This week’s featured student is Austin Gomez, a mechanical engineering major, from Maryville, Tennessee. He worked as a coop student with Altec Industries in Burnsville, North Carolina.
Gomez worked in the design department as a product engineer and his responsibilities were to work with Solidworks, a 3D design program, and make models and drawings of parts and assemblies that will be released to the floor once completed so production can begin. He has already completed two bodies, both in which he had to contact the sales representative because changes were made.
Gomez is currently working on drawings for a new project. All drawings of parts and assemblies must be completed before production can begin. Austin has been able to advance his knowledge and skills within Solidworks and has learned to work with new file sharing programs that the company uses. These programs are called Teamcenter, Ethos, and Oracle. All three programs work together to support the database in which hundreds of thousands of files are stored and shared throughout the entire company, worldwide.