Writing a cover letter for Apple Product Design Engineering internship

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

engstrom0304

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Hey Guys,
Im writing a Cover letter for an Apple Product Design Engineering Internship. I explain that I designed and built a new case for the PS3, for superior cooling performance, but I feel like it would be beneficial for the person reading it to see the photos. These are the photos Id like to include but is it too weird to include photos in a cover letter? Or perhaps I could put a tiny url .com link to them?

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I send images in pdf's all the time. Part of a cv for a designer, should always include a cover letter, cv, and portfolio. Just add it to the bottom of your cv and reference it in the cover letter.
 
That's really not to my taste personally, but it does look well designed/engineered.

How about creating a little "product flyer" for it? like a glossy tri-fold pamphlet with a bit of blurb and the pictures? And include that with the letter?
 
Just paint it white :)

It's a tricky one. My gut tells me to have the pictures as a separate attachment as it might look odd in a cover letter. Then again, you don't want them skimming the cover letter and never looking at the pics.
 
Remove all the interesting design stuff, make it plain and efficient looking, remove some of the functionality, and tell them that it will retail for $3,299 and command a 1700% margin.

Thank me later.
 
[FnG]magnolia;28370984 said:
Remove all the interesting design stuff, make it plain and efficient looking, remove some of the functionality, and tell them that it will retail for $3,299 and command a 1700% margin.

Thank me later.
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You are Tim Cook and I claim my £5 iTunes voucher.
 
Whilst impressive, I don't know anyone who had cooling issues with a ps3?! Did I miss something?

Then again, I can't see the point in the apple watch!

Good luck dude! I would add pictures.
 
Now make it fit in a normal sized case and you've achieved something within the area of Design Engineering, otherwise this comes under Marketing.
 
The case looks great, I would however suggest that you re-do the internals a bit so that it's extra clean and tidy, everything neatly routed and arranged.

The internals of Apple products are very meticulously designed, and I think that would earn you points if you can show them your design with that incorporated.

Also, don't show them the one with you inserting MW3 in to it, that's bound to lose you points!

balky12 said:
Whilst impressive, I don't know anyone who had cooling issues with a ps3?! Did I miss something?

Then again, I can't see the point in the apple watch!

Good luck dude! I would add pictures.
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The original bigger model had cooling issues, and a lot of them were susceptible to the "Yellow Light of Death" due to the heat causing the PCB to expand and contract, thus breaking the BGA of solder that kept the graphics chip on the PCB.

Pretty much similar to the issues with all those nVidia chips in laptops. The issue was made worse by the fact that nVidia wouldn't allow Sony to incorporate the nVidia GPU on to the same package as the CPU, they said their GPU HAD to be on its own package with its own heatspreader that had the nVidia logo on it.

I think this is actually the real reason why nVidia didn't get a look-in when it came to providing GPUs for the PS4 and Xbox One, despite their claims that they weren't interested. Companies have a hard time working with nVidia, because they don't like giving their clients what they want, nVidia likes to tell them what they want and what they're getting.
 
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