems engineer: gathering evidence against requirements, liaising with team leads to keep track of timelines, writing documents as proving evidence against requirements. As a mechanical engineer: Experimental rig design in CAD, 3D printing of components, algorithm validation and analysis in MATLAB, controller design in LabVIEW.
Skills
Learned a lot about requirements engineering and V&V. Developed written and spoken communications skills significantly (especially emails). Enhanced my coding ability and efficiency. Improved my self-management. Improved confidence with making presentations.
Responsibilities
Yes, the work I did directly contributed to and was an important part of live projects and ongoing research.
Support & Guidance
Plenty, from supervisors, my assigned ‘buddy’, and regularly from HR.
Culture
Very comfortable and friendly, people are always willing to chat and help you out if you need it.
Your Impressions
The role I was initially placed in wasn’t for me, but I was able to find a new role for the second half of my placement that I enjoyed far more and I was happy in.
Yes
Be yourself, emphasise the relevant skills you have for the job, show interest in their training and development opportunities because they are very good!
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Mechanical Engineering
South West
November 2021
