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My internship empowered me by making me more knowledgeable about neural networks and their applications. Apart from the technical side, I learned to be a better team-player and communicator. Not only did I develop these skills, I also made new connections and friends on the other side of the world that will hopefully last a lifetime.
Mitsubishi Electric is a huge conglomerate that produces a variety of products from air conditioning units to semiconductors. I worked in one of their research facilities located in Hyogo Prefecture. My project was investigating A.I. applications for manufacturing robots. Specifically I worked with machine learning algorithms to detect anomalies in robot data. I gained experience in industry-level A.I. showing that neural networks could make decent predictions for their unique problems.
This summer was the best adventure I’ve had in my life. Being in a foreign country with a culture and language so different from one’s own, this program challenged me to be more confident in my technical abilities and more responsible in my actions and choices.
Mitsubishi Electric is a large company that manufactures electric products used in factories and in homes. My group focuses on motor manufacturing technology. My project was on the automated winding machine for the magnetic coil inside motors. As an intern, I researched winding condition and derived new equations for issues in wire deformation. I created easily useable programs, reports, and presentations for different calculations in designing a winding machine. Through this internship, I was able to apply the skills I learned at MIT, and impacted the group, and hopefully the company in a positive way.
Using the information I learned from my chemistry and materials classes at MIT, I was able to expand on my base knowledge and be useful.
Working in the resin department, my goal was to produce a resin with a very low viscosity and a relatively high glass transition temperature (the temperature beyond which a plastic will act more like a rubber and less like a glass). Using Bisphenol-A based resins, I explored the effects of a variety of catalysts and solvents on these properties before deciding on one to use for the product. Later on in the internship interest arose in the effects on the electrical properties – such as capacitance and volume resistivity – as well as the lifetime of the resins, and so I worked on improving these properties as well with the help of my advisor.
"MISTI Japan allowed me to develop technical skills while experiencing first-hand the culture and language I had been studying for so long. By living in Japan for 3 months, I was able to gain a new pespective on both work, technology, and culture."
The Advanced Technology R&D Center in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture is one of Mitsubishi Electric’s several research laboratories around the world. The group I worked in was called the smart systems group, and it conducted research related to smart energy system management. My work involved applying machine learning methods to analyze energy data. The results could be applied to improving energy management on the company end and decreasing energy use on the customer side.
“My experience interning at Mitsubishi Electric helped me develop a greater understanding of how I wish to proceed in my studies and ideas on what types of career opportunities I would like to pursue in the future.”
Mitsubishi is a large Japanese company with branches in many different areas such as car manufacturing, finances, and electronics. During my internship, I worked in the Power Conversion Technology Department, exploring different control techniques for DC-DC converters.
My research involved exploring different control techniques for DC-DC converters. A DC-DC converter is a device that has some input voltage and outputs a different voltage. The converter produces a different output voltage by alternatively storing and releasing energy in order to maintain a desired output. A control mechanism for a DC-DC converter regulates the switching between the two states to produce a constant outout voltage. During the course of my research, I coded a circuit simulation and conducted experiments with the goal of verifying the simulations.