If you are finding a job and reading this, please do exactly what this guy said, I did the same thing and found a job that I like and pays well almost immediately. This video is pure gold, I can’t thank him enough.
I am satisfied that I discovered this channel, the insightful commentary on engineering is beneficial, listening to other amateur and professional engineers helps provide a solid understanding. My Grandpa is my only family member in the engineering field, and I could only receive so much insight from him, since he worked for the government as a Civil Engineer most of his life and is now retired.
Another great video, thanks! This is the main reason I've been doing so many personal projects this last year. Every experienced engineer I've talked to has emphasized the importance of past projects - especially if you have little or no work experience.
I really wished that I knew about this before I took my majors back in my undergrad. Instead of finishing the projects assigned by my professors with the mindset of wanting to get it out of the way, I could've taken a different approach in completing those projects so that they are "portfolio-worthy".
My professor said the exact same thing. He doesn't like reading resumes, he wants to see our projects. His class requires us to have a digital portfolio site with our projects
Since this was so long ago, idk if you'll reply but I really hope you do lol. What was the website that you were required to use? I'm trying to make a digital portfolio asap for an application but I have no idea what site to use.
I haven’t start my portfolio yet but I really love how you make it. The way of how deliver what you did is minimalistic and precise. I definitely will adapt this. Thanks for sharing! I’m fresh EE btw
Wanted to say I spent the last day using your template to update my portfolio both on a website and in pdf with different info for different types of resumes. I'm super pleased with the way it turned out and can't wait to share it with companies. THANK YOU for taking the time to walk us through the steps and add serious value.
This is the way! As a former hiring manage in high technology, I saw plenty of great resumes from candidates from top schools and who had outstanding grades. Personally, I wanted some indication that the candidate had actual, proven real-world experience. I think it's a great idea to provide a portfolio along with your resume. People in other fields, mostly the humanities, do this all the time. Also, should you score the face-to-face interview, but sure to prepare a binder with more details about projects in your portfolio. Hopefully, you can tie the needs of the hiring manager back to your relevant skills demonstrated by a project in your portfolio.
Due to employment documentation situations, I am not able to apply for jobs at the moment; That being said, Tamer, you are awesome. I started a business and your advice has helped me a lot in both my engineering and business journeys! Much love, all the best!
I hire mechanical engineering co-ops from Waterloo. I won't say that this video is giving bad advice, it IS mostly good, I DO want to see your projects and this style is OVERALL good. However, when near EVERY SINGLE RESUME I LOOK AT (90%+) has this guy's exact same portfolio template (down to layout, font, colour scheme and all), it says to me that all you can do is copy the work of someone else and you are content in having no personality; its overall incredibly off-putting. For those students listening to this guy, PLEASE put your own spin on it. Show me that you have an ounce of creativity in your body. The best engineers are those that can meld creativity with technical know-how. Prove to me you have that and you are better than a photo-copier. Use this as a baseline, but just... be yourself as well. Don't just be Tamer Shaheen.
I wish I could do a portfolio as I generally don't know how to describe things I have worked on, but I work on proprietary information and have a clearance for my job. I also don't have very many personal projects currently.
I am going through the same thing, I have worked(participated) on projects and I feel I don't know how to describe them or neither did I have good pictures for my portfolio too. So have you been able to figure it out and how did you go about it please?
For the projects, does it have to be 100% original or can you include projects you've done just simply following UA-cam videos that people have already designed and made?
Hi Mate, your video is very helpful for me to develop my mechanical engineering portfolio. I am unable to download the template but doesn’t matter I developed one in word.
Awesome video, and super happy to see it coming from someone who shares some of my career interest. I'm also interested in electric vehicles and battery technology, however, I don't really take a lot of pictures, I have a bad habit of just getting things done and not documenting it because I don't want to be on social media and I don't want to be the guy always taking pictures. So what would you say to someone who doesn't have a lot of pictures, but does have research experience that they would like to share? Should I still create a portfolio? I just don't think I'll have the pictures to back it up.
Hi, I’ve watched almost all your videos but you’ve never gave us a close look at petroleum engineering program. I’m a freshman at college and I’m planning on majoring in PE , can you please share some of your knowledge in the field? Do you recommend it? Is it hard? What is it mainly about? And you know , you’re normal engineering programs analysis. That would be much appreciated! Thank you.
