Speaker: Bryce Garretson
Introduce yourself and tell us about your co-op this semester.
Bryce Garretson: Uh So I'm a junior and this is my second co-op. I did the first optional co-op and I'm working at uh a technologies um as a mechanical engineer intern. And essentially I just do a lot of uh research and development. Um you know, working on some of their uh projects, they do have a lot of like military contracts. So can't get into too much depth with that. But um essentially just going through and doing some research, whatever they need and uh doing some different testing and um you know, designing some different fixtures that I can use to then assemble and do some testing with.
While on co-op, what is a project that you've been a part of that has inspired you?
Bryce Garretson: Uh So a project that I worked on at my co-op um I required me to like, use a manual mill and mill out and machine a bunch of different uh metal parts that I had like previously designed and then printed out the drawing and then used that drawing to that machine and that like, really inspired me to like get more into machining parts and uh getting more experience with like uh um like machine shop work, whether that be like the metal a or like the machine mill. And, and I find that like, really interesting and something I hadn't had experience with before.
What have you learned that you will use in your career?
Bryce Garretson: Uh some stuff that I learned that will be useful in my career is definitely like um how in bigger um contracts and engineering situations, how like the timeline works and how like there's so many different steps to get approvals and then, you know, it's not as like fast paced as you know, just designing something and then testing it and putting it into uh like production and then also like, uh you know, using solid works to make drawings and how like detailed those drawings actually have to be so that when you give them to someone who's gonna uh create them, whether that be like a third party company or someone within your own company, like how those need to be uh detailed so that they can make your part correctly.
