HI all!
I'll cut right to the chase, I'm a second year Aerospace student from a tier 3 college. And was just looking at opportunities for the summer.
I had applied to several core engg firms for me to spend my 2 months at but it was really difficult to secure one as I feel that most of these opportunities are made for third year students, so there are a lot of domains where I lack such as CFD and a bit of FEA. Albeit, I do have one and they are also paying me (peanuts and butter).
But I also plan to pursue masters soon after my bachelors and all the people who I've talked to in academia have said that a research internship will be much more helpful to you in all aspects. All that said, I'm also confident that I'll be able to join as a research intern to either Dr. Mrinal Kaushik, Rajaram Lakkaraju or Chetan Sureshbhai Mistry.
Although a research internship is definitely very exciting for me but also a little overwhelming at the same time. I just wanted to ask, first of all what is expected from a research intern who happens to have just completed their 2nd year and wants to go all in on core engg. And second of all, any comments on the above mentioned professors?