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Electrical Engineering - Hardware
Joshua
Major: Electrical Engineering
My job was to aide in designing circuits to be used for production or to support production.
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Sierra Club Internship
Jakob
Major: Political Science
While in the internship program with the Sierra Club I worked for a state representative running for reelection. During my time with her campaign I participated in phone banking events, canvassed doors with campaign literature, placed small and large yard signs in residents yards and answered any potential questions voters may have.
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Internship
Cameron
Major: Political Science
Some of the tasks I performed in my internship were: attending briefings on circumstances including current events, bills and resolutions the Congresswoman will vote on, writing suspensions on issues the Congresswoman will vote 'Yay' to, reading constituent's concerns, and emailing Legislative Directors (LD) from other offices around the Hill regarding resolutions and acts the Congresswoman wants to cosponsor. While I enjoyed every part of my job, my favorite and most exciting skill I was able to develop here is drafting legislation.
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Summer 2016 Washington Internship
Philip
Major: International Relations
I made two major contributions: one was writing a number of articles that were published on COHA's website. The other was the administrative compilation of potential subscriber data data of libraries and universities all across the country, as well as internationally for COHA to reach out to for distribution of our published paper: the Washington Report on the Hemisphere. I collected and compiled information on over 230 outside organizations for this project. Besides this, I also edited other interns' papers, both personally and as part of larger editing groups.
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District Congressional Intern
Jill
Major: Political Science
I worked on general administrative tasks, I read letters from constituents and assigned them to the correct staff member, I wrote letters to constituents, I helped with the district news update that was sent to all of Congressman Huizenga's staff, I helped with several cases for constituents dealing primary with Veteran Affairs and Immigration.
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2016 Masters Outdoor Championships
Torben
Major: Sport Management
Designed and ordered medals
Advertised for volunteers
Catered all the food for volunteers and officials
Updated all the website information
Designed and certified the race walk course
Created national championship patches
Designed and ordered volunteer t-shirts
Designed the athlete banquet tickets
Emailed all banquet attendees
Planned and ordered tents and porta-johns for event
Delegated responsibilities to my assistant
Delegated responsibilities to extra volunteers
Assisted in event operations during meet
Helped set up and tear down event
Assisted in designing the advertisement signage
Helped USATF with any necessary tasks
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Inner City Youth Baseball/Softball- YMCA Program
Angela
Major: Sport Management
As I mentioned above, the YMCA focuses on strengthening the West Michigan Community by giving back and supporting our neighbors. A way I was able to do that this summer, was by helping the Y coordinate and put on their Inner City Youth Baseball/Softball program. This program was absolutely free with the help of our sponsors, Meijer, Fifth-Third Bank, and the Whitecaps organization. The program allowed kids, grades 1st-8th to participate in a free summer baseball/softball league where they were provided with uniforms, nightly dinners, coaches, and a summer full of memories.
Read More About Inner City Youth Baseball/Softball- YMCA Program
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Altus Industries Co-op
Michael
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Because it was my first semester at Altus, I had to start from the very beginning and learn everything about the company. So the first month or so I mainly worked on the floor and was building the products. This helped me learn the parts, the assembling of the products, and just the products themselves. After this month, I began to transition into more responsible roles. I helped with product development, quality checks, and quickening the assembly process. For product development, I assisted with accessories that went on the carts and even brand new styles of the carts. The quality checks occurred when parts were showing up frequently with problems. I would go through almost all of that part and decide whether it was just a coincidence or if this was a problem that needed to be quickly addressed. With finding faster ways of assembling the carts, I was able to change some parts by contacting suppliers so that it allowed for a faster assembly
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Casting Ductile Iron
Adan
Major: Mechanical Engineering
When I arrived, my first task was to spend a few weeks shadowing each department. My next assignment was to attempt to create CAD for an existing mold pattern. This helped me increase my level of skill in the software, CREO PARAMETRIC.
After I was comfortable enough, I was given projects that usually had me working on changing existing designs. This ultimately lead to me being given the task to completely redesign a mold pattern for production.
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Yanfeng Automotive Interiors
Morgan
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
This summer my main project was in supporting the advanced manufacturing team while they prepare for the transfer of three manufacturing lines from Michigan/Ohio to a new facility in Illinois. I spent time at the Ohio manufacturing plant to understand and document the line as it is today, helped to gather data for the design of the new line layouts, and several other smaller projects.
In addition, I completed a side project on plastic welding, where I gathered knowledge from online and internal resources and compiled guidelines for four common welding processes.
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Trans-Matic Engineering Co-op
Cade
Major: Mechanical Engineering
This first co-op semester was a learning experience from the ground up. Much of the first few weeks was dedicated to learning software and company standards. The rest of the semester consisted mostly of updating tooling prints of growing complexity, with a few more design-oriented projects. I also had the opportunity to do a study on the production floor.
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Dematic Co-Op I
Zach
Major: Mechanical Engineering
While working at Dematic I have completed a wide variety of tasks. I work on the Amazon Mechanical Engineering team which designs conveying and sortation systems for Amazon Fulfillment Centers. My day-to-day functions include making/updating drawings in AutoCAD, ordering miscellaneous parts to the job site, verifying that all necessary conveyor assemblies were ordered, assisting the manufacturing department, and update the standards document Engineers use when they have questions pertaining to products or system design.
