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"As a single country, Chile is the most important nation for P&H in terms of shovels sold and services performed. They also have the most advanced and developed techniques for optimizing shovel maintenance," Duerksen said.
His work saw him coming up with and executing his entire project himself, in Spanish no less.
"What it makes it so cool is that I didn't get stuck doing something boring like time studies or typing values into spreadsheets - I was able to independently develop a project that has the potential to be applied at a global level," Duerksen said. "It has been an incredible work experience, both in terms of practicality for job placement and in personal development as a mining engineer. It has far exceeded my expectations of what a summer job could be, and I know that it is an experience that has been nothing but beneficial and that I will remember for years to come."
Senior art major Jessica Harllee is hitting the road to learn some new and exciting things for her summer. She will be traveling to California to a showcase on time-lapse photography. She has been helping her friend with his project over the last eight months.
"The project uses a motion control camera to document Charlie as he loses weight over a period of time," said Harllee. "He's going to create interactive animations from the footage that can be viewed in a gallery setting or online. This allows him to visualize his weight loss instead of relying on numbers."
Many important companies such as Pixar, Autodesk and ILM will be at the showcase. In addition to showcasing her work and helping her friend, Harllee hopes to make some valuable contacts.
"It will give me the opportunity to see what's going on in the industry right now, what's coming up and maybe even make some contacts," Harllee said.
Finally, senior mechanical engineering major Alex Navin showed that one need not leave Blacksburg to make a real impact. He has done research in both film cooling effectiveness and gas turbine blade analysis.
His group has been working to design new film cooling holes for the vanes and blades in gas turbine engines. These are important for cooling functions in engines.
"For this I have actually designed and built a test rig to test 100X scale models of film cooling holes," Navin said. His work will ultimately help out some graduate students with their theses.
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Ever talk to any students outside of the hillcrest community? Must one be in honors to have had an impressive summer experience?
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I was not in the Hillcrest Community and always had great summers for working for a company. You make your own future so make some phone calls and get a summer internship on your own instead of playing computer games.
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Greensboro's in SOUTH Carolina? Hmm, tell that to Guilford County, NORTH Carolina.
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"If you aren't already impressed with what Virginia Tech students are doing with their summers, you need to meet senior Alek Duerksoe. Duerksen has majors in mining and minerals engineering with minors in creative writing and geology." So is it Duerksoe or Duerksen? Sounds like the person that wrote this article took the summer off.
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Michelin doesn't have a plant in Greensboro, NC. Most of their plants are in SC, probably Lexington or Spartanburg
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There is a Greensboro, SC
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Michelin's North American headquarter is in Greenville, SC.
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