"Great video! I currently work as a design engineer in an automobile interiors company. Since the projects I work on are highly sensitive, I cannot disclose specific details about them. Could you please suggest how I can create a portfolio under these constraints?"
Thanks for the vid. I’m a rising fourth year electrical engineering student and I really want add a portfolio to stand out for full time positions. I did a lot of cool projects during my coursework, some of which I created websites, videos or official papers for. How could I best implement those in the portfolio? Make a portfolio website with links to the videos, etc?
Im in my undergrad and had a research paper published in the journal of engineering materials and manufacture. Wondering if should I include it in my portfolio ?? Please let me know what you think
Yea whenever I get hungry, I go eat. So, usually every 4 to 5 hours. Also, I would have my water bottle next time so I don't need to leave my desk to get a drink.
Can I add my own personal projects to the portfolio? And with those I mean hobby projects I pursued on my own just out of interest and without business application (There was no economical intention behind those, just curiosity).
What do you think about a Google drive document for a portfolio. I think it's the most versatile way to share work because it hast eh ability to add all kinds of photos, files and other documents with ease. Should I also add my past projects to it that don't necessarily reflect my mechanical engineering skills like a diy chess set, a forest watchtower, a diy viking shield?
thanks for your descriptions, it's really useful but i want to ask you to speak slowly because some one like me are not native English speaker and its make that hard to understand.🙏
I graduated with mechanical engineering major an year ago. I have not done any remarkable and relevant projects during my degree. Can you please suggest how I can find projects and do them to boost my resume now?
Hi Tamer, thank you for this video and template! When you mentioned combining your portfolio and resume you didn’t include a cover letter. Do you recommend a cover letter with your application? Thank you!
How do you showcase your projects from work when you sign NDA's with these companies? A lot of my skills come from work related designs but I have no way of (legally)sharing them.
You really shouldn't. This stopped me from trying the same thing as even my internships and senior design work was under NDA. You can describe it but you probably dont want pictures or models. Edit: read the NDA, dont take my describing it as legal advice
Can anyone explain what he means by using your theoretical know how to your advantage, I am currently starting a mechanical engineering degree, does he mean in interviews or in the portfolio? If in the portfolio how would you show off your theoretical know how, do you go into detail? I feel like employers won’t want too much theory
Hey Tamer, I noticed the tip you said at the end about including the theoretical knowledge, but how would you include that in a portfolio? Is that something you can put at the end? Or on your resume?
Amazing video. I was going to ask if it’s possible to share projects worked on at work but you cleared my doubts at the end of the video. Another question is, what motivated to switch from a multinational like Tesla to a startup? I’ve seen some other people do that and I’ve been wondering why.
Hi tamer, im in high school and it would help me a lot to know what math classes you took in high school or something relating to your time in high school before pursuing mechanical engineering.
How did you get company approval to post pics on your portfolio and show on websites? I’m trying to see what I’m allowed to show from my projects at internships.
What if I haven't done enough projects or maybe even have evidence of doing them to make a portfolio? Is there any way I can like find projects to do online and use their results in my portfolio?
I have always wanted to create a portfolio with pictures and a summary for the part/product like you said. My biggest hindrance is that the projects I am involved in are NPI with NDA. How would you bypass that?
What if they ask for additional documents do I attach my portfolio there or still keep it to my resume. And what if additional documents options is not there, does attaching portfolio make to the resume goes through the ats software and to the recruiter?
question in regards to the sub heading under your name. are you a current student at the university or have you just put that there as that's the university you attended? i am no longer a student but wasn't sure if I should still put my university name on there. cheers
Hi Tamer. I am a mechanical design engineer myself. Please help me with portfolio creation. If the interviewer asks should my portfolio me 1 page or a booklet (if i have several works to showcase)?
Hello is it possible to let us know about extra courses that we can learn on the side like autocad and solidworks or is it sufficient if we just learn them from UA-cam and thank you so much for these videos really helpful for us
best way to lear how to model is to actually do some real projects. go on upwork, get a job and start working. or just think some new product on your own
Hi, Tamer, do you know engineers from the CIS countries, it is known that other state standards are used in these countries, in your opinion, is work experience suitable when moving, is there a chance to find a job? I'm sorry for my english, I don't have much experience in communication
I am applying for masters in Mechanical Engineering and in that we require to submit CV or resume. So I was wondering, will it be good idea to attach portfolio in my resume while applying to stand out. Can anyone help me with this.
