I finished my mirrored op sketches. I polished and styled my excel dashboard. It was not a very eventful day. It was mostly goodbyes and thank yous. I was happy that it was thank yous coming from my co-workers as well as myself. I felt like I did good work. I think the biggest thing I learned from this experience was that I am already very prepared to be an engineer. I learned a lot and it is hard to reflect on it all at once, but I'll try. I was already confident in my social skills and that they would help me in engineering. This internship helped solidify that confidence. I made friends and the managers and higher ups socialized with me more than some employees that had been there for a long time. I expected to be mostly on the sidelines and hidden away but I got to know a lot of different people and that definitely set me apart. I didn't think this internship would make me want to do engineering any less; I did not expect it to make me want to go into engineering so muc
I finally got to make and edit Operation sketches. Since the side walls are symmetric, I was able to do my first op sketches off of other ones and just mirror them. The sketches took all the work I had been doing and put it together. I used excel sheets to match the symmetric parts. I also used the search form I made to find the tools and files I needed to take drawings of. I used my practice in Inventor to navigate the model of the side wall and make drawings of the parts I needed. Inventor also helped me ensure I was taking the symmetric parts. Once I had the drawings I was able to put them into the op sketches and use my practice in AutoCAD to make the drawings look neat and organized as well as put dimensions on my drawings for reference. This was helpful because I got to know the processes used while solidifying my practiced techniques. It was especially helpful because I was able to compare mine to other drawings for reference because it was my first time.