Internship Opportunity at Veolia Energy Plant

Support Veolia Energy Plant Engineering: 

• Veolia seeks an Engineering Intern for six (6) months to work 40 hours per week. The Intern will support Veolia corporate engineering as directed in regards updates to the South East and St. Paul energy plants. The interface will be the on-site operations & engineering staff. 
• Walk down plant systems and develop “As Built” operations Piping & Instrument Diagrams (P&ID’s) utilizing CAD. Final product will be an AutoCAD drawing generated as part of this effort. System component identification will be integrated in this process. 
• Ability and willingness to learn plant and steam, distribution systems, operations, and maintenance activities. 
• Provide operations engineering as needed for plant & distribution performance optimization. 
• Must be safety conscience, able to follow direction, and have a questioning attitude. 
• Motivated and dynamic person with ability to work independently and part of a team 
• Technically oriented 
• Resourceful and proactive 

Requirements:

• Working towards a BS in Engineer (Mechanical or Chemical) 
• Relative coursework ( i.e Thermodynamics) 
• Knowledge of steam and water systems a plus 
• AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and Power Point a must. 
• Good interpersonal skills 
• Internship Period: Aug/Sept through Dec 2015. This is a non-co-op position.

Contact Information:

Linda Rosenberg
Senior Recruiter
VEOLIA NORTH AMERICA
Municipal and Commercial Business
200 E. Randolph, Suite 7900, Chicago, IL 60601
linda.rosenberg@veolia.com
www.veolianorthamerica.com
312 552 2807 / office
847 322 7410 / cell

AutoCAD Drafter Job Opportunity (non co-op position)

AutoCAD Drafter (Seasonal- Part time Position) 

Company: General Mills 

Location: Chanhassen, MN 

To apply, email a copy of your resume to Alexandra.Nungesser@genmills.com. 

PURPOSE: Gain or applying practical AutoCAD skills while ensuring the integrity and accuracy of plant facility drawings and maintain company standards for CAD drawings. 

MINIMUM/BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• Currently pursuing or graduated from AS or Technical Degree/Certificate in Drafting/Mechanical Design or similar, 
• Practical experience not required but preferred.
• Ability to use AutoCAD. 
• Minimum GPA 3.0. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Field verification of existing facility layout and schematic drawing accuracy.
• Complete updates of layout drawings. 
• Understand and ensure compliance with company CAD standards. 

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES/BEHAVIORS

• To use AutoCAD with scaled and schematic drawings.
• To work with external reference drawings on AutoCAD.
• To integrate drawings with different scale, block and layer definitions in to standard formats. 
• Basic knowledge of common process, packaging, electrical and facility equipment for plants. 
• Basic knowledge of process flow diagrams and instrumentation diagrams.

From the Director's Desk: Resume Advice

Talking with a company representative during our recent interview week, I was reminded how important proficient writing skills are to a prospective employee. 

An employer, a former Co-op student himself, told me how he weeded out candidates by simply looking at the quality of the submitted resume. Little things such as misspelled words or grammar stuck out.

He mentioned that his reasoning is as follows: if a student can't put together the document that is the first impression to a prospective employer, then they don't have the attention to detail required of an engineer. 

He also told me he is always surprised at the lack of attention to those simple details in some of the resumes he sees. 

Best Regards
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
 Cordialmente
致,
  礼！ 

Frank

Editor's Note: 
 In case you were wondering, resumes and all the little details within them matter! Good thing there are resources to fine-tune your resume before your next interview!

Students:Helpful resources for resumes and cover letters can be found at CSE Career Services. They can help you from the beginning of brainstorming to the finishing touches to hand to an employer at an interview or Job Fair. Even though you may already have a resume that got you a job, you can send yours in to the Career Services and get helpful feedback for the next time an opportunity arises!

Employers: We want to hear from you! What aspects of a good resume stand out the most?

Platonic Figure, U of M

Interview Week in All It's Humorous Glory

As Interview Week Spring 2015 is now in the rear-view mirror, we have had the chance to sit back and enjoy the view. It was a busy spring break week on a very empty campus for our office. Few non-Co-op students were milling around while our students were hard at work during their spring break, suiting up for back-to-back interviews. 

Overall it was a successful week, but no interview week is successful without a little humor along the way. 

Frank Kelso, our Co-op Program Director reflected on the week saying, "I found one behind-the-scenes interchange particularly humorous:

Every year the MTS Systems representatives like to throw problems at students during the interview and have them think out loud. Two students were discussing this outside the interview room in the waiting room and lamented about their poor performance. I noticed an interviewer from another company, Rob*, listening in and laughing to himself.

Over lunch with the representatives that day we had a chance to talk about how the interviews were going. Rob shared with the group that he couldn't help laughing when he heard about the tough questions MTS included in their interview. 

To paraphrase Rob: "I remember 9 years ago when I was a prospective co-op student. I sweated bullets trying to answer your questions!"

Rob took a lot of good-natured joking at lunch, because he added that he didn't get an offer with MTS. It's okay; his career took off just fine, thanks to his Co-op experience!"

