Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Day 1- Wednesday, May 8
Today was a little different than what I will be normally doing because the upper management for the Aerospace Division came today for a tour of the labs. This meant that most people were busy preparing for the visit. Because of this Mr. Melzak was a little busy. I was able to shadow a coop student, Jacob Greco, from Case Western University working there. He works on solving different design flaws in prototypes in the fuel injector nozzles. The fuel injectors are the parts in a combustion engine that inject the fuel into the combustion chamber to be ignited to provide power. The combustion chamber is surrounded by ten to twenty of these fuel injectors that spray the fuel into the chamber in a way that burns the fuel evenly through out to create a constant temperature inside the chamber. The nozzle is what regulates the flow of fuel into the combustion chamber and distributes the fuel in an uniform mist. The coop student job was to fix problems caused in the assembly of the nozzle. On example of this was that two pieces of the fuel injector nozzle are bonded together by a metal ring that is melted between the two pieces, but the ring that was used had to much material wich made a gap where the two pieces should be bonded. He had to calculate how small the ring could be, but still have enough material to cover the whole bondering area of the two pieces without leaving any gaps.
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ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very interesting project to be doing…and very complicated! I am wondering what you plan on doing and learning as you go through your time there as an intern. I am an intern at a pro-Israel lobbying organization that works out of Chicago. I think we are definitely having very different experiences and I would be really interested in having some dialogue back and forth about that. For me, it is very political and office-based. But yours seems much more hands on and mechanical…But I also just wanted to know what you plan to get out of that project as like a goal...are you going to learn how all the mechanics work? Or are you just doing office work or behind the scenes stuff? What exactly does Parker Hannifin do? (I probably should know that...it sounds familiar but I am not really familiar with exactly what it is...) What is all of that technology stuff for? Your post seemed very professional and techy especially with your use of all those specific words for parts and pieces of the fuel injectors… impressive! Good luck as you continue and I look forward to talking and comparing projects as we go! :)
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DeleteI am not really sure if we are supposed to repsond to our comments, but since you had so many questions, I figured I could answer a few of them.
To start off, Parker Hannifin is a global engineering company that produces and design technology for Industrial and Aerospace applications (here is a link to their home page is you want to know more... www.parker.com). To answer your questions about what I am doing at Parke, my project has two parts. Part of the time I get to shadow people in their jobs at Parker so I can see what each of those jobs are. Basically I want to get a feel for what working at Parker Hannifin is like. The other part of my project is the more hands on part. I will be helping my mentor with different project, for example I started assembling an actuator box( I'll get into that in later posts) which we will use to test out the actuators. I hope this answers some of your questions. Hope you are enjoying your project as much as I am!