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California Department of Water Resources

Engineering Assistant

June - August 2020 • Sacramento, CA

What I liked

Close guidance from my mentor and project team member in developing engineering and financial analysis models.

What I wish was different

Advice

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Student Engineer (E+A)

June 2023 • Byron, CA

What I liked

I love working with engineers in different field, which made me learn a lot of things in different fields.

What I wish was different

I wish that we have been assigned a mentor, so we it would have been easy to reflect on things I have been done and what could I have done better, and not repeat that in future..

Advice

I would suggest to be openminded when working with different kind of people and always ready to learn new knowledge. Be a sponge.
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engineering student assistant

June 2017 - August 2021 • Oroville, CA

What I liked

very real, hands on experience, I was able to work around power plants and help the engineers with their projects. I got a very good idea of what electrical engineers do day to day.

What I wish was different

I wish there were other students like myself, it would have made the work experience more enjoyable

Advice

Learn as much as you can
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Student assistant

January 2018 - August 2019 • Sacramento, CA

What I liked

Exposed to professional engineering work

What I wish was different

Been more exposed to subject matter that related to my major

Advice

Understand that an internship is work and by putting in effort good will come out of it
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