What's your day job?

[Mark Holschuh]

I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UW-Madison. I have been a Product Engineer for John Deere in Horicon, Wisconsin, for the past eight years. I have design responsibilities for engines and exhaust systems in our lawn and garden tractors, and sometimes help out with the Gators and zero-turn mowers as well. Before that I worked 25 years for Tecumseh Products Company designing engines for lawnmowers and snowthrowers.

Come to think of it, I don't really know anything about robots...

[apalrd]

I have a new job since I last posted.

I'm currently working at Williams International, working on embedded software and electronics design for commercial turbofan engines. Some of the projects I work on are certified as high as Design Assurance Level (DAL) A, the highest standard in FAA certification. In these projects, the software must be formally verified and tests are audited by the FAA.

[Jay H 237]

I work in the plastic injection molding field for a major company. I assemble robots and custom automation to handle the molded parts. The company bought out an injection molding machine (IMM) supplier and they are part of our operation now and with the material handling portion they added years ago complete turn key work cells can be purchased by customers now. We also are the OEM for robots for other companies, are logos aren't put on and thier's are but they are the same underneath, think Chevy - GMC.


The cool thing is I get to see parts, games, products and stuff months or longer before they are advertised. The weird thing is going into a store and seeing something and be like, hey I remember working on the stuff to build that months ago!

[teslalab2]

I work at a circuit board shop doing wave soldering, and circuit board repair.