Rohan Kurse completed a mechanical engineering and environmental health and safety internship at Meggitt Control Systems San Diego. During the internship, he worked on several projects including redesigning websites, tracking contractor information, creating digital safety boards, and designing new components. He gained experience in design, manufacturing processes, product safety, and communication skills. Rohan completed the internship having learned valuable engineering and problem-solving skills applicable to his career.

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Internship
Meggitt Control Systems San Diego
Rohan Kurse
Mechanical Engineering and Environmental
Health and Safety Intern
Manager: Dennis Marx

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About Me
• From San Jose, CA
• University of California San
Diego
– 4th year Environmental
Engineering Major
• Prospective Engineer
• Interested in Design, Ocean
Sciences, Future of Energy

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Internship Goals
• Develop professional connections
• Explore potential career opportunities and find out
what fields I am interested in
• Apply my technical engineering knowledge to practical
real life industry issues
• Learn more applicable skills

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Projects

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Redesign and Manage Updating of EagleNet
• EagleNet was outdated and
the old website had faulty
links.
• Redesigned pages
• Created links to important
information for easy employee
access to company files
• STATUS: All links are working. New links
to documents that employees wish to add can
be added (Contact Dennis)

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Contractor Information
• Contact, communicate, and coordinate with contractors
• Created an Excel Workbook to track Active contractors and approval
status. (contact information, links to each approval document)
• Creates ease of access to contractor documents
• Easy to check status of approval (all forms submitted)

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EHS Layer 3 DLA Board Environmental Section
• Created to inform
and track
environmental
concerns related
to MCS-SD.
Beginning of a
Proposal to retrofit
lighting

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Improve Data Acquisition for Monthly
Reporting
• All EHS data can now
be viewed in one
location.
• Connected spreadsheet
directly to database so
no need for tedious
manual inputting of
numbers
• More efficient!!

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Digitize EHS Safety DLA Board for all Departments
• Using VBA and Excel,
created a digitized version of
the Safety Boards for each
DLA Board
• Matches directly with the
Help Request system
• Beneficial because old closed
items no longer clutter the
board and only open items
are shown. Open items
aren't hidden in pages of
material.
• Status: Live and updated weekly
at the least

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Creation of the new Help Request System
• Created new forms, reports,
and queries.
• Designed the system so that
users can view their open
tasks and they can sign off
tasks that were assigned to
them.
• Learned VBA coding, and
Microsoft Access.
• Status: System Operational
and in use.

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Help Request System User Manual
• Created a Training
Document where
users can learn how
to use the Help
Request System
Status: Guide emailed out and
posted online.

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Redesign Actuator Resolver Sleeve
• Troubleshooted and
redesigned resolver sleeve
for the HFG Actuator
assembly
• Created larger opening for
wire path for ease of
assembly and wire protection
• Contacted PR Precision and
discussed design change and
any potential cost changes
with a representative
Status: At “CRB” in approval Process

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Redesign Actuator Housing
• Troubleshooted and
redesigned housing for the
HFG Actuator assembly
• Created larger opening for
wire path for ease of
assembly and wire protection
• Contacted PR Precision and
discussed design change and
any potential cost changes
with a representative
• Status: Pulled back due to
another design change on housing

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HFG Actuator Housing Change #2
• New issue arose where motor wire passage was too tight.
• Contacted/Worked with PR Precision to find the best way to draw a
larger opening that was easy to mill
Status: Drafting
Request submitted

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HFG Assembly
Current Design Shallbe

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HFG Assembly
Shallbe

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Design cover for RAX 1.0 Housing (CPU side)
• Designed a cover to
protect the flame path
on the CPU side of the
housing
• Status: Drafting Request
Submitted and in Benoy’s Queue

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Design cover for RAX 1.0 Housing (driver side)
• For the same
product, similarly
designed a cover to
protect the flame
path on the CPU
side of the housing.
Status: Drafting Request Submitted
and in Benoy’s Queue

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Redesign Lifting Fixture in Stockroom
• Modified Parts in
assembly so the lift head
can fit into the boxes to
lift the stainless steal
housings
• Wrote up simple force
analysis for why stress
test is not needed for
this change
• Status: In Agile
“Incorporation” Stage

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New Universal Hypot Station
• Started Working on a
design for a new
vertical, universal hypot
station for all hypot
tests.
• Corrects safety
concerns
• Speeds up
manufacturing
Status: In Design stage

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Designed New “All-in-one” Holder for ATP PREP
• Created a new Holder as
needed by manufacturing
technicians and EHS
concerns.
• Will be used to hold actuators
during assembly, and slide
them into new vertical hypot
stations
• Status: Prototype is currently
being machined onsite

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DR’s Submitted
• DR02659 (Holding fixture for ATP Prep)
• DR02642 (RAX Housing cover 1)
• DR02641 (RAX Housing cover 2)
• DR02626 (Stockroom Lifting Fixture)
• DR02635 (HFG Housing)
• DR02636 (Resolver Sleeve)

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Small Miscellaneous Work
• 6S Program
– Preformed introductory audits
• Vibration Test
– Worked with Jason Bench to test an EA for loose
connections in the wires on the shake table. Hypertronics
connector.
• Facilities Kaizen
• Completed the Water Board Annual Report
• Spent a lot of time going back and adding new
updates to better the help request system and fix
bugs

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Takeaways/ Things Learned
• Design for manufacturability
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• VBA Code
• Solidworks
• EHS Regulations and processes
• How to Identity unsafe conditions
• Manufacturing Processes
• Product Familiarity
• Improve tooling knowledge
• Importance of communication between Engineering team and cross-functional teams
• Importance of communicating with your “customer” so designer and customer are on the same
page
• Importance of looking at an issue first hand as an Engineer

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Thank You all for the Opportunity and
learning experiences!