Retrospective Internship Reports

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Intern Experience at MEL, Inc.: An Internship Report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Chen, Chu-Chen, 1937-
...The author spent a one-year internship at MEL, Inc., a civil and mechanical engineering consulting firm located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. By special arrangement with the president of the firm, the author was able to participate in roles at various levels within the firm. These activities included engineering design, supervision and management, project cost control, and interface with top level management. During this period, the author has been engaged in the following assignments: 1. Serving as senior project engineer on the Louisiana Training Institution air conditioning and heating project, 2. Serving at the review and advisory level for three projects, 3. Studying and implementing computer aided design and drafting system for MEL, Inc. 4. Developing a projet cost control system that is interactive with the firm's payroll program. 5. Upgrading the firm's computer capacity. 6. Performing special assignments from the President, Executive Vice-President, Manager of Operation and Manager of Business and Fiscal Affairs at MEL, Inc. These activities involved the application of scientific principles to the design, installation, and improvement of integrated systems of people, materials, and equipment to provide the most effective operating and work procedures. As a result of this involvement in a wide range of assignments, the author now has a broadly based experience in a consulting engineering firm as both engineer and manager. The author also found that well-developed, practical courses in communication, business, engineering, law, and management from the Doctor of Engineering program at Texas A&M University contributed greatly to this successful internship with MEL, Incorporated.
Intern experience with William F. Guyton & Associates: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Stevens, William Scott, 1953-
This report is a review of the author's experience as an intern with William F. Guyton & Associates. William F. Guyton & Associates is a consulting groundwater hydrology firm with offices in Austin and Houston, Texas. The intern worked at the main office in Austin for the duration of the internship. The author worked on a variety of projects during the internship. These projects encompassed general groundwater studies, computer simulation, technical analyses of aquifer parameters, and inspection of water well construction and testing. General groundwater studies involved the collection of water well construction and chemical analyses data. The author wrote several computer codes to handle basic computations, and the author used several existing finite difference codes to simulate groundwater movement. The technical analyses of pumping test data were analyzed by the author to determine aquifer parameters. The field work involved on-site inspection of water well construction and involved quality control of the pumping test after construction. The author interacted with various agencies of the state and federal government. This interaction was necessary to many of the projects. The collection of water well data and the use of the finite difference codes gave the author the opportunity to obtain knowledge of the daily operations of these agencies.
Intern experience at URS Company: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Elkarmi, Fawwaz, 1950-
This report describes the author's internship experience with URS Company - Dallas, Texas, from May 1980 to May 1981. The internship company is a consulting engineering firm engaged in providing professional services in the transportation, energy, pollution abatement, water resources, and water and wastewater treatment fields. The author worked as an electrical design engineer during the internship period. The author was also assigned the responsibilities and duties of a project engineer for one of the ongoing projects. The internship objectives were set to provide the author with an internship experience that fulfills the requirements of the Doctor of Engineering Program. These objectives were to become familiar with the organizational characteristics of the company; to make an identifiable contribution in the electrical engineering field; and to gain experience in the non-academic activities of the company, industry standards, ethical practices, and the interactions between the company and the industrial environments. During the internship period the author was involved in designing electrical power distribution, lighting, and control systems for the Dallas East Side Water Treatment Plant and some other projects. The author also developed a computer program to calculate feeder, conduit, and circuit breaker sizes for electrical power circuits. Furthermore, the author gained experience in project management, industry practices, and the internal and external activities of the internship company.
Intern Experience at Phillips Petroleum Company: An Internship Report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Harrington, Craig Douglas, 1956-
Intern experience at Exxon Research and Engineering Company: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Bridges, George A., 1956-
Industrial experience at the Arabian American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Akkad, Ruwaid Ahmed, 1943-
Intern experience at Gulf States Utility Company: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Laub, Thomas William, 1958-
Intern experience at Electricity Directorate of Bahrain: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Aljamea, Najeeb Ahmad
Intern experience at Honeywell, Inc., Large Information Systems Division: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Ismail, Abdel-Wahab Tarek, 1956-
This report describes the author's internship assignment at Honeywell Inc. - Large Information Systems Division from January, 1982 through August, 1982. The purpose of the assignment was to fulfill the internship requirements of the Doctor of Engineering Program. During the internship, the author held the position of VLSI design engineer, where he worked on a predefined project. The project's objective was to evaluate how circuit designs based on an advanced CMOS process, can be applied to hardware products at LISD. The internship allowed the author to successfully apply the MOS circuit design training, which ws developed at Texas A&M, to an industrial project. In addition, involvement in different activities and exposure to the various problems not encountered in academia, made this internship an invaluable experience.
Internship experience at Texas Instruments: the internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Glover, Kerry Cloyce, 1954-
This report presents a survey of the author's internship experience with Texas Instruments from November 1980 to November 1981. The internship was spent in the Advanced Research and Development Division of the Digital Systems Group. The report's intent is to demonstrate that this experience fulfulls the requirements of the Doctor of Engineering internship. The author's internship activities involved the design of a special purpose processor. The internship was divided into two parts during which different versions of the processor were developed. The first design was of a slow processor which was to be simple to build and debug. The second design was a high performance, and therefore complex, processor. Several areas of expertise were gained during the internship including simulation, caching techniques and pipelining. Communication skills were developed because of the interaction with software designers.
