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Originally Posted by Christina
What is the greatest highlight of your engineering career so far? And, what was the worst part of your engineering career so far? And try to keep this to work related aspects, not necessarily strictly FIRST related.
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The highlight in my short experience so far was actually the very last thing that I did as an undergrad. I worked for Gillette in London, England for 2 months. My project partner and I redesigned a pick and place mechanism for a high speed line running in excess of 160 parts per minute. We ended up creating a single-cam driven 10-bar linkage mechanism. When we were done, we had this awesome cad model of it, a stack of prints being sent to the machine shop, 30 pages of mathcad equations backing up that it won't destroy itself while running, and a 200 page report that we submitted to the head of European Engineering. We put our hearts and souls into that design for 7 weeks straight and it was awesome when we finished it and received a standing ovation from a room full of Gillette execs.
The worst was this one time I designed/built a large EOAT (end-of-arm-tool) to go on a piece of automation here at Nypro. I spent several weeks designing, cadding, machining, assembly, debug, etc on it. Gave it to the guys on the floor to use at the end of the day and went home. I came in the next morning to find it sitting on my desk broken because it got squished in a molding machine.