Sample cover letter for Internship position at ON Semiconductor

Dear ON Semiconductor,

I am a Senior Computer Engineering student at Brigham Young University-Idaho and I’m interested in applying for the position of FIP Verification Engineer and IO Design Spring/Summer Internships. I attended the recent Career Fair held at Brigham Young University-Idaho on October 8th. I learned about ON Semiconductor and the work the company does there and I became extremely interested in doing an internship with this company. I had an interview with John soon after the Career Fair was over and he strongly advised me to go to the company’s website and apply for the internships as soon as I could. During the interview I said I could be available during the upcoming winter months, but after discussing it with my wife, I would prefer to do an internship this upcoming Spring or Summer (Mid-April through August).

An important quality for any professional is doing what you love. My passion for computers came from helping my Dad build a desktop computer for our family when I was about nine years old. My Dad ordered all the parts and I watched as he put everything in the case and connected them together, ribbon cables everywhere. This is where I got my first real taste of how computers work and what parts they’re composed of. Since then I have thirsted to learn more in depth about them and how they work, which is why I chose to study Computer Engineering. To me, learning about cutting edge, innovative technologies is exhilarating. I love it because new technology is what changes the world and I want to be a part of it.

I have had opportunities to work as part of a team for a few of my class projects. One of those teams was designing the components for a four-bit processor using Xilinx ISE Design Suite and testing it on an FPGA board. For another class project I worked with a partner to build line buffer, pre-Amp, mixer, equalizer, and power amp to power a stereo. To create these different parts we used quad op amp ICs that were made from JFETs and resistors that we chose to give the correct gain to the output. We designed the three boards that contained the different stages in Altium Designer, the Lab Assistant milled out our PCB boards on the milling machine, and then we hand-soldered the surface mounted parts on the PCB board. Both of these projects really taught me a lot about working on a team, how processors work, and a few uses of op-amps.

Interning at ON Semiconductor would be such a wonderful opportunity for me to gain valuable experience in the computer engineering field because ON Semiconductor is a very well-known and experienced company. I look forward to getting the best training from a company that is leading in innovation of energy efficient solutions for its wide range of projects. I would be an excellent candidate because I have had extensive experience with working on a team in most of my classes, I am skilled in C++ and in learning new programming languages, and I’m very self-motivated because this is what I love doing. It would be such an honor to intern with ON Semiconductor and I very much look forward to this experience.

Sincerely,