2024 - Mechanical Engineer Internship/Co-Op
Who We Are:
Carnegie Robotics partners with a variety of industry leaders to provide customized robotic solutions for any problem. Our expertise in building and deploying hardened solutions paired with our partners decades of expertise in an industry lead to very successful outcomes. We are not afraid to take on the challenges of any industry, and have applications in a wide variety of ways: floor scrubbing, boating, logistics, industrial inspection, precision positioning, mining, off-road autonomy, and minesweeping. Whether you already have an interest in robotics, or are just joining the field and are looking to find your “niche”, Carnegie Robotics is the place for you.
Interning with us:
Carnegie Robotics seeks outstanding students for our internships and co-ops. We view internships as excellent opportunities for us to learn about potential full-time hires while also contributing to students' education and their understanding of work practices in an engineering setting. Many of our interns return annually and take on ever more challenging tasks or join our team as a full time hire. Please note that this is a full time, on site position.
We accept college sophomore, junior, senior, masters and PhD level students. In all cases we expect to see excellent grades, work ethic and a strong desire to accomplish goals. We pay well and will equip you to grow in your technical abilities.
As part of the internship, you will present your work to the leadership team of CRL (CEO, Chief Scientist, Staff Engineers etc) as well as to the other mentors and interns. This is a great opportunity to learn presentation skills, document your work, and answer technical questions.
Work assigned to interns depends largely on business needs at the time of internship. Some examples of previous areas of work include:
Design
- Contributed to a camera housing that later entered production
- Design a vacuum form mold for a robot body panel
- Design optical alignment tooling for the production team
- Design a custom test for a robotic component or subsystem
- Helped develop a test apparatus to simulate the motion of a pipe inspection camera
Testing and Analysis
- Analyze production performance data on camera build quality and speed
- Perform thermal analysis on an embedded computer
- Perform finite element analysis to determine the vibration performance of a camera
- Analyze test failures and field failures of robot components, propose redesign
- Perform thermal analysis of high performance, fanless computer operating in a rugged environment
- Salt spray and vibration testing of rugged cameras.
- Assisted with live field testing a marine perception system in a Pittsburgh marina.
Interfacing with a Multidisciplinary team
- Learn about computer vision camera models and computer vision algorithms
- Test and document robot performance
Successful Mechanical Internship candidates often bring the following to Carnegie Robotics:
- Take a hands-on approach to engineering; an interest in learning how to tool and machine designs, have an iterative approach, and the curiosity to see a project through to completion
- Have designed and built their own complex engineering projects and share a portfolio of their projects (If your academic coursework is more team based, we’re interested in how and what you contributed)
- Participation in a club or activity where teamwork and collaboration are emphasized - whether it’s First Robotics in High School, a Society of Engineers, Formula SAE, SAE Baja, SAE Aero, or a non engineering interest; we’re interested in how you interact and engage with others, build upon ideas, collaborate, and work through challenges as a team
- Exhibit a thorough understanding of their engineering coursework in school; we find interns that exercise and utilize fundamental engineering principles are successful
- Have some experience using computer aided design software packages. Although Carnegie Robotics primarily uses SolidWorks, experience in Unigraphics, Creo, Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor, or similar is helpful.
Hourly wage range is based on education and experience