Today was my last day shadowing as my independent study was cut short by a mandatory orientation at Penn State. This morning started early, around 7 am with a drive down to the Amtrak station in Lancaster, PA. I arrived at the station 30 minutes early to find that there was no long term parking …
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As I was busy with the mill tour yesterday, I didn’t get the chance to visit the third day of the leadership conference. Luckily, day three was not incredibly important, and today they were doing their final project. The men stayed at the conference center until 1 am designing specified “rockets” and “cars” to the …
Today I had to come prepared with steel toed shoes as I would be touring the vast number of mill buildings at Carpenter. I didn’t have many expectations for that the mill would be like, I pictured it as I had seen in an occasional movie here and there: dark and scary. The way movies …
After a couple very long work days in the lab and office, I joined many of the engineers at a leadership conference at The Inn at Reading. This was a leadership course oriented around the kind of project management necessary for successful project leaders in engineering. The program was mainly focused around software called Clarity …
I spent today shadowing the manager of alloy characterization at Carpenter. The alloy characterization group is responsible for analyzing samples prior to production through tests like the tensile test, the creep test, the charpy force test, and electron spectrometer analysis. The first test I mentioned was a tensile test which essentially stretches out the metal …
Today was my first day shadowing and I spent it with two engineers in the additive manufacturing lab. My day started early around 7:30 am in the office; I was given a visitors sticker then The Global Director of Research & Development showed me a presentation of Carpenter’s objectives and processes (much of which I …
The majority of today was spent in the car, driving 8 hours from Toledo to our house in Reading, PA. I got home just in time to help with yard work prior to going out to dinner with a woman from Scotland who would be leading the leadership conferences at Carpenter throughout the week. We …
Today was my last day of research before I travel to Philadelphia for my work experience, so I spent today doing in-depth research on the process of making steel, specifically Carpenter’s manufacturing process. The process begins with primary melting, which produces specialty alloys in powdered metal form to be further processed. Primary melting begins with …
Carpenter appeals to numerous markets including defense, aerospace, medical, industrial, transportation, and energy markets and does so on a global market. During my shadowing, I’m aiming to uphold the core values of Carpenter which include accountability, collaboration, respect, and integrity. I will be shadowing my mentor at the the Reading, PA location of Carpenter, which …
I started the first day of intensives with a riveting 4 hours of AP Calculus testing, leaving me very much brain dead and in a mathematical mindset for the remainder of the day. Already in this mindset I decided to make the most of it and put it towards my research day. High school students …
Applications of Alloys 