Airbus Space & Defence
Discussion
Probably a long-shot, but does anyone work within the Airbus Space & Defence group?
I'm on placement between my 2nd and final year of university, studying Computer Science and I would love to work for Airbus - particularly as a Graduate Software Engineer / Graduate On-board Software Engineer.
In order to have the best application, I want to show Airbus how dedicated I am by tailoring my final year project and module choice to those roles.
1) Module choice; I pretty much will be doing this anyway, as they want someone who is skilled in c++ and I will be choosing Advanced C++ for my optional module (as I love c++ and know it will be more useful than the other 2 modules no matter what job I end up in) - the other options were Web Design or Robotics. I chose c++ as we already have knowledge of the language thus will progress the most - whereas the other two will be new knowledge and will only achieve a basic level.
2) I can do anything for my final year project so long as I can get an academic to agree to it. Now, I have no evidence of my interest in Airbus (nothing I can prove by actions) so I want to come up with a project that will show them how dedicated I am. However I'm totally stuck as to what I could potentially do. If anyone works in Airbus could they provide some guidance as to what they would look for, or provide some further details as what tasks I would be working on, on the mentioned roles.
I am aiming to achieve a 1st class degree, I will be pushing my self to get the highest percent possible - not just aim for 70%. I have plenty of activities I do in my spare time - football, part-time work etc; but again nothing relates to the industry; is there a particular thing I can do to impress them?
Cheers
I'm on placement between my 2nd and final year of university, studying Computer Science and I would love to work for Airbus - particularly as a Graduate Software Engineer / Graduate On-board Software Engineer.
In order to have the best application, I want to show Airbus how dedicated I am by tailoring my final year project and module choice to those roles.
1) Module choice; I pretty much will be doing this anyway, as they want someone who is skilled in c++ and I will be choosing Advanced C++ for my optional module (as I love c++ and know it will be more useful than the other 2 modules no matter what job I end up in) - the other options were Web Design or Robotics. I chose c++ as we already have knowledge of the language thus will progress the most - whereas the other two will be new knowledge and will only achieve a basic level.
2) I can do anything for my final year project so long as I can get an academic to agree to it. Now, I have no evidence of my interest in Airbus (nothing I can prove by actions) so I want to come up with a project that will show them how dedicated I am. However I'm totally stuck as to what I could potentially do. If anyone works in Airbus could they provide some guidance as to what they would look for, or provide some further details as what tasks I would be working on, on the mentioned roles.
I am aiming to achieve a 1st class degree, I will be pushing my self to get the highest percent possible - not just aim for 70%. I have plenty of activities I do in my spare time - football, part-time work etc; but again nothing relates to the industry; is there a particular thing I can do to impress them?
Cheers
At a wild guess a lot of what they'll be after will be embedded / realtime / high integrity systems stuff. Plus maybe some distributed processing (signal, video), system emulation and so on. And maybe some systems/databus/whatever modelling.
You should be able to find papers kicking around showing the sort of research areas they're looking at, for example there was one around using RT Linux for running avionics development & the factors affecting how 'realtime' it actually was compared to a proper RTOS on the real hardware.
You should be able to find papers kicking around showing the sort of research areas they're looking at, for example there was one around using RT Linux for running avionics development & the factors affecting how 'realtime' it actually was compared to a proper RTOS on the real hardware.
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