Intralox LLC offered me a real engineering work environment. I was able to learn standard engineering practices and grow as a resourceful employee. Working with other interns of different departments one a single project showed me how a broad availability in expertise can be effective.
As part of the Hydrolox waterscreen team, I was tasked on contributing to their engineering process improvement. This meant developing ways or methods that will fast-track certain aspects of their design and manufacturing to help them improve workflow. My team was extremely helpful in giving me direction with my projects, while also staying hands-off, part of Intralox's idea of self-manageability. Intralox also gave every summer intern the challenge of developing different designs for a prospective new design Intralox has plans for. My team focused on the joints themselves, starting with basic engineering principles to determine our design. In the end, we provided a very thorough and detailed design that we hope the Intralox engineers will utilize for their new design.
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At Intralox, I was given the opportunity to learn good engineering practices. Working closely with my engineering team, they showed me a standard process to approaching my assigned projects. They were mostly hands-off, allowing me to learn on my own which helped me find my work flow and as a result made me more efficient now that I had a solid bearing of the work at hand. Because management took a hands-off approach ,I pushed for mid-summer and final reviews to really learn what my strengths and weaknesses are during my internship. Taking that feedback, I have since then began implementing what I've learned into my daily work.
My experience at Intralox exercised my abilities as an engineer. The projects assigned to taught me practical skills for any engineer. The intern project design was focused on time-efficiency and ease of assembly. I took into consideration thermal expansion, load bearing surfaces, adjustability, and maintenance. As an engineer, it's my responsibility to ensure that the product works well in the field with human interaction. In my End of Summer presentation, I talk about the things I've worked on and what I've learned. You can also see a couple of examples of my work below.
Sheet Metal Bend TableA manufacturer in the United Kingdom had long turn around times for fabricating our projects overseas. After a few meetings with the team and the manufacturing lead in the U.K., I was tasked to develop a bend table that would generate K-factor values to use for certain bend radii and thickness of sheet metal. This would speed the process of pre-fabrication design work for the manufacturer and improve project timelines on our end.
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Belt Notch ConfiguratorIntralox belts are modular, using a brick lay pattern for the belt modules. Sometimes, a customer may ask for a certain belt width that could not be made due to the belt modules available. I developed a configurator that would calculate if a belt pattern was possible for a given belt width and module width.
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Intralox LLC