Trane, Creative Solutions Team, Electrical
Dakoda
Experience Information
Employer: Trane Creative Solutions
Job Title: Project Engineering Intern
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Received Credit: Yes
Paid: Yes
Abroad: No
Description of the Organization
Trane Creative Solutions (TCS) is a brand of Trane Technologies that focus on modifying the equipment produced in other factories to meet customers specialized requests. It focus on tailoring each unit to meet the customers specification usually with the goal of increased efficiency through higher quality parts like variable speed drives or waterside economizers. They have a very standard business structure with and productions floor, materials team, sales department as well as an engineering department. They have split the engineering department into mechanical and electrical and have project lead over each team. Custom requests are taken through sales clarified through project managers then released to engineering. They obtain proper equipment then push it to production before shipping modified HVAC units to the customer.
Description of the Tasks/Projects Completed
I mainly focused on D-team engineering which are chillers that come from pueblo like the RTAC, CGAM, and ACRB. I focused on pump packages, dual point power and waterside economizers. Additionally, each electrical drawing needs to be audited which falls pretty heavily on the intern. Finding mistakes in others works helped to point out potential mistakes of my own. Each job can be broken down into 4 parts. Purchasing, drawings paperwork and programing. Purchasing includes adding all items on the Bill of Materials (BOM) to a requisition program JobBOSS and sending it to the materials team. Drawings includes updating and adjusting previous jobs to meet the new design requirements or starting an new drawing from scratch if nothing similar is available. Paperwork includes special shipping labels, installation and operation manuals and test logs built for the customized changes to the unit. Programming includes using Tracer TU to adjust previous programs to meet current requirements.
Skills/Knowledge Gained Through The Experience
JobBOSS AutoCAD Teams Tracer TU Electrical sizing Electrical Diagrams/ Schematics Programming Team building Excel
Favorite Part of the Experience
The people that I worked with.
How the Experience Influenced Future Career Goals
By hopefully providing me with enough experience and exposure that an engineering position will be offered to me upon graduation.
Internship Format
In Person