I was remembering at this moment my experience on my internship at LEAR Corporation and I would like to share how I ended up there, the friends I met, and the lessons I learned that I applied in my present life.
APPLICATION
I sent my resumes to a number of companies where I could spend my 240 hours of internship as the course requirements but I already set my mind that I want to be part of Lear. So even though I was called for an interview from a hotel company, although I really went and faced the recruiting manager, I did not sign the contract of being an intern there. So I waited and hoped that hopefully Lear recruitment team will contact me and surprisingly, they did and after a week they confirmed that I am a part of the new batch of interns in their company! You cant imagine how happy I am!
The smile on this picture would be an understatement of how grateful I am to be an intern in Lear. Because why? Isnt it great to finally be a part of a company who supplies first tier from asian to europian cars? Although we were not able to experience first hand the assembly of parts they supplied, me and my co-interns were humbled enough to experience how they design the junction box using Unigraphics. The junction box designing is taken care of by the Electromechanical Department where I belonged. And man, was that tough! I wanted to share this IG video I posted on my instagram account for a first.
This is one of the toughest modelling practice for beginners like me! (HEHE)
Before we practiced the modelling part of the design of course we were taught on the basics of how to draw and assemble in Unigraphics. And aside from hands on designing, they were able to embark us with the engineers' knowledge through a lot of orientations and overviews. These are the ones that I remembered:
- Mechanical and Environmental Overview
- Dimensional Metrology Overview
- Product Overview Capability
- Thermal Simulation Overview
- Finite Element Analysis
- Injection Mold Design Overview
- Tolerance Stack-up Analysis
We were then monitored of our learning through each of the overviews and undergone written exams! This is a big part for me to be able to learn new software and overviews of the laboratory uses in Lear.
PLANT TOUR
Aside from all the hard work of learning the design, we were introduced to the Duck-Il Korea Incorporated- Phils company located at Cebu Light Industrial Park. We have learned a lot about plastic injection molding. The designing is already crucial to begin with, add it up with the heavy machinery needed to complete a roughly 5x5x5-inch plastic product used for the junction box. In Duck-Il, they have 34 injection machines and 19 hoppers to produce engine room box connectors to Lear! That made me in awe of how mechanical engineers work at their chosen field and somehow inspired to be just hardworking as them.
This is a picture taken outside Duck-Il with my co-interns at Lear, our supervisors, and the director of Duck-Il Korea-Phils, Engr. Ernesto Engalla Jr. I am the girl wearing white polo shirt in the near middle bottom side!
So enough of that, I dont want to bore you with the technical side of the work and just want to delve in meeting new friends from other universities!
MEETING NEW FRIENDS
This is us outside of the company just hanging out on our first day and requesting the company guard to take this picture! HEHEH hey! Their guards there are friendly enough to do that and so approachable! 😁 Me and my new found friends got along so well already even on our first day and that enough is a reason to be inspired to attend the internship so early in the morning!
We even went to videoke sessions to know more about each other and to simply bond through singing songs and hitting high notes and not hitting those notes as well and played card games and made up games that made us drink coffee mixed with junk foods as consequence of losing! HAHAHA!
SUMMER OUTING
We were grateful enough to know intelligent individuals in the department and then this gathering happened! We were invited by our supervisors to attend to their yearly gathering and this time the chosen venue is in Genesis Valley. We played games, jammed in the swimming pool, ate delicious meals, and sang videoke to our hearts' content. Truly one of the memorable happenings of my summer 2018. And I'm just gonna smash my favorite pictures right down below because composing this article makes me miss this moment!
We got to know the engineers' amazing behavior outside of work, less technicalities, just a day off of mind stressing work challenges by a 9-hour shift. And guess what! To entertain everyone we the interns even danced! Wow we even managed to do that (hahaha!) but I do not have the video to show it to you for now hehehe.
CULMINATING ACTIVITY
And now the hardest part of every relationship build even in that tiny 240 hours of staying, we bade goodbye and the company prepared for a culmination event for us. We are told to prepare takeaway speeches and present to everyone, on my part. I have discussed what we have learned in plastic molding, thus the picture.
And finally this is us receiving the certificate of completion!
The experience and the learning we got as interns in Lear Corporation molded us to be the better versions of ourselves. And with that we are forever thankful for this kind of opportunity especially getting to know the engineers we sometimes label to just our elder brothers and sisters who treat us snacks (HAHA!) Thank you and Adios! To more adventures with you guys! We will see again!
Yours truly,
Esmi
Allow me to put in more pictures here (hehehe)
P.S. to readers: They call me Esmi because Sir Jhon Omila thought that was my name and he called me out loud as Esmi. And then that became my name there!!!
Peace out!!! Til next time!