If you are finding a job and reading this, please do exactly what this guy said, I did the same thing and found a job that I like and pays well almost immediately. This video is pure gold, I can’t thank him enough.
I read this exact comment and followed everything through, got my favourite co-op! I'll always have my portfolio moving forward.
Thanks for keeping the promise on dropping a portfolio vid! Subbed
For sure. It took me a while, but I finally got to it :)
I am satisfied that I discovered this channel, the insightful commentary on engineering is beneficial, listening to other amateur and professional engineers helps provide a solid understanding. My Grandpa is my only family member in the engineering field, and I could only receive so much insight from him, since he worked for the government as a Civil Engineer most of his life and is now retired.
Another great video, thanks! This is the main reason I've been doing so many personal projects this last year. Every experienced engineer I've talked to has emphasized the importance of past projects - especially if you have little or no work experience.
hey! What kind of personal projects have you done? I am just stuck as to what i should do
This was gold. Applying to an internship that’s asking for a project portfolio and had no idea what that was. Love and blessings to you brother.
The amount of interviews i got with your portfolio tips is a blessing. Thank you, i appreciate your content. Happy Holidays!
I really wished that I knew about this before I took my majors back in my undergrad. Instead of finishing the projects assigned by my professors with the mindset of wanting to get it out of the way, I could've taken a different approach in completing those projects so that they are "portfolio-worthy".
My professor said the exact same thing. He doesn't like reading resumes, he wants to see our projects. His class requires us to have a digital portfolio site with our projects
Since this was so long ago, idk if you'll reply but I really hope you do lol. What was the website that you were required to use? I'm trying to make a digital portfolio asap for an application but I have no idea what site to use.
@@Missirene09 we used digication. But I think only students can use it
well, he's a professor not an employer but he isn't wrong tho
@@Missirene09 I can design a digital portfolio website for you tho.
I haven’t start my portfolio yet but I really love how you make it. The way of how deliver what you did is minimalistic and precise. I definitely will adapt this. Thanks for sharing! I’m fresh EE btw
no universities or other videos that I have seen explain it this well great job on the video
Appreciate that
Wanted to say I spent the last day using your template to update my portfolio both on a website and in pdf with different info for different types of resumes. I'm super pleased with the way it turned out and can't wait to share it with companies. THANK YOU for taking the time to walk us through the steps and add serious value.
so did you get any jobs?
Thankyou❤ . I landed a design engineer job due to this portfolio template.
This was really insightful! Thank you so much for this video. I've really noted down major hints and I'm off to begin implementing!
This is the way! As a former hiring manage in high technology, I saw plenty of great resumes from candidates from top schools and who had outstanding grades. Personally, I wanted some indication that the candidate had actual, proven real-world experience. I think it's a great idea to provide a portfolio along with your resume. People in other fields, mostly the humanities, do this all the time. Also, should you score the face-to-face interview, but sure to prepare a binder with more details about projects in your portfolio. Hopefully, you can tie the needs of the hiring manager back to your relevant skills demonstrated by a project in your portfolio.
I was confused as recent graduate engineer .thank you so so much your videos helped me
Great video!!
I’m studying Solidworks course in this semester... I will be more interested in it !
same! it seems sm fun
Due to employment documentation situations, I am not able to apply for jobs at the moment; That being said, Tamer, you are awesome. I started a business and your advice has helped me a lot in both my engineering and business journeys! Much love, all the best!
Im looking for a year long internship, so im gonna try and use the portfolio alongside my resume. Hopefully I can get more interviews!!
That's pretty cool, mate. Thank you for sharing
The most organized video ever!
I hire mechanical engineering co-ops from Waterloo. I won't say that this video is giving bad advice, it IS mostly good, I DO want to see your projects and this style is OVERALL good.
However, when near EVERY SINGLE RESUME I LOOK AT (90%+) has this guy's exact same portfolio template (down to layout, font, colour scheme and all), it says to me that all you can do is copy the work of someone else and you are content in having no personality; its overall incredibly off-putting. For those students listening to this guy, PLEASE put your own spin on it. Show me that you have an ounce of creativity in your body. The best engineers are those that can meld creativity with technical know-how. Prove to me you have that and you are better than a photo-copier.
Use this as a baseline, but just... be yourself as well. Don't just be Tamer Shaheen.