Intern experience with the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Truitt, Clifford Lee, 1948-
Intern experience at Brown & Root, Incorporated: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Roengnarong Ratanaprichavej, 1949-
This internship report describes the major activities and accomplishments during the author's one-year intership at Brown & Root in Houston, Texas. The report discusses his engineering assignments, and the necessary functions of a project engineer. The author's assignments covered essentially the technical nature and procedures of his work in several areas of fixed offshore platform design. The author presents and discusses the managerial functions of a project engineer whom he observed working in an offshore engineering company. At the end of this report, the author's accomplishments are summarized, and recommendations concerning the internship are presented.
Intern experience at International Business Machines Corporation, STD/Austin: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Tayar, Emile J. (Emile Joseph), 1954-
This report highlights the author's major activities and accomplishments during his 15 months internship at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation in Austin, Texas. The internship objectives were set so as to provide him with an experience commensurate with the requirements of the Doctor of Engineering Program at Texas A&M University. During his internship, the author was involved with a variety of technical and non-technical projects. His assignments included: 1) The design of an automation strategy for one manufacturing center. 2) The overall supervision and coordination of a major automation project. 3) The development of a project scheduling/tracking system. 4) Co-authoring an "Equipment Specifications Guidelines" form. 5) Other assignments as needed. The nature and scope of the above assignments provided the author with a broadly based experience in the Manufacturing Engineering field. Additionally, the leadership role he played in some of the assignments afforded him with first hand exposure to many aspects of management and leadership skills. All in all, the author believes that this internship proved to be an enriching experience and a valuable addition to his overall education.
Doctor of Engineering internship experience at Ball Aerospace Systems Division, Boulder, Colorado: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Larson, Wiley J.
This monograph describes the author's internship experiences at Ball Aerospace Systems Division, Boulder, Colorado. A system-level spacecraft design procedure is presented. It describes a spacecraft design flow with emphasis on the interactions among subsystem design decisions. The preliminary subsystem trade studies are discussed. Several financial and marketing issues of spacecraft contract proposal development are discussed. The linear design and analysis of the attitude control system for the Air Force Starscan spacecraft is presented. The equations of motion are developed and several attitude control structures and saturation torque limiting schemes are analyzed.
Intern experience at Raba-Kistner Consultants, Inc.: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Johnson, William T.
Intern experience at Rockwell International: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Talley, Thomas James, 1945-
Intern experience at Fluor Engineers, Inc., Houston Division: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Buranawong Sowaprux, 1958-
This report describes the author's activities and experiences gained during the internship served at Fluor Engineers, Inc.--Houston Division, from Summer Term I, 1982 through the Spring Semester 1983. The purpose of the internship was to allow the author to become familiar with project planning and control management in the petrochemical engineering and construction industry. The author held the position of Associate Cost/Scheduling Engineer and worked on two refinery modernization projects during the twelve-month internship. A brief discussion of the author's responsibilities and internship objectives are presented first, followed by Fluor's history, organizational structure and project organization. Process technology of petroleum refining is overviewed along with an examination of how to build a "grass roots" refinery plant. Cost and scheduling engineering aspects are then discussed. Finally, the author's work assignments are described along with development of a computer software for manpower training. The internship was successful in satisfying both the Doctor of Engineering Program and personal objectives. This report is intended to demonstrate that all objectives have been met.
Research on drilling fluids and cement slurries at Standard Oil Production Company: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Flipse, Eugene Charles, 1956-
Intern experience at the Andersons: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Norman, Bill Mack, 1954-
This report is a review of the author's year of experience as an intern with The Andersons in Maumee, Ohio...The author's prime responsibility was in the area of energy management for the company. An energy audit of The Andersons' Maumee complex was performed to determine amounts of energy used and how it was used. A recommendations report for a company-wide energy management program was presented to management. The intent of this recommendations report was to develop a company energy policy, determine required manpower and structure for a proposed energy department within the company, and develop a company-wide energy conservation program. In addition, coordination and management of several energy conservation projects was undertaken. Engineering projects other than energy management were performed. These involved work associated with a survey of waste materials to insure compliance with federal regulations on hazardous wastes; a study of the grain aeration system at the Champaign elevator to evaluate a possible redesign; and engineering analyses of country elevators being evaluated for lease under the company's Linkage Program. These projects required a close working relationship with engineering, environmenetal protection, maintenance, purchasing and accounting departments, as well as with operations personnel. Thus, this internship position at The Andersons provided exposure to a various segments of the company. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering problem areas provided a valuable educational experience.
Doctor of Engineering internship at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station: an internship report
(Texas A&M University, 2013-03-13) Hoff, G. C. (George C.)