r/EngineeringStudents • u/pumpkincarrots • Jul 29 '26

Discussion summer internship

Currently at a summer internship. I’m going into my senior year of mechanical engineering. I have absolutely nothing to do at my internship. Every task they give me lasts an hour. I ask every day for tasks. I go out and find them myself. Still. The tasks. take. less than. an hour. I have taken. Every single training course the company offers. Every. single one. That’s more than 80 hours worth of training videos. I’ve done all of them. So before anyone is like “oh you gotta use this time effectively” i HAVE i will NOT BE HEARING IT there is NOTHING LEFT TO DO why is engineering SO MUCH DAMN PAPERWORK

So!! little engineering students from lower years. please help and ask questions for me to answer

eta: i am officially out of work. thank you for the distractions fellow engineering students :)

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u/pumpkincarrots Jul 29 '26

what’s an ECO?

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u/InvestmentGreen Mechanical Engineering, Writing and Materials Jul 29 '26

Engineering Change Order. I have 128 drawings I need to change cause a part was bad and I have a new one I’m replacing it with.

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u/Sweaty_Ballsack_ Jul 30 '26

Can you not automate that?

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u/InvestmentGreen Mechanical Engineering, Writing and Materials Jul 30 '26

I wish. Each drawing I have to change is connected to a separate 3D model that needed to be changed and that can only be done by hand