I graduated nearly 3 years ago in Product Design BSc, although this wasn’t a traditional engineer course I covered lots of modules which were on the BENG course at the same uni (CAD, materials, design engineering, group projects, manufacturing and operations management, etc).
There are very few opportunities in Product Design, so I have been looking at Design Engineering as an alternative, as I keep hearing there is demand for people in this sector, but I cannot get a look in, even for CAD monkey jobs.
I managed to get a 6 month placement with an electronics manufacturer and worked on a process improvement engineering project (lean etc), with the hope of perhaps getting some experience in their design department, but this was a total no go. Is production or process engineering worth getting into?
Just wondering what I am doing wrong and where to go from here, before I try something else.
PS I am in my early 30s, if that matters