Hi everyone, I just finished a six-month internship at a company called Consolidated Metco. This company manufactures semi-truck and other transportation parts. My team collects data from the manufacturing processes to make data-driven decisions that make it more efficient. I learned a lot during this internship, and I found it to be quite enjoyable. They have expressed interest in hiring me when I graduate, and I think continuing to work with them would be a great opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
SQL and relational databases <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The team I was on was data focused, so one of my goals was to expand my SQL and relational database knowledge. I can firmly say that I was successful id doing that. I barely knew any SQL before starting this internship, and now I feel comfortable with it. Data is such an important part of the world today, so knowing about how to interact with it is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Algorithm development <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This was not something I expected to do when I began the internship, but I am glad I was able to work on it. It ended up being one of the more challenging computer science topics I have ever worked on. I found that real life data is unpredictable, so learning how to manage that was necessary. I plan on furthering my knowledge in this subject by learning more about design patterns and other best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Web development<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The front-end web development I did was probably the most fun project I worked on. This was the first time I used Angular for a development framework, and I plan to use it more in the future. Although the learning curve was more steep than Hi everyone, I just finished a six-month internship at a company called Consolidated Metco. This company manufactures semi-truck and other transportation parts. My team collects data from the manufacturing processes to make data-driven decisions that make it more efficient. I learned a lot during this internship, and I found it to be quite enjoyable. They… Continue reading Culmination of Second MECOP Internship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
other similar tools, I found it to be easier to use once I understood it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"