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CAREER

  • Internships

          1.  It is highly recommended to get internships during your college career.  It gives you exposure to how you can apply your IE degree in a real world environment.  

          2.  Steps to getting an internship

    • Create a resume

    • Get your resume critiqued by Career and Employment Services (CES) http://www.k-state.edu/ces/

    • Join Career and Employment Services in September

    • Go to the Career Fair held in September at Bramlage Coliseum

    • Be Determined and Network, Network, Network!!

                3.  Places IMSE students have interned with Places IMSE students have interned with 

  • Advanced Manufacturing Institute
    - Manhattan, KS 
    - Service
    - Worked on simuations, layout designs, capacity analysis, other consulting projects

  • General Mills
    - Vallejo, CA / Buffalo, NY / Des Moines, IA / Los Angeles, CA / Great Falls, MT
    - Manufaturing
    - Milling intern in charge of a packing line audit and a remodeling project in the mill.  Also worked on many other smaller projects.

  • Caterpillar
    - Wamego, KS
    - Manufacturing
    - All aspects of Industrial Engineering

  • Ventue Corp
    - Great Bend, KS
    - Service

  • Lockheed Martin
    - Fort Worth, TX
    - Manufacturing
    - Six Sigma, Kaizen Events, Gage Capability Studies

  • Foot Locker
    - Junction City, KS
    - Distribution
    - Developing standards, Autocad, Excel

  • Altec
    -     St. Joseph, MO
    - Manufacturing
    - Implementing lean manufacturing techniques and practices

  • KCRI
    - Liberal, KS
    - Service
    - KS Community Service Team

  • Procter & Gamble
    - Kansas City, KS
    - Manufacturing
    - Worked on Dawn, Ivory, and Joy packing line projects.  Also did a cost analysis project on energy reuse

  • ExxonMobil
    - Houston, TX
    - Service
    - Developed a database using Microsoft Access with procurement actions in the department of Exploration Procurement 

  • Professional

                1.  Mentors

  • Attend Mentor Day
    - Sponsored by IIE
    - Talk with professional IEs and tour the facilities they work at

  • Join MentorNet
    - http://www.mentornet.net/
    - E-Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science

                 2.  Engineering Licensure

  • Become licensed as a professional engineer

  • Benefits
    - Demonstrates that you've accomplished a recognized standard
    - Sets you apart from others in your profession
    - Provides career options and opportunities that might not have been available otherwise
    - Serves as a protection of public health, safety, and welfare

  • Steps to be taken:
    - Take the FE Exam (offered every April and October here on campus and is usually taken during your senior year)
    - Graduate from an ABET accredited engineering program
    - Get engineering experience (This varies from state to state, but will most likely need to work under a professional engineer.
    - Take the PE Exam

               3.  Places IMSE graduates have gone to work

  • Procter & Gamble

  • ExxonMobil

  • Nestle

  • General Mills

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield

  • Payless Shoe Source

  • Hallmark Cards

               4.  Personal Experiences from IE graduates

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  • Interviewing

                1.  Career and Employment Services

               2.  The Student Zone

               3.  Monster.com