Engineering Co-Op
Cooperative education opportunities are available at KraussMaffei! If you have interest in learning more about these opportunities, or wish to apply, please fill out our application on our website. Here are a couple of the opportunities that we have for students!
Mechanical Engineer Co-Op Duties:
- Take direction from full-time engineer
- Perform designs in AutoCAD Inventor
- Work with Engineers on performing machinery plant layouts and models
- Mechanical structures
- Vendor supplied equipment details
- Become expert in creating rapid prototype models using in-house 3D printers
- Material selection
- Developing printing structure
- Create designs for fixtures and tools to be used in-house during assembly
Electrical Engineer Co-Op Duties:
- Work with Electrical Engineer on creating drawing package for electrical control cabinet
- Use AutoCAD to create design package
- Perform load calculations for machines
- Interface with assembly team to resolves issues and make corrections to drawings for as-built documentation
- Collate drawings and component information for machine manual
Chemical Engineer Co-Op Duties:
- Assist process engineers with customer and R&D trials
- Apply engineering concepts to perform extrusion process calculations and aid in experiment design
- Learn how to configure extrusion processes
- Independent R&D experiment design, execution, and data analysis
- Operate extruders
- Gain knowledge of polymer compounding, sheet extrusion, and pipe extrusion
- Specify new equipment for the Innovation Center