Summer Intern - Materials Engineering

Position Responsibilities:

• Support materials design and/or selection to drive issue resolution, performance, and fundamental understanding of material performance
• Assist in the model development and validation of high temperature performance of materials
• Develop computational workflows to enable thermodynamic and kinetic description of high temperature solid/gas reactions
• Assist in materials characterization as necessary
• Develop material cards to contribute to Antora’s material database and support Antora design engineers
• Create models to demonstrate the possible gains offered by a new material or process

Undergraduate or Graduate Preferred Majors:

• Material Science & Engineering
  
• Materials Chemistry
• Physics
• Engineering

Required Expertise:

• Currently working towards an undergraduate degree in a relevant engineering program such as Material Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Experience with physical/chemical analysis techniques
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new concepts and methods, design and execute experiments, as needed

Preferred:

• Currently working towards a MS or PhD degree in a relevant engineering program
• Fundamental knowledge of materials science, physical metallurgy and high temperature ceramics, refactories, and/or carbon composites
• Knowledge of process-structure performance relationships in sintered products and their relevant manufacturing processes
• Thermodynamics and kinetic modeling of moving boundary layers at solid/gas interfaces
• Facility with Python, Matlab, ThermoCalc, HSC Chemistry, Cantera, and/or MOOSE
• Facility with CAD tools such as ANSYS, SolidWorks, StarCCM+
• Exposure to thermal barrier coatings and/or thermal protection systems
• Enjoy challenging conventional wisdom

Hourly Range:  $25.00 USD

Salary Basis:  Hourly

Benefits:  None