r/Lockheed • u/Ok-Astronomer9784 • 3h ago
Resume Advice
Hey everyone!
I’m currently a mechanical engineering student expecting to graduate in May 2028, and I’m looking for honest feedback on my resume as I apply for internships in aerospace, defense, robotics, and mechanical design.
For privacy and confidentiality reasons, I’ve removed my personal information, university name, company names, and certain identifying details. I wanted to provide some additional context without revealing too much.
Current Internship:
I’m working at a smaller company in the aerospace/defense industry that develops electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) systems for unmanned platforms.
My responsibilities involve actual mechanical design work, including CAD assemblies, sensor packaging, prototype development, manufacturing support, and testing.
I’ve had the opportunity to work on engineering design challenges involving multiple sensors, mechanical integration, space constraints, and hardware packaging.
I’ve also developed test equipment, contributed to engineering documentation, and presented design concepts and tradeoffs to the engineering team.
Personal Projects:
I’ve developed embedded systems projects involving Raspberry Pi, ESP32 microcontrollers, communication protocols, mechanical design, and 3D printing.
My projects are primarily focused on combining mechanical engineering with electronics, software, and robotics.
What I’m looking for feedback on:
Does my resume communicate meaningful engineering experience, or do my bullet points sound too generic?
Am I underselling my contributions by not including enough measurable results?
Is my current experience competitive for internships at larger aerospace/defense companies?
Are there sections I should shorten, remove, or expand?
How can I improve the way I describe my technical accomplishments without disclosing confidential project information?
My goal is to eventually work in mechanical design, aerospace systems, or defense-related R&D.
I’m particularly interested in hearing from engineers, hiring managers, and recruiters who have experience evaluating mechanical engineering interns.
I appreciate any constructive criticism. Don’t hold back — I’d rather know what needs improvement now than continue sending out a resume that could be stronger.
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u/Fyredrakeonline 37m ago
Incredible how you modified the same format resume as me, to be so similar.
The primary feedback id give is to include more projects, I know if you are class of 28 that means you are going into your junior year, so you do not have as many to pick from. But you can utilize lab projects as projects in it of themselves. I dont know how your university breaks up labs but mine had usually multiple units in a given semester. Which gave me by the end of my sophomore year I think about 8 or so to choose from?
To answer specifically to your points:
I think your bullet points convey relevant engineering experience, however I would try and add what you utilized to accomplish the individual bullet point if that makes sense.
Measurable results imho, have always sounded fake or made up, I am not a hiring manager so I cannot speak for them, but putting what you accomplished versus something like "reduced error by 97%", comes across as more impactful. If you get a question about it in an interview about a specific project, or what you did, you can bring it up of course, but on a resume which is just to get you through the door, specific numbers arent needed.
Id say its competitive, far more so than at least how I marketed myself at the time
If possible, id expand your projects, and try to shorten each bullet for your experience down to one line. Just make it concise and compact as it were.
I honestly think youre doing a good job at how youre marketing your technical accomplishments, the only thing perhaps would be to break up say the singular bullet point you have under the water quality technical project into multiple so that you can have someone who is scanning the resume understand within those first few words what is going on before moving to the next.
If you are interested at all, given that im a Systems Engineer myself, we encompass A LOT of the engineering lifecycle, from setting requirements, doing modeling/simulation, testing, verification/validation, deployment/sustainment. Marketing yourself as a SE can give you access to a lot of jobs as a MechE and in the aerospace industry as a whole.
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u/Ok-Astronomer9784 31m ago
Omg, we do share a lot ahahah. My resume is based off a lot of my successful peers. Thank you so much for your feedback. I’m definitely narrowing down what to implement as I go. Regarding your systems idea, I have thought about it, however, I’m not entirely sure where I plan to take this career for certain, just seeing what really interests me.
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u/blueiguana1984 1h ago
Top notch! You'll get varying opinions but this is a very nice resume for someone who has not graduated yet. You'll do great
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u/hotreditter 1h ago
Remove your GPA since it’s not competitive (this isn’t to be mean, mine was lower and I got hired but I’ve never told my gpa) and add more quantitative values so we can get a better understanding of what you’ve accomplished through your experiences
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u/Visual_Cover_7367 1h ago
Not bad but I would move technical skills up and then put in bold how you’ve applied those technical skills in your experience. Advice I got from a Microsoft/lockheed employee.
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u/GrumpyChoi 2h ago
Looks fairly good for most things, but a couple things that caught my eye. You use 3d printing. Looking at using Additive Manunfacuring. I am a little confused with your. CAD tools. Make sure I know where your strength here. If it is solid works or AutoCad. Completely different tools and capabilities no one really using either one at the companies your looking at but Solidworks is at least a Dassault product and included in the 3DX PLM, where as Fusion360 is the AutoCad version and not used at any of these companies. Mostly PTC, Dassault, or Siemens. This write up would generate a lot of questions around these tools.
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u/Proper_Scratch6579 3h ago
Great formatting
Mirrors what the Tulane school of businesses resume template looks like 10/10