engineering student summer work wanted

touge_ae101 · Post by **touge_ae101** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:05 am

hey TS'ers. thought i would chuck a few feelers out and see if anyone knows of any possible opportunities for a student to get some summer work experience

i am currently in my 3rd academic year of engineering at Massey University majoring in Product Development. i come from a farming background so am very practical and hands-on and have done approx 800hrs TIG welding stainless wine tanks over a previous summer. i also work casually for a engineering outfit in town doing mostly MIG welding. feel free to check out my project to see other bits and peices i've done
had quite a bit of experience with CAD drawing using solidworks '07 but i find this experience is quite transferrable to other programs.

as this is my final summer work report i really want to find an opportunity which i can look towards as a career. i would love to work with cars and fabrication but i understand it is a very hard industry to get into. really i want to find a job which challenges both my skills and gives me problems to solve.

wanting to start looking early as the next couple of months dissapears very quickly. our holidays begin end of oct and run through to mid feb. more than willing to do long hours. :lol:

not fussed on location, will move anywhere in the country for the right job.

if you know of an opportunity please feel free to PM me or email me at rhysknauf@hotmail.com

Cheers
Rhys

Boost_4_Life · Post by **Boost_4_Life** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:43 am

hey is Rory still the man to see down there? company i work for has a good final year project for next year as i havent got time to look into it. Its a machine vision project and as i recall that's his baby...

pureadrenalin · Post by **pureadrenalin** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:30 pm

We normally have an engineering student or two each summer, normally mech/mechatronics/electrical/chem tho.

company is itnz.co.nz

Tell me more about "Product Engineering", i'e, what can it offer an oil and gas design company, and what could we offer you.

I'm the design office manager there. We mainly deal with oil and gas design (petrochemical plants, pressure vessels), and the odd other things (super yachts, offshore rig stuff, geothermal, etc)
Design office usually uses Autocad, solidworks, inventor, and a few others on rare occasions.

I don't know many jobs that require an engineering degree to do fabrication tho :wink:

touge_ae101 · Post by **touge_ae101** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:05 pm

Boost_4_Life wrote:hey is Rory still the man to see down there? company i work for has a good final year project for next year as i havent got time to look into it. Its a machine vision project and as i recall that's his baby...

yeah Rory is still the man down here. interesting character!

i think the 4th year mechatronic students are working on something that sounds similar this year. using cameras to measure rayban sunglass lenses to measure within a stupid amount.

touge_ae101 · Post by **touge_ae101** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:10 pm

pureadrenalin wrote:We normally have an engineering student or two each summer, normally mech/mechatronics/electrical/chem tho.

company is itnz.co.nz

Tell me more about "Product Engineering", i'e, what can it offer an oil and gas design company, and what could we offer you.

I'm the design office manager there. We mainly deal with oil and gas design (petrochemical plants, pressure vessels), and the odd other things (super yachts, offshore rig stuff, geothermal, etc)
Design office usually uses Autocad, solidworks, inventor, and a few others on rare occasions.

I don't know many jobs that require an engineering degree to do fabrication tho

product development is a bit of a merging of all kinds of engineering. we do all the same 1st-2nd years as the mechatronics students so cover all the basic maths (not so basic) and a bit of electronics then in the 3rd-4th years we do a lot of design based project work along the lines of industrial design. but what i've found is that a lot of the design skills are transferrable/common sense when attacking a project. i'm not neccassirily looking for a product development job but something along the design lines would be nice.

as an example we are currently doing a project where we are designing/building a plastic bottle crusher for the household. we have to do market research, establish target market, determine specs they want and then build it into a design which will meet the expectations of the market its going to sell into.
it is a formalised way of reducing risk when creating a new product/revising existing product to ensure people will buy it.

i see my fabrication skills as a bonus to an employer as so many engineering graduates have never set foot in an actual workshop/have any practical skills.

oh i see you are ITL in taranaki.

a couple of my friends have worked there the last couple summers.

pureadrenalin · Post by **pureadrenalin** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:21 pm

then they probably got sick of me giving them jobs to do.
the poor sheep........ lol

EssDub · Post by **EssDub** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:37 pm

Bloody savages...

Boost_4_Life · Post by **Boost_4_Life** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:54 pm

mmm yes, i remember the rayban project well, he makes everyone do it. unfortunately not much goin on at my work (industrial automation) but ill keep my ear to the ground.

neon_spork · Post by **neon_spork** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:14 am

pureadrenalin wrote:We normally have an engineering student or two each summer, normally mech/mechatronics/electrical/chem tho.

company is itnz.co.nz

Tell me more about "Product Engineering", i'e, what can it offer an oil and gas design company, and what could we offer you.

I'm the design office manager there. We mainly deal with oil and gas design (petrochemical plants, pressure vessels), and the odd other things (super yachts, offshore rig stuff, geothermal, etc)
Design office usually uses Autocad, solidworks, inventor, and a few others on rare occasions.

I don't know many jobs that require an engineering degree to do fabrication tho

ITL would be a really good place for some summer work.

We also often take on summer engineering students. The positions would be advertised on our website in the next month or so. nzrc.co.nz
If you are looking for industries to work in Oil and Gas is definitely a pretty exciting place for engineers.

touge_ae101 · Post by **touge_ae101** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:26 am

from what i know about ITL they do mainly electronics engineering/process control work which isn't really up my alley.

what kind of projects/jobs do your summer students get to work on normally?
product development is not so much about the technical side of engineering, but the decision making process and a bit like project management on a small scale. but i also really enjoy design and would love to get some experience.