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Gaining valuable experience
July 19, 2007
With some internships, students main focuses are on answering phones, making copies or doing spreadsheets, but for Steven Adams his co-op experiences have been much more.
At his first engineering job with AMETEK Aerospace & Defense in Wilmington, MA last year, Adams got the chance to work on engineering designs. “I did tooling design using Solidworks to create fixtures for laser welding and laser marking among many other types,” said Adams.
As a manufacturing engineering co-op at AMETEK Adams had the opportunity to work on developing a product from start to finish. “One specific project I worked on was for a calibration fixture,” said Adams. “I worked on this project over the course of four months, beginning with a concept design and crude prototype. For the prototype I wound coils that generated an electromagnetic field in order to calibrate a fuel probe. The prototype evolved over many revisions to a quality apparatus that was manufactured for a multi-probe testing station.”
Adams was able to gain the valuable experience close to home, as he is from Lexington, MA, though he was born in Zurich, Switzerland and emigrated to the US in 1994.
Today, he is a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major at Northeastern University, and is currently on his second co-op at Bose in Framingham, MA. He has been there nearly a month, as a mechanical engineering co-op, where he works on assembly line equipment design.
With one co-op under his belt, Adams feels he has already benefited from the experience the program provides. “I feel like I have learned a lot more doing hands-on work and being in a professional atmosphere on co-op than I ever have or will from textbooks or going to class,” said Adams. “My aforementioned positions have been very rewarding and invaluable as far as my work experience is concerned.”
The rewarding experience Adams has had with the program has not only reaffirmed his career choice, but has also made him confident that his education will prepare him well for his future. “Those four letters and a hyphen explain why I love being a student at Northeastern University,” said Adams.
Posted by Jessica MacNeil on July 19, 2007 | Comments (0)
