Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Rubber Engineering

Andrew
Major: Mechanical Engineering Product design team. Creation of studies related to fatigue, parts testing, prototype assembly

Anthony
Major: Mechanical Engineering As an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer my responsibilities included, but were not limited to, process optimization, technology integration, design and development, quality assurance, project management, troubleshooting, collaboration and communication, continuous improvement, compliance and safety, training and documentation.

3rd Co-Op Rotation

Jake
Major: Electrical Engineering My daily tasks for this rotation varied since there are around 200 test stations that need to be sustained at the GR site. Tasks daily could range from software updates/debugging, to hardware/circuit trouble shooting and debugging. The main tasks I completed were ordering parts for two new stations worth over $100,000 and creating new electrical drawing packages for the new test station. Other than those tasks I made a few larger software updates to improve testing efficiency by adding new libraries.

Third Co-op Rotation at Axis Automation

Zachary
Major: Mechanical Engineering A large amount of my time this semester was spent working on tooling station and robot end effector designs. This includes but is not limited to initial designs, internal and customer design review meetings that require design changes, compiling documentation for the components to be machined and built, and overall job documentation for the customer.

Third Co-op Rotation

Cara
Major: Biomedical Engineering I worked on additive manufacturing projects and operational and performance qualifications.

Viking Products Engineering Co-Op

Logan
Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering As an engineering Co-Op, I had the opportunity to work with all the engineers at Viking on various different projects. My responsibilities spanned the entire production process. One day I would be creating prints for new parts, and reaching out to our suppliers, and the next I would be testing the parts before they went out to our customers. Additionally, I provided support in Viking's assembly areas getting to set up and test the latest equipment and processes.

Last CO-OP Rotation

Ali
Major: Mechanical Engineering As far as projects Iýve worked on, one project was a cabinet sent by a customer where I had to go over the entire drawing package, create flat patterns, build BOMs & routers, add weld symbols if needed, apply GD&T where applicable, and process WOs. That was a project that was assigned to me, and I was responsible of getting everything completed before we can send it out to the floor. Iýve also worked in the assembly department for a couple weeks where I helped assemble some of the components of that cabinets such as the door, door jams, locks&etc.

3rd Co/op at NN Inc.

Connor
Major: Mechanical Engineering This semester I had more independence and had control of my own product line. I provided assistance to each process on the line on mostly day-to-day operations. I also had the opportunity to learn a new machining operation which included learning the process flow, maintaining the machines, and increasing production.

Student-Athlete Welfare & Development and Athletic Compliance Student Assistant

Scott
Major: Sport Management During this internship I helped manage the compliance of 650 student-athletes, made sure all Name, Image, and Likeness deals were compliant with NCAA, GVSU, and State of Michigan bylaws, keep the websites up to date, and helped students find resources to land a job or internship.

Viking Products Incorporated Third CO-OP Rotation

Darwin
Major: Mechanical Engineering In the third rotation, I was able to have more responsibility in creating and modifying Annual Validations or PPAPs for different parts. Through this, I was able to have thorough understanding of the different levels used to specify what should and should not be in these revalidations. I was also able to learn more about the Instron machine through testing parts for proof loads and tensile strength respectively. Additionally, I was able to sharpen my skills in creating RIR work instruction for different parts as well as maintaining quality of the gauges registered in the company.

Intern At Howie's Hockey Tape

Tyler
Major: Sport Management Cold calling, finding and adding new prospects, emailing/texting with prospects, trying to make sales to new prospects, continuing to check up on new customers, managing over 1000 prospects.

Student Assistant

Matthew
Major: Sport Management Help run scout team for the defense and any task that our Director of football Operations needs.

Ride-alongs at MSP

Jordan
Major: Criminal Justice This internship was more of an observational one. I didn't really complete any tasks or projects but I witnessed them being completed. During the ride-alongs, we made traffic stops, helped with crashes, tagged abandoned vehicles, made arrests, transported prisoners to jails, and attended to wellbeing checks, suicide calls, and domestic violence/disturbance calls.

