Test Engineering Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
It is essential within Test Engineering to stay organised and set out your day in terms of priority. Communication between yourself and customers helps you identify targets quickly. It is then important to create clear instructions for a given test plan so that when the Engine is running the data collected is useful. Troubleshooting issues when they arise allow you to test your problem solving skills.
Skills
Presentational skills, this is continuously tested within the role as every morning you have to present what your Test Cell has done to the rest of the team so that a plan of action can be made quickly and any problems seen can be identified. Organisation skill has definitely developed as you have to be prepared constantly at this role
Responsibilities
Yes, within this role you essentially are responsible for a prototype Engine which would cost a lot of money if anything fails. It is your duty to make sure any issues are logged in documents.
Support & Guidance
There is always someone around to help out if there are any issues. As the Test Engineering team has to reach out to so many different roles in R&D it is extremely helpful to ask different teams about issues you may see during troubleshooting as they may have encountered the issue before
Culture
The Company is very welcoming, they understand that as a student, you will need more support so everyone is extremely helpful. When anything comes up which you are unsure about, there are plenty of people to go to.
Your Impressions
I think it has taught me a lot about how the industry works. I have enjoyed learning how to act at a work place and seeing how other Engineers approach problems, however, because it is a placement, a lot of the problems which require troubleshooting tend to be solved by other team members, or solved with loads of supervision.
Yes
That Cummins is a good company which will test your abilities to approach engineering problems.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Automotive Engineering
North East
May 2023
