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Internship Leads to Greater Knowledge and Ultimately, Networking Opportunities
by Kevin Slezak
company, splitting time between its headquarters in Hartford, WI and their former headquarters in Brown Deer, WI. Previously, I had a brief exposure to investment casting through my senior capstone project with MetalTek International’s Investcast division. Signicast greatly expanded upon my knowledge and interest on the subject. All process engineer interns spent
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the first several weeks rotating through all the processing positions in the Hartford facility, allowing us to obtain a quick, but detailed picture of the beginning-to- end product production. Through the remainder of the summer, each intern was assigned a project that was to be their primary focus with assisting the process engineers filling the remaining time. This work included metallurgical testing as well as miscellaneous testing and data analysis related to other processes. I was assigned two summer projects.
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spent the 2018 summer as a process engineer intern at Signicast Corporation, an investment casting
The first project involved testing our company’s relatively newer optical emission spectrometer. The spectrometer had equipment and software that our other spectrometers didn’t, and I investigated and tested the new features to ultimately determine if the machine was working as designed. Completion of the project meant better quality control for our alloys in the future. Project two explored applications of ultrasound to our processing. This project was very open ended, leading to extensive background research culminating in a report and presentation on potential technology applications. Signicast assisted in helping me
obtain a scholarship at the end of my internship, leading to an invitation to the Investment Casting Institute’s Technical Conference. My university’s relationship with FEF helped make my trip to the conference possible, allowing me to network with experts in the field and learn more about the investment casting industry.
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