This week’s featured student is Parker McCullough, an industrial engineering major, from Rockwood, Tennessee, who worked as a co-op student at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In reporting on his rotation, McCullough worked with both the hardware controls team and the Personnel Protection Systems team (PPS). In the hardware team, he was mainly in charge of creating test procedures for the machine protection system chassis. That included getting the specifications for the hardware requirements, writing LabVIEW code, and implementing the test procedure. He also tested several different classes of hardware.
In the PPS team, McCullough worked on a software project that tests oxygen deficiency monitors. The most valuable benefit received was the opportunity to work and learn in a professional and cutting edge facility.