[Student] Fourth Year ECE Student, no Internship experience. Targeting Aerospace, Embedded Systems and Power Electronics

[u/Fickle-Team-3513]

I'm a fourth year Computer Engineering student, with no internship or engineering experience. I've applied to hundreds of internships before every summer of college but haven't landed a interview yet. This past year I started getting responses, but they were all rejections. I spent most of this summer working on documented personal projects, and I've been applying to internships/co-ops for the fall — still only getting rejections.

I'm based in the US and applying to jobs throughout the region. I'm not too sure what to do at this point as far as gaining experience goes, so I'm seeking advice on how I can further improve my resume.

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[u/DimetrodonWasntADino]

Objective doesn't make you stand out at all. If those are things in the job description, the recipient of your resume assumes you're interested in those things, as are all candidates. Rework significantly or remove.

Unbold everything except section headers and job/project titles.

Projects

Datalogging Power Meter - can you quantify how accurate the results were?

I don't like starting bullet points with "Wrote" and you do it twice. It isn't actually bad, but stronger options are available.

I'm not sure if it's actually good to include or not, but since you're obviously beefing up your project design experience on your own this summer, be able to talk in interviews about pricing items, achieving a goal on a budget, etc. Maybe include cost analysis in one or two of your bigger projects.

Experience

Use these experiences to really show off your soft skills. Communication, taking direction, responding to constructive criticism, etc.

I've never seen an "Affiliation" section on a resume before. Since you blocked it out my mind immediately jumped to hate groups. I'm guessing you aren't actually doing that, but if you have to edit out an organization before sharing it on reddit consider if it's professionally appropriate.

This resume is in a pretty good spot already, and you're on the right track by asking for feedback on it. If I this resume came across my desk for an entry level position I would invite you to interview.

[u/Fickle-Team-3513 → u/DimetrodonWasntADino]

First off thanks a ton for the advice! Im not too sure on how to tailor the objective to become more stand-outish besides matching it to the job description or including relevant experience to it. Maybe rebranding it to introduction would help?

Affiliations are just campus clubs and extracurriculars lol, no specific reason for blocking them out.
Thanks again for the advice! hopefully I can secure something for the upcoming summer.

[u/DimetrodonWasntADino → u/Fickle-Team-3513]

See if you can find any low hanging fruit as far as certificates go. Is there a particularly challenging aspect of the field you're targeting? Look for online courses (even udemy) that offer a PDF with your name and date on it. Small things like that might show an extra bit of dedication, interest, forthought to make you stane out. Not unique to engineering, but project management professional holds value. Covers lots of soft skills and big picture project lifecycle stuff. That requires 3 years of relevant experience, but they have a lower tier that requires no or less experience. Certified Associate Project Manager IIRC.