Mechanical Engineer Intern Interview Questions

“Asked some theoretical design questions on what they were working on. Question statement was vague because they could not give me any details. Not particularly difficult though.”

“Tell me about yourself. Are you familiar with Solidworks, AutoCAD,etc?”

“The interviewer drew a diagram of a problem in which a switch was not accessible where it needed to be and asked me to come up with solutions.”

“An example of a tough question would be. How did you handle a failure? That was about as tough as it gets.”

“They brought in a downhole drilling piece of equipment that they were designing and asked questions as to what I would do to improve the design and how I would overcome certain obstacles that they…”

“No difficult questions asked”

“One of the projects I worked on was making a vacuum cleaner. The question asked was to explain how the fan laws worked on the vacuum's fan.”

“What is the best project that you have worked on till now?”

“He asked about 4-5 behavioral STAR questions; Name a time you worked successfully as part of a group, name a time you had to seek help from someone else, name a time you overcame something…”