Hi Tamer
Soy nuevo en tu canal, y me parece fabuloso el trabajo que haces compartiendo tus experiencias
Legend! Extremely helpful video
Thanks Tamer, this was great!
awesome idea and well-explained!
So helpful! Your mom is proud.
Thanks for the video man. It really helped a lot
Thank you very much!! You really helped me today.
Thank you so much Tamer!
Wow! , amazing explanation,thank you very much.
thanks man for these videos
great video!
awesome video mate thankyou heaps
amazing projects, plus I liked your presentation approach.
this one really help thank you!
great content! thank you
You're a legend
I wish I could do a portfolio as I generally don't know how to describe things I have worked on, but I work on proprietary information and have a clearance for my job. I also don't have very many personal projects currently.
I am going through the same thing, I have worked(participated) on projects and I feel I don't know how to describe them or neither did I have good pictures for my portfolio too. So have you been able to figure it out and how did you go about it please?
For the projects, does it have to be 100% original or can you include projects you've done just simply following UA-cam videos that people have already designed and made?
Hi Mate, your video is very helpful for me to develop my mechanical engineering portfolio.
I am unable to download the template but doesn’t matter I developed one in word.
Awesome video, and super happy to see it coming from someone who shares some of my career interest. I'm also interested in electric vehicles and battery technology, however, I don't really take a lot of pictures, I have a bad habit of just getting things done and not documenting it because I don't want to be on social media and I don't want to be the guy always taking pictures. So what would you say to someone who doesn't have a lot of pictures, but does have research experience that they would like to share? Should I still create a portfolio? I just don't think I'll have the pictures to back it up.
Great content !
Thank you!
Nice vid!
Thanks for the presentation, it was awesome! Please, where can i download the template-portfolio?
Great video
This is so helpful! Thank you much! Could you do a video showing companies where it is best to work as a mechanical design engineer?
what a stupid request
@@XzzVttll impressive how someone can fall asleep after requesting this
Depends on the country you're in.
satisfying video
I think it’s what i miss. Portafolio.
Hi, I’ve watched almost all your videos but you’ve never gave us a close look at petroleum engineering program. I’m a freshman at college and I’m planning on majoring in PE , can you please share some of your knowledge in the field? Do you recommend it? Is it hard? What is it mainly about? And you know , you’re normal engineering programs analysis. That would be much appreciated!
Thank you.
"Great video! I currently work as a design engineer in an automobile interiors company. Since the projects I work on are highly sensitive, I cannot disclose specific details about them. Could you please suggest how I can create a portfolio under these constraints?"
Thanks for the vid. I’m a rising fourth year electrical engineering student and I really want add a portfolio to stand out for full time positions. I did a lot of cool projects during my coursework, some of which I created websites, videos or official papers for. How could I best implement those in the portfolio? Make a portfolio website with links to the videos, etc?
This is the integrated part of getting accepted in any company that should be taught in schools.
Im in my undergrad and had a research paper published in the journal of engineering materials and manufacture. Wondering if should I include it in my portfolio ?? Please let me know what you think
For me absolutely
Yea I think it's def worth a mention. It also depends on the types of roles you're applying to.
Great video. Btw bro what do you used to eat or drink during long study sessions like 8 to 10 hours of study. What kept you awake and running.
Yea whenever I get hungry, I go eat. So, usually every 4 to 5 hours. Also, I would have my water bottle next time so I don't need to leave my desk to get a drink.
Can I add my own personal projects to the portfolio? And with those I mean hobby projects I pursued on my own just out of interest and without business application (There was no economical intention behind those, just curiosity).
What do you think about a Google drive document for a portfolio.
I think it's the most versatile way to share work because it hast eh ability to add all kinds of photos, files and other documents with ease.
Should I also add my past projects to it that don't necessarily reflect my mechanical engineering skills like a diy chess set, a forest watchtower, a diy viking shield?
thanks
thanks for your descriptions, it's really useful but i want to ask you to speak slowly because some one like me are not native English speaker and its make that hard to understand.🙏
Can you make a video of things we need to have for engineering( what kind of laptop and everything)?
I graduated with mechanical engineering major an year ago. I have not done any remarkable and relevant projects during my degree. Can you please suggest how I can find projects and do them to boost my resume now?
Hi Tamer, thank you for this video and template! When you mentioned combining your portfolio and resume you didn’t include a cover letter. Do you recommend a cover letter with your application? Thank you!
