Engineering Internship Position

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ISEC wishes to fill immediately the position of intern in assisting a reference conceptual design of a 20 ton climber for the space elevator. The successful candidate will be a 2nd or 3rd year college student in mechanical engineering or closely related engineering field and will work with professional engineers on the design.

Duties: literature searches for information about materials and products relevant to the tether and climber design, web searches for STEP files of components for insertion into the CAD model of the climber and hand calculations to size drive train components for sub-systems of the climber such as the wheel-pinch mechanism.

Qualifications: Some familiarity with motors, gearboxes, shaft couplings and other similar mechanical components is requested. Knowledge of constructing and using free body diagrams and Newton's laws of motion to size components is requested. CAD familiarity with Autodesk Inventor is preferred, but SolidWorks is also acceptable. Knowledge of the finite element method, especially as implemented in Inventor, would be very helpful. Some knowledge of materials, especially aluminum and carbon composites, is requested. Fluency in English is required.

Terms: Meetings will be conducted over Zoom or Teams. No travel is assumed in this work. A $1000 US stipend will be paid at the completion of the work, which is expected to take about four months. To apply, please fill out the form below.