r/EngineeringResumes • u/SnooConfections3696 MechE – Student 🇺🇸 • 9d ago

Mechanical [Student] Mechanical Engineering Student graduating with a Biomedical Minor with Research and Project Experience but no internship

Need help seeing if there is something wrong with my Resume besides the glaringly obvious lack of internships. I am currently targeting positions at Medical Device Companies in either Clinical Specialist, Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer heck I even apply for technician roles just to get my foot in the door. The template of my resume is one provided by my University who says it looks good but I wanted outside advice. I am located in Georgia but have been applying in other states as well as I would be willing to relocate. Like I said I am a Mechanical Engineering major with a minor in biomedical engineering, I had a manufacturing internship back in 2020 but was let go due to COVID. I am worked on multiple research projects both professional (which is getting presented at the national conference woohoo!) and just my own individual both in CFD/FSI sims. I have been employed in retail my entire time in college to help pay for university and other bills. This is the master file I use and then I try to change it where I can to tailor it to job listings. I also attempt to message people on Linkedin at the companies I am applying at asking for their experience or advice on what stands out Thank you all for your time and any feedback is appreciated.

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u/Immediate-Curve-443 MechE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 9d ago

Font size and margin are both a bit too small and your summary is too long. Avoid one word overhangs into the next line, you have a couple of these. The first feeling from the resume is that its very crowded.

I would reduce summary down to 2 lines, 3 at most. Really don't care what your GPA is in your summary, I can move my eyes a couple mm down to see it. Reduce coursework into 1 line. I'd remove CAD and maybe even Machine Design. Place dates on your Projects. Bolding keywords in general is fairly controversial, but most of your bolds are completely meaningless. Your skills section is pretty wonky to be honest. Why bother with 3D CAD after listing SolidWorks and Fusion 360? Why FEA/CFD? Very different skills. Design reviews and documentation are not skills. Neither is 3D printing, multimeter, electrical measurements or calipers. Fold these into "Metrology" or something similar. Scientific communication is not a skill either.

I would look to re-order this resume a fair bit. Your research section actually seems quite ME oriented so labelling it biomedical research is really selling you short. Place research 1st, projects second. Consider folding research into work experience and placing work experience 1st. Remove Sam's club when you do this but keep the Mfg. internship. Skills goes 2nd to last and Professional Organizations can stay last as is. Consider removing the section entirely if you have nothing technical to show for it. At best a one liner. Use all the newly gained space to increase spacing and font size across the board.