Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

2nd Co-op Semester

Ryan
Major: Electrical Engineering This co-op term I modified a refrigerator with sensors to monitor the state of the light, the door, and monitor power consumption. These signals were then sent to a M2M router which made the data available online. I also worked a lot with some motion sensors, doing testing and data analysis. The rest of my time was spent doing a lot of ground truthing for sensors for several different applications.

Twisthink Co-op Experience

Ryan
Major: Electrical Engineering Some tasks I completed where top level designs of a project and bench marking competitor pricing. I worked on a project that involved putting circuits together in the lab. Another big job I had was going through all the pin connections on a schematic for a circuit we had designed.

Final Co-Op Endeavour

Carl
Major: Electrical Engineering This semester has been a learning experience. I have been given tasks ranging from PLC programming, to electrical design. I worked on several assembly lines this semester for several customers. During these I was in charge of the electrical design, HMI design, PLC programming, electrical component ordering, and customer relations. I spent a great deal of time programming the logic and HMI of these door assembly stations. Throughout this time I also had to debug several aspect of the machine ranging from electrical issues to mechanical design concerns. I was able to do some vision testing for the machines as well. I worked a great deal with the customer during the build process of their machinery.

DornerWorks EE Internship Rotation 2

Josh
Major: Electrical Engineering C/C++ code analysis/inspection, bringing it into compliance with MISRA rules APIs written for SW sample projects Linux kernel compilation, attempting to bring a real-time kernel into a hypervisor guest domain (Xen) Python code written for continuous integration server TeamCity

Autocam Coop

Timothy
Major: Electrical Engineering I mainly ran machines during the first half of my experience here. This was important to my experience because I was able to learn the product line from the inside out. From there, I was assigned to an engineer to work on numerous area improvement projects. There is simply too much to list, but needless to say, I learned a lot about the processes, the procedures adopted by Autocam, and turn-machining.

Co-op at Visteon

Chris
Major: Electrical Engineering Power supply efficiency testing on Telematics Control Unit (TCU) Back-up battery temperature testing under loading for TCU DTMF signal processing using FFT analysis Prototyping with constant current for LED indicators for TCU integration Prototyping audio amplifiers for TCU integration Prototyping SEPIC/Boost DC-DC converters for TCU integration

Automation Technology at JR

Kevin
Major: Electrical Engineering Tasks for projects completed were schematic diagrams of pneumatic and electrical systems for both Nissan and Ford in which processes included application of urethane and other hazardous material. Other tasks included programming vision software assisted cameras to distinguish vehicle door handle parts in a stage of a complex process. Also, other tasks included staging and some programming of human machine interface software for operator and machine communication. These large projects are ongoing and long term commitments are essential to the success of these projects.

A Summer w/o Wires

Chris
Major: Electrical Engineering This summer I did the majority of my work with receiver testing. This involved testing numerous receivers that had a wide variety of issues. Early on, the weak link within the system was the Lightning connector, then after some full charging tests, a thermal issue was discovered, so I got to do the testing & solution for that issue as well. Throughout the semester I was also the sole Engineer designing a detection circuit in a powerful Magnetic Field.

Traveling The World as an Engineer

Christian
Major: Electrical Engineering I worked as a controls engineer. which means my primary objective was to design, test and commission massive pieces of industrial machinery and robotics

Robotics at its Best - CO-OP I

Ryan
Major: Electrical Engineering My first month at JR involved editing electrical and pneumatic prints, minor PLC programming, and HMI programming for a large assembly line. After the assembly line was finished, I was assigned my own project. I started off by spec'ing the right components for the machine, and performing power and pneumatic calculations. The next step was electrical, pneumatic, and control panel design. After the design and bill of materials were approved by the customer, I started the PLC and HMI programming. The last phase I was involved in before the semester ended was powering on the machine and debugging my code.

JR Automation Co-Op

Wiliam
Major: Electrical Engineering I was a part of a large team of controls engineers. This specific project is expected to last over a year and will be the largest yet though JR. My part in the project was to assist in the electrical/ pneumatic drawings and other data that the customer required. On a day to day basis, I checked drawings, created drawings, designed enclosure layouts, performed heating, pneumatic, and electrical calculations for the controls engineers that I work with.

Mill Rebuild

Nathan
Major: Electrical Engineering Provided instructions on how to install welding gas regulators on several welding cells. Also provided support on the major overhaul of one of their many rolling mill lines.