Internships for an Aeronautical Engineering student?

[superhans88]

Hi everyone,

I'm in 3rd year of a 5 year degree in Aero Eng and currently applying for summer/12month internships for next year.

I'm looking for suggestions for who to apply to in the field of car manufacturing and motor-sport as I won't have time to apply to everyone. What motor-racing organisations outside of F1 will employ aero engineers as interns? What about car manufacturers and aerospace companies that I haven't listed below?

Already applied to
-Williams F1
-Jaguar Land-Rover
-Rolls Royce (Aero engines)
-General Electric
-BAE Systems
-MBDA (Missiles)
-Cummins
-Subsea 7

Cheers for any suggestions guys.

[Jamesd49]

Prodrive might be worth a try

[tim2100]

Aero Engine Controls

[Turbo5]

Safran Group lots of companies throught the World mainly France but some in the UK Aircelle, Messiers Dowty, Turbomeca etc

[PaulG40]

Qinetic and Selex, Raytheon in the aerospace side aswell.

[blueg33]

McDonalds!


Oh, its ok, you are not an Arts undergraduate

Try Force India (Milton Keynes), my neighbours son had an internship there. He is doing motorsports engineering, but spent much of his time at Force India working on aero.

Edited by blueg33 on Monday 2nd January 10:16

[K87]

Perkins Engines

Not strictly aeronautical but a lot of the engineering fundamentals are common, we have some people on the grad scheme from aeronautical backgrounds.

[Frik]

Try all of the F1 teams, especially McLaren and Red Bull.

Triumph Motorcycles have an excellent placement scheme, too.

[lazystudent]

blueg33 said:

Oh, its ok, you are not an Arts undergraduate

We're not all completely useless!

[blueg33]

lazystudent said:

We're not all completely useless!

Only joking

Large fries please

[Simbu]

Airbus?

Based in Bristol I believe.

[superhans88]

Cheers for all the suggestions so far guys, there's some companies in there I hadn't even heard of and I'll deffo give them a go. Airbus has its deadline at the end of the month so I've got plenty of time for that. To my original list I can now add Prodrive and Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines. Williams is the only team advertising placements but I'll deffo fire off an application to some others too. So far my course is virtually identical to that of straight Mech with Aero as a side dish so I should be OK for a more mechanical engineering based role. Keep the suggestions rolling guys!

[blueg33]

European Space Agency?

[ndtman]

Simbu said:

Airbus?

Based in Bristol I believe.

And GKN who make carbon composite wing spars for Airbus.

[robmlufc]

Lola are always on the look out.

[Cyder]

EADS Astrium (satellites) are based in Stevenage/Portsmouth
Nissan Technical Centre is based in Cranfield and are hiring lots of people at the moment.

[Frik]

Cyder said:

EADS Astrium (satellites) are based in Stevenage/Portsmouth.

Would a satellite manufacturer have much call for an aeronautical engineer?

[New POD]

tim2100 said:

Aero Engine Controls

Which is half RR and half Goodrich

also try :

Parker
Assystem
Sumitomo
aircelle
bombardier (Shorts belfast)
TRW Aerospace
Eaton
The Northwest Aerospace Alliance

[Cyder]

Frik said:

Cyder said:

EADS Astrium (satellites) are based in Stevenage/Portsmouth.

Would a satellite manufacturer have much call for an aeronautical engineer?

My degree was Aero and they were daft enough to take me on for a placement, so yes!

[Murdoc]

tim2100 said:

Aero Engine Controls

from the whittle building.