1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Why are you leaving your current position?

3. Do you use apple product and which is your favorite?
4. How would you sort out issues you have with co-workers
5. Where do you see yourself in 5 years and how will this job help you reach that goal?
6. What will you do if the client asked for more features and you are already behind schedule
7. Most unexpected question is which part of your PhD work makes you proud the most.
8. Heat transfer: know conduction, convection and thermodynamics basics as it relates to enclosure
Injection molding: define key features, where gate was, how the mold worked.
Material selection: aluminum vs. steel, which one has higher UTS under a bending problem,
looking at an existing part and describe what material it is.
9. A cube (1-1-1m) of ice in a room (50C) sitting on a wooden table. The ice is 1m away from the
walls around its 4 sides, except for 1 side is 30cm away. You're given 2 insulating blankets (1m
by 1m) that can be used to cover the ice block. The goal is to keep the ice in solid form as long as
possible. Where would you put the blankets?
2 rectangular beams, one is aluminum a by 2b cross-section one is steel a by b cross-section. If
you were to climb a mountain and find these two sticking out on a spot where you need to rest,
which one would you latch on to?
Interviewee shows a plastic part and asks: How do you think I built this part? What other ways
can you think of this part could have been done? Every interviewer brought a piece from an
Apple product and asked me what material it was and how it was made. (Tell me all the ways you
could possible manufacture this part (shown in person). Then each interviewer would present a
component and ask how it was made. Definitely be able to justify and explain each material and
design decisions on past projects that you talk about. Also should be very familiar with casting
and other metal manufacturing processes.)
10. You have a sign hanging at the end of a straight aluminum beam with a square cross-section. You
notice that there is significant deflection in the beam. What are some design modifications you
can make to reduce the deflection? If you were then asked to change the beam's cross-sectional,
would you increase the vertical or horizontal dimension and why?
11. But then I was asked how my water bottle was manufactured and what material it was.
12. Different engineering metals (stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, etc.) and where
they sit respective to one another in their specs (Modulus of elasticity, density, tensile strength,
magnetic or nonmagnetic)Different engineering plastics (PC, ABS, Delrin, etc) and their primary
uses.
13. What are 4 ways to connect a plastic and a metal?
14. What are 5 ways to put a hole in a sheet of metal?
15. What are the different ways you can you tell if this part is steel or aluminium.
16. If you and a large brick are in a boat floating in a pool, will the water level rise or fall when the
brick is tossed into the water? What if the brick is a large piece of foam?
17. Explain Ashby diagrams (or Ashby plots) to me.
18. You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin slowly increasing the speed. What
happens first - does the glass slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out.

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