During my summer internship with Peerless of America II, inc. I had many opportunities to work with the maintenance, quality, and production crews to troubleshoot and solve issues that some of them dealt with for years. My largest project was building, wiring, and programming a CNC tubing bender almost completely from spare parts. I worked closely with the machinist and the production workers to figure out the best improvements I could realistically make to allow for more accurate bends that also saved time and mone. I also worked with the quality manager to create documentation that followed ISO 9001 standards for operating procedures and safety instructions for a new refrigeration coil coating system.
These and other projects are included in the portfolio overview for the internship. I created this document for the president of the company to explain to the board the importance of interns as well as serving as my internship summary presentation, as I ended up working until the last hour on finishing up other documentation and troubleshooting manufacturing machines. It is important, in any career, to summarize projects in a non-technical style as I mostly used in this document, but engineers need to have this skill as we have trouble, more than most, in explaining our work without being too technical and using too much jargon.