Data Analyst

Catherine
Major: Computer Science My primary responsibilities include curating research papers, developing a user-friendly AIchatbot, enhancing its functionality with NLP techniques, integrating it into our data analysis workflow, leading the development of an in-house data analysis system, collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting user training sessions, and continually improving both the chatbot and data analysis system based on user feedback.

Cascade Hills Country Club Outdoor Operations

Drew
Major: Sport Management I was involved with everything related to Golf. Managing the range, operating various golf course equipment, leading efforts in the bag room and cart garage, organizing weekly men's and women's leagues, overseeing invitationals and tournaments, and communicating with every level of the organization were some of the primary tasks I was assigned with throughout the summer.

ETS Performance Summer Internship

Matthew
Major: Communications As a coach and an intern, it was my responsibility to train the athletes on proper strength and speed mechanics, in order to enhance their athleticism. Additionally, it was vital for me to utilize my communication skills in order to build relationships with all of the athletes, in order for them to trust my coaching and feel comfortable around me. It was important for me to motivate the athletes day in and day out to push themselves to their limits, especially with the correct, mindful training. It was also essential that I contributed to the high energy, motivating and inspiring environment that ETS is supposed to provide in order for the athletes to reach their highest potential.

Grand Rapids Gold

William
Major: Sport Management Promote and represent the Grand Rapids Gold, to the Grand Rapids community through community events. Provide giveaways, promotional and ticket information to community members. Execute set-up and tear down of events. Collect and input data into Salesforce and make calls to both individual and groups for potential ticket sales. Coordinate calendar for events.

Digital Marketing Internship

Zoë
Major: Multimedia Journalism At this internship, I was in charge of running the social media for the company while I was there. I also helped with Graphic Design elements, technological skills, and compiling analytics.

American Dunes Golf Club

Tyler
Major: Sport Management At American Dunes, I have had the privilege to assist in over a dozen golf events. I have also been tasked with assisting in managing the golf shop, online sales, and reservations.

Small Town, Big Job

Matthew
Major: Sport Management I supervised and helped run the soccer season in the month of May and Early June. Late June was a lot of preparation and remote work for the summer camps. Now in July, I am on my 3rd week of running the youth summer program as a director. I am still in the process of grant writing to get some more baseball equipment. This was an excellent internship from an administrative perspective because it required hard work on and off the field. A true management experience.

Midland Country Club-Golf Operations

Luke
Major: Sport Management Some of my tasks I do on a daily basis include: Manage and organize tee sheet, help coordinate outside staff, coordinate/assist with all of our leagues, coordinate/assist with all of our club events(ex. member/guest, member/member), assist/coordinate all all of our clinics, assist/coordinate with our Jr. League and Jr. Camps, coordinate/assist with the Great Lakes Bay Invitational Pro-Am.

YMCA David D. Hunting Internship

Tim
Major: Sport Management As an intern at the YMCA David D. Hunting location I worked a variety of tasks for two seperate areas. The first was for the Ted Rasberry youth baseball league and the second one was daily operations at the wellness desk. The tasks I completed for the youth league include: - Organizing team and coaching apparel - Helped organize team practices and games - Empired and coached As for the wellness desk part I learned: - Scheduled appointments for personal training, racquetball, and basketball trainings - Customer service - How to properly and safely use all the weight/ sports training equipment

Rec Sports Intern

Dylan
Major: Sport Management I am responsible for facility clean up, management, and maintenance to keep the Volleyball and softball ball leagues operating at a high standard. My main priorities are keeping the playing surfaces up to standard and fixing/cleaning any problems around the facility. I also act as a supervisor and scorekeeper for a Volleyball league.

Lean Leadership

Matthew
Major: Integrative Studies I spent the majority of my time working in each department with the department heads. Learning from numerous people and their leadership styles. I created a procedural booklet for each department and put together a lean binder for classes the company can use moving forward. The overall goal was to put information on paper so that the company can use this information to improve productivity and workflow through the shop.

Ticket Sales Intern

Brett
Major: Sport Management I have participated in group sales, individual sales, coordinating with clients, operations, special events, and much more.