Mechanical Engineering Intern
At Kiewit, I was placed on the Henery Ford Health South Campus Central Energy Hub mechanical engineering team. This facility was being built to provide running water to the adjacent hospital. On the team, I was in charge of completing set point calculations for each system in the facility and developing a specification and deliverables package to be sent out for bid to vendors. In addition to work on my main project, I was also assigned an overhead task that can aid in all future projects; developing tools to determine the pressure drop caused by weld beads in HDPE pipes. This project was a great experience for me as I got to research the problem, run simulations in AFT Fathom, compile and interpret data in Excel, and finally deliver a clean Excel sheet that quickly takes pipe parameters and outputs an estimated pressure loss due to weld beads.