09 Sep Summer Interns 2024
While Key Tech may be currently under construction as part of our major renovation, we were able to still make room for a new cohort of summer interns. Interning in person offers a unique hands-on experience that just can’t be replicated remotely! Read on to learn more about the adventures of this year’s intern crew.
Patrick Hardison, Electrical Engineering Intern
School: Duke
This summer I worked on:
Schematic and layout of PCBs in Altium, verification testing, component creation, and cable creation.
My favorite assignment was:
Making revision two of a cable testing PCB. It was awesome to see a design I troubleshooted, fixed, and improved be fabricated and used by the company.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
The main office inside a huge, renovated theater.
Baltimore is:
Full of really good restaurants!
Zoe Hong, Industrial Design Intern
School: University of Cincinnati
This summer I worked on:
Benchmarking and concept development for a benchtop spatial imaging device. I also worked on wearability studies, generating renders, and various graphic design tasks.
My favorite assignment was:
Refining concepts based on clients’ feedback. We went through a couple of rounds so I learned to quickly iterate in Photoshop and hone my CAD skills.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
Crab Feast, how friendly everyone and the dogs are, and the importance of having a fun work environment.
Baltimore is:
A city by the water with great seafood and unique events, and most importantly: EKIBEN!!
Jacob Laube, Mechanical Engineering Intern
School: North Carolina State University
This summer I worked on:
Controls testing and prototyping of a pneumatic medical device.
My favorite assignment was:
Fixture modeling in SolidWorks.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
The constant temptation of the office snacks.
Baltimore is:
What you make of it. The world has always been your oyster and Baltimore isn’t any different.
Brendan Peercy, Computer Engineering Intern
School: Duke
This summer I worked on:
Building drivers to let a microcontroller interface with both an RFID module and with a flash memory module, as well as improving and simplifying the structure of a windows application.
My favorite assignment was:
Designing an interface to flash memory, so other parts of the program could treat it as a simple queue without thinking about the low-level implementation.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
All the dogs!
Baltimore is:
Easily walkable (At least around Key Tech) and has the highest number of ice cream places per capita that I’ve ever seen (>1.5 ice cream shops in Federal Hill per 10k people if you were curious).
Fletch Rydell, Computer Engineering Intern
School: Duke
This summer I worked on:
Writing drivers for a device to communicate with various pieces of hardware, in particular, to connect to an iPad app over Bluetooth. I also implemented and tested various features for the associated app.
My favorite assignment was:
Implementing Bluetooth functionality in both the device and app. I enjoyed having the freedom to design many aspects of both the communication protocol and the interface exposed to the rest of the app and device. It was very rewarding to integrate with the rest of the system and see my code power an essential function of a complex device.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
The helpful, knowledgeable, and insightful people I got to work with, even with office construction making it hard to meet everyone in person.
Baltimore is:
Good, but hotter than I expected!
Reilly Schaffer, Electrical Engineering Intern
School: Penn State
This summer I worked on:
Testing and troubleshoots PCBAs. I got to work with battery management circuitry, regulators, communication channels, and PCBA design. My tests had me utilizing oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and digital multimeters.
My favorite assignment was:
Working with a fellow intern to troubleshoot and implement a solution for an issue we discovered.
Something I will remember about Key Tech:
The friendly people!
Baltimore is:
Quiet.
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