Need Help Building Work Portfolio

[darkchild]

I would like to build a work porfolio for applying for freelance jobs, but I don't really have much relevant work experience that I can draw from. I have a Physics background and I'm looking for projects that are related to engineering, programming, most of the sciences, and technical writing. I'd like to know if anyone can suggest websites or textbooks or something that will give me ideas for projects I can work on that will allow me to showcase intermediate to advanced skills, especially with tools such as MATLAB, AUTOCad, Ansys, UML, etc. For the technical writing portfolio, I'm going to try out software and write reviews and user's manuals, so suggestions for finding templates for that sort of thing, or even for other types of technical writing, would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[digitman]

So you're basically asking for hobby engineering projects? There are a lot of such ideas around. Doing a google search for 'hobby engineering projects' would reveal many, you can also buy any book on 'robotics', they usually have many projects with instructions on building them.