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Attwood Co-op
Jacob
Major: Mechanical Engineering
A lot of my co-op involved working with the CAD software NX. Some projects were very straightforward and involved importing parts into CAD and making drawings for them. Other projects required more skill and involved machine design. I had begun creating a riveting machine for manufacturing that would be used to put together pedestal systems. Currently, I am working on a project that involves other interns at Attwood, we are working together further analyze a fuel demand valve. The testing involved design of experiments. In this project, no CAD was required.
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Summer Co-op 1
Adam
Major: Electrical Engineering
Over the semester, I was given multiple tasks. One job I was tasked with was setting up a camera attempting to detect a bead of silicone. On the same job I was also tasked with designing seven different HMI (Human Machine Interface) screens. This task of setting up the HMI screens introduced me to PLC, as well as several pneumatic and electrical drawings.
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Trans-Matic Experience
Sam
Major: Mechanical Engineering
During my first rotation at Trans-Matic I handled a lot of updating and redesigning existing tooling in the presses. Each production job has tooling originally designed that fits into the presses to produce specific features on the part. These designs go through constant changes as the tools wear down or industry standards change. This was all done using the latest version of Creo (3D CAD software). Besides doing redesigns I also had many other opportunities such as designing gages to test that parts in production met customer specifications and chances to get more up close looks at the assembly machines.
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SAF-HOLLAND Co-Op Experience
Joseph
Major: Mechanical Engineering
During my time with SAF-Holland I have completed many tasks ranging from tearing down a truck suspension to designing new suspension components on the computer. Some of these tasks are: data mining, detailing drawings, design, FEA, setting up life-cycle tests, tearing down suspensions, and managing part inventory.
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EGR 290 Coop Experience Summary
Sam
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
I was a mechanical engineering intern which meant I was heavily involved in the design aspect of the company. I designed a number of modifications for existing machines as well as parts in machines still undergoing preliminary design. I was also responsible for ordering parts for machines, updating designs, and updating drawings. I also had the opportunity to get involved with a local robotics team and designed a workstation for them.
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Internship
Kyle
Major: Mechanical Engineering
While I was interning as a Mechanical Engineer at JR Automation my assigned tasks were to detail and design checking drawing packages. Detailing involves going through an assembly and creating drawing sheets for each part that is located in that assembly. Design checking drawing sheets is where an engineer goes through a drawing sheet that has been detailed by another mechanical engineer and checks the detailing as well as the overall design of the assembly. I was lucky enough to be able to do some designing in my first coop at JR Automation. I was able to design different aspects to the machines that were being built in my business unit and was the thing I liked the most about my first coop.
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Crimson Club Donor Relations
Patrick
Major: Sport Management
I was in charge of gathering data, pictures, and writing excerpts for the Annual Giving Guide for the recent school year. The annual report outlines accomplishments of the athletes, teams, and what the money that was donated went to. The 20 page guide was recently completed by a graphic designer and will be released online and in print. I have also helped with creating letters to donors and compiling donor gifts.
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Eye-opening
Emily
Major: Natural Resources Management
Talked with voters about environmental issues and ones that my candidate was passionate about, started recycling programs in offices, met and talked with environmental professionals around the state including but not limited to Sierra Club board members, solar energy businessmen, etc.
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JR Automation Mech. Engineering Co-op 1
Joshua
Major: Mechanical Engineering
During my first semester with JR I worked on several different projects with the different engineers there. Some examples of projects I did design work on are a dial table, weld cells, and single operator work cells. I also took part in day to day work with my coworkers to insure that our work was accurate and high quality at all steps in the design and release process.
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Engineering Co-op at Emerald
Trent
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
During my first co-op semester I was able to design fixtures for multiple projects and was responsible for taking my ideas all the way through the design and manufacturing process. I became trained on the laser etching machines as well as the digital printer and used the machines frequently for different trials and engineering studies. I was able to obtain some experience with Emerald's quoting process as well to help supply accurate quotes to all of our customers. I was also able to be included in multiple DOE (Design of Experiments) studies to determine the root cause of some issues that arose and move forward with solving them.
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Fogg Co-op Experience
Zachary
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Fogg kept me very busy right from day one whether they were teaching me about Fogg's procedures and standards getting me started with some work. I did a lot of revisions in the beginning of my co-op. These revisions were a good way for me to wade my way into the water. I learned a lot of things on SolidWorks through these revisions as well as being exposed to all the different ways of accomplishing the same goal. These revisions also helped me to learn names and faces of the engineers at Fogg. If I got a print that asked for a change of the part, I would go seek out the engineer that drew the part and had to check with them to make sure that the requested change wouldn't affect the part in a negative way. I also created a couple fixtures to hold a part in a specific orientation to allow for welders to create a consistent part. During my time at Fogg I have also received miscellaneous tasks here and there when they pop up. One of these tasks was to work with one of the electrical engineers to design a cable tray bracket. While not a large or complicated design I had a sense of accomplishment after creating the bracket.
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Disher co-op Experience
Jordan
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
As a co-op we all get a chance to show what we know and make the most of our experience. I started on smaller internal projects that improved Disher as a company. As time progressed I reached out and worked on developing a mechanized product for a company. Projects has a construction, solidWorks/design and electronics emphasis for me.
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Trane - EGR 290
Mike
Major: Electrical Engineering
I created custom graphics for the user's interfaces. The graphics are used by the customers to monitor their HVAC systems. I was also responsible for checking in the parts that had been ordered for different projects.
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