Co-op: Mechanical Engineer - Focus Design

About the role

This student will be a major contributor to the development of new and existing brake and clutch designs. They will also work on improving existing design tools to quickly deliver custom rotary and linear designs. Side projects may involve developing demos and fun applications of the technology that grab people's attention. Additionally, this student has the opportunity to invent or contribute to the invention of new electroadhesive products.

Responsibilities

• Design custom robotics components to meet customer specifications using existing tools.
• Participate in customer meetings and translate designs into production files.
• Place orders with suppliers and perform incoming and outgoing quality control.
• Work to improve existing design tools to quickly deliver custom rotary and linear designs.
• Support our customers, grow our product line, and contribute to our success as a startup.
• Contribute to patent drafting and support the development of new electroadhesive products.

Requirements

• Past students have become patent authors and this student has an opportunity to do so as well if they are creative and contribute ideas that are novel and industrially relevant.
• Skills that will be utilized and developed during this co-op: CAD design, free body diagrams, mechanical sketches, engineering drawings, stress analysis and FEA, Matlab, Python, data analysis, customer interaction, supplier interaction, documentation and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• ESTAT has a preference for Juniors and Seniors, but can consider lower classman with exceptional hands on experience.
• No one comes to ESTAT with experience in electroadhesives. It takes time to learn and become independent.
• ESTAT has a strong preference for students who are considering two 6 month rotations as this is the best way to ensure they can make lasting contributions.

Benefits

• ESTAT partners with large corporations and is exploring the possibility of a co-op exchange program in which co-ops learn about electroadhesives at ESTAT and then spend their second rotation helping our partners implement them in their systems and products.

Skills

• CAD design
• Free body diagrams
• Mechanical sketches
• Engineering drawings
• Stress analysis and FEA
• Matlab
• Python
• Data analysis
• Customer interaction
• Supplier interaction
• Documentation and presentation skills

Pay

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Schedule

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