Overall, we couldn't be happier about the week. Looking forward to many more tough interviews in the semesters to come!

*Different names used to protect identities

Co-op Opportunity with IDeaS Software Development

Summary:
We are seeking a Co-op student who will, as a member of the IDeaS Software Development team, participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. They will join a delivery team that is actively creating new features to enhance our revenue management products. While on our team, they will have a great opportunity to expand their technical skillset as well as work in an agile environment at believes in test-first, continuous integration and deployment.  Some of the technologies we use are: Spring (core, integration, batch, etc.), Java EE (EJB/JMS /JPA), Vaadin, JAXB, REST, SOAP, SQL Server, MongoDB, Jenkins, Sonar as well as many others.

Essential Job Responsibilities
• Design and develop Java web application features.
• Produce necessary technical documentation.
• Performs other duties, as assigned. 

Essential Job Qualifications  
• Planned degree in Computer Science, EE or CE (undergraduate or graduate)
• Completed at least 2 years of undergraduate degree in targeted degree
• 3.0 or above GPA
• Experience with Java or JVM supported languages (Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Clojure, etc) either via coursework or industry experience

Other
• Flexibility in work hours to manage interaction with geographically distributed employees, vendors and/or partners
• Work is typically performed in an office environment, using simple, easy muscular movements, involving only the handling of light materials, tools, or equipment in easy work positions, and with no special speed requirements or long stretches of exertion. 
• Vision requirements for this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered.

"This job description is intended to present the general content and requirements for the performance of this job. The description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements."

Additional Information 
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

SAS is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.

SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

To Apply
Applications accepted online only at www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/search.html
Please refer to job 20006328 when applying online. Other forms of application may not be considered.

Summer 2015 Internship Opportunity

Despatch Industries has a Summer 2015 internship opportunity for a mechanical or electrical engineering major who has completed their junior year.

 Despatch  Industries,  a  division  Illinois  Tool  Works  Inc.  has  specialized  in  providing  innovative  thermal processing technology solutions for over 100 years. Despatch has grown and evolved into a global brand that is recognized for providing top quality products and world-class customer service. Despatch has three business units focused on meeting the demands of the thermal, solar and carbon fiber markets. Despatch is the market leader in several areas, e.g. metallization contact firing in solar cell manufacturing, and oxidation ovens for the carbon fiber industry. The unique opportunity that exists at a capital equipment manufacturer that has a market leading position like Despatch, is that improvements made to our products not only help Despatch but can improve entire industries.

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Mechanical/Electrical Engineer Intern to join our team for the summer. The qualified candidate will be involved in engineering projects and will spend time in Engineering, Operations, and the Despatch Innovation Center. The position will be located in Lakeville, Minnesota.

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES

Examples of past intern projects include:

• Development of an air bending feature for our oxidation ovens which included design, simulation, hands-on manufacturing and characterization

• Product/component  simplification  and  standardization  which  included  analysis  of  existing  components, research on alternatives and design of new component layout

• Thermal  characterization  of  solar  metallization  pastes  which  included  literature  research,  design  of experiments, conducting experiments, analysis of results

The idea is that each intern works on a project that is tailored to the specific skills and interests of the candidate. The scope of the projects is chosen, so that the intern is able to complete it within the intern period. In addition to the project itself the intern has the chance to learn about the business practices and philosophies of a Fortune 200 company like ITW.

If   you   are   interested   in   getting   a   behind-the-   scenes   look   of   internships   at   Despatch   please   visit http://goo.gl/7Y4YBK.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor level or higher degree program in Mechanical or Electrical engineering, having completed at a minimum your Junior year by summer of 2015

•    Manufacturing experience preferred but not required

•    High degree of technical aptitude

•    Results oriented

•    Strong communication skills

TO APPLY: Send resume to  HR@despatch.com

Co-op Job Fair - February 3, 2015

Many companies determine their interview roster based on the students

 they meet at the Job Fair! 

 The Engineering Co-op Job Fair will be located in the Architecture Courtyard in Rapson Hall, Tuesday, February 3, 2015, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.  Free pizza and pop will be served!


The following companies will be at the 2015 Spring Engineering Co-op Job Fair and are interested in hiring undergraduate Co-op students for the summer or fall 2015 semesters.

Colder Products Company

Daikin Applied

HGA, Inc

Honeywell, Inc.

Interrad Medical

Life Fitness

Medtronic - Cardiac Rhythm

MTS Systems

PaR Systems, Inc.

Parker Hannifin - Quick Coupling Division

Pentair Technical Solutions

St. Jude Medical

TURCK

The following companies will not be at the Job Fair but plan on interviewing students for 2015 summer and fall semester Co-op positions.

CertainTeed Corporation

Heraeus Medical Components

Medtronic - Coronary and Structural Heart

The Toro Company

Xcel Energy - High Bridge

Both of these lists are incomplete as company registrations for the Co-op’s Spring Interview Week and Job Fair are still arriving.

Student applications for the Co-op Program are due Wednesday, February 5, 2015. 
Interviews will be held during Spring Break.