The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

2017 Sophomore BS Mech Eng semifinalist here. To all recipients who received the award, can you answer the following questions?

1. Were you Interviewed by a/your SF?
2. What kind of interview? (phone, skype, etc)
3. How long of an interview?
4. What kind of questions were asked?

Feel free to add any more helpful info. Thanks!

tb9723 wrote:2017 Sophomore BS Mech Eng semifinalist here. To all recipients who received the award, can you answer the following questions?

1. Were you Interviewed by a/your SF?
2. What kind of interview? (phone, skype, etc)
3. How long of an interview?
4. What kind of questions were asked?

Feel free to add any more helpful info. Thanks!

Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student:

1. Yes
2. Phone
3. About 30 minutes
4. I was involved with research as an undergrad, and so a lot of the phone interview revolved around my current research.

Feel free to ask more.

1. No

Probably don't need to answer the rest.

Computer & Information Technology Undergrad

1. Yes
2. Conference call
3. 30 minutes
4. Basic interview questions (teamwork, personality, etc...) Why I would want to work for them and be apart of SMART. After that it went into some broad technical questions.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

Optical Engineering PhD

1. Yes
2. Phone/Conference call
3. Around 30 minutes on two separate occasions
4. They didn't really interview me so much as they asked me if I was interested in working for them. Mostly talked about the facility, and the questions I was asked were to find out if there was something they could say to persuade me to say yes.

Good luck!

a.) Yes
b.) Conference Call
c.) 30 - 45 minutes
d.) Basic interview questions, future goals and why you have those goals, they talked a lot about the SF and even told me the places that most of the recipients tend to live etc. The people at my SF are super nice, it wasn't an intimidating phone call at all.