SMI Aerospace

240 hours Paid

Aero Auto Specialty

Manufactures complicated or high tolerance jet parts for the military, civilian, and commercial industries.

International business

AUTO

Manufactures parts for automotive companies like GM and Ford

SPECIALTY

the recreational sports, marine, automotive and energy industries

Manufactures parts for recreational sports, marine, race car and energy industries

FUNCTION OF AN INTERN

To learn while doing the jobs nobody else wants to do.

Shipping department

Shipping department

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTdaCB6PSQ

What I did: Pack/unpack parts Make foams Laser etching parts Pictured a lot of parts Scanned labels Make labels for new parts

Foaming station Laser etching machine

Picturing station

INVENTORY KITTING

Putting together orders or fixing them

Only lasted 2 days Look at blue prints of several parts and

determine their length, width, and height and then order a container corresponding to that part’s size.

Deburred parts…lots of them. Started out by deburring 555 steel blocks.

Which I made a castle out of .

I took a workload off of another employee so that he/she can do more important tasks. Thus helping the company increase throughput.

Mr. Greenman/ supervisor (Manager of engineering)

Vicky/ person in charge of my day to day duties

Cory

Steve Rick

Specialty: SMI Aerospace specializes in aerospace and doesn’t just manufacture general “stuff”. It sticks with what it’s good at and excels at it at. Thus increasing their thoughput.

ENGINEERING GRAPHICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Shop safety

MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLY, AND FABRICATION Measuring dimensions on

blue prints Use of excel

OVERVIEW OF ENGINEERING

I learned a lot about types of engineering careers

Relationship between engineers and technical personal

ENGINEERING ETHICS

Ethics I followed during my internship

Working diligently Staying positive Integrity Proper Communication Adaptability

Math Adding Subtracting English Good speaking skills An understand of manufacturing terms

Great internship, I learned a lot!