How do you showcase your projects from work when you sign NDA's with these companies? A lot of my skills come from work related designs but I have no way of (legally)sharing them.
You really shouldn't. This stopped me from trying the same thing as even my internships and senior design work was under NDA. You can describe it but you probably dont want pictures or models.
Edit: read the NDA, dont take my describing it as legal advice
One trick would be to take photos from your companies websites because those are public domain. Same with Patents once filed
I know I may sound shallow af but maaaan I need your room tour
Can anyone explain what he means by using your theoretical know how to your advantage, I am currently starting a mechanical engineering degree, does he mean in interviews or in the portfolio? If in the portfolio how would you show off your theoretical know how, do you go into detail? I feel like employers won’t want too much theory
Hey Tamer, I noticed the tip you said at the end about including the theoretical knowledge, but how would you include that in a portfolio? Is that something you can put at the end? Or on your resume?
Amazing video. I was going to ask if it’s possible to share projects worked on at work but you cleared my doubts at the end of the video.
Another question is, what motivated to switch from a multinational like Tesla to a startup? I’ve seen some other people do that and I’ve been wondering why.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hi tamer, im in high school and it would help me a lot to know what math classes you took in high school or something relating to your time in high school before pursuing mechanical engineering.
take what you can for math
🍻 cheers
:) ily Tamer
How did you get company approval to post pics on your portfolio and show on websites? I’m trying to see what I’m allowed to show from my projects at internships.
What if I haven't done enough projects or maybe even have evidence of doing them to make a portfolio? Is there any way I can like find projects to do online and use their results in my portfolio?
Please what app did you use to design this portfolio 🙏🏿
I have always wanted to create a portfolio with pictures and a summary for the part/product like you said. My biggest hindrance is that the projects I am involved in are NPI with NDA. How would you bypass that?
BTW, your video is great!
Can I please have your portfolio template? Thanks
Most of my good works are owned by companies. So, is it right to add it in my portfolio, where I show specific projects to show my skills??
What if they ask for additional documents do I attach my portfolio there or still keep it to my resume.
And what if additional documents options is not there, does attaching portfolio make to the resume goes through the ats software and to the recruiter?
question in regards to the sub heading under your name. are you a current student at the university or have you just put that there as that's the university you attended? i am no longer a student but wasn't sure if I should still put my university name on there. cheers
where is the canva template, I can't find it
As an electrical engineer should I make a portfolio
The template is no longer up. Does anyone have the link?
Hi, I’ve a question about if I can use the engineering portfolio while I’m applying to undergraduate degree?
love your vedios
Appreciate it
Hi Tamer. I am a mechanical design engineer myself. Please help me with portfolio creation. If the interviewer asks should my portfolio me 1 page or a booklet (if i have several works to showcase)?
Link to this portfolio Template?
Hello is it possible to let us know about extra courses that we can learn on the side like autocad and solidworks or is it sufficient if we just learn them from UA-cam and thank you so much for these videos really helpful for us
best way to lear how to model is to actually do some real projects. go on upwork, get a job and start working. or just think some new product on your own
do they also scan portfolio through ATS? If yes, then How can I improve it to pass through?
can we use the portfolios(assignments) we prepared for university masters?
im a junior in h.s applying to college next year, and have make some projects would a portfolio be useful to me?
Hi, Tamer, do you know engineers from the CIS countries, it is known that other state standards are used in these countries, in your opinion, is work experience suitable when moving, is there a chance to find a job? I'm sorry for my english, I don't have much experience in communication
Do you guys start ur own projects in the first year??
Do you work at Serve?
Do we need to use licensed softwares for our projects?
Hello. I'm working as a Quality Engineer in Manufacturing industry what can create as portfolio
Bro what is the role given to you at tesla?
Would someone applying for project management simply list bullet points stating their concrete role in managing a project
is it worth to learn catia or solidwrks??
Tamer, you are an inspiration my friend 🔥 also you’re kinda cute no homo
LMAOO thanks bro
I have made over 10 personal projects in solidworks but I haven't built them in real, so I don't know the real world results.
What should I do?
I have the same problem
press shift + delete button when you select "Projects" folder
I am applying for masters in Mechanical Engineering and in that we require to submit CV or resume.
So I was wondering, will it be good idea to attach portfolio in my resume while applying to stand out.
Can anyone help me with this.