Where to start engineering?

Tell us about your work experience, research experience, and extracurriculars.

>>18157171
>No prior internship experience
>No research experience
>Extracurriculars were mostly band related
When I went to the office of career development a year ago to talk about my lack of experience, I was told to emphasize my engineering project experience from my coursework. I obviously haven't done a large scale project before, but I have done an injection mold design project, a gear train design project, a motor control project using programmable microcontrollers, and some stress analysis work. The CAD I used was Siemens NX, which it seems like everyone's asking for AutoCAD or Solidworks, but unfortunately I don't have much experience in either of those.

I'd like to get into design engineering, though I don't really have an idea of what I'd like to design.

>>18157192
Do you have ANY work experience? If not, what in the world were you doing while you were at school? And are you working now? You're not going to get a job anywhere if you don't have anything to offer except a degree.

>>18157204
If we're talking about past work experience, the only real experience I have is my current part time job at Kohl's. I joined as a seasonal hire and was kept on as a regular hire, and I even was acknowledged as an employee of the month for February. At the very least, this much can hopefully vouch for my work ethic, but I have yet to ask any of my coworkers to be my references.

>>18157210
Then use it. You have nothing else, and it can't hurt. The whole "only put relevant work experience on your resume" is terrible advice for people trying to get entry-level jobs.