Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. - Japan

Work with one of the top automakers in the world

Location

Yokohama

Host Type

Industry

The Nissan Motor Company Ltd. is a Japanese multinational automobile company established in 1933 with its headquarter at Nishi-Ku, Yokohama, Japan. The company sells its vehicles under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labeled Nismo. In 2013, Nissan was the sixth largest automaker in the world, after Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford. Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the world’s fourth largest automaker,and  Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia and Mexico. Nissan is the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, with global sales of Nissan more than 275,000 all-electric vehicles till December 2016.

Student Story|Andres Badel, ChemE, '17

Andres Badel, ChemE, '17

"Through working abroad with MISTI, I gained a more comfortable familiarity with Japanese that I wouldn’t have gained at MIT or in the US. Because of the limitations of this field, I likely would not have been able to work in fuel cells had I stayed in the US, at least not at a company. This is particularly true at an automotive company in the US."

My project involved working with a polymer electrolyte fuel cell to determine the effects on performance under certain operational conditions. To this effect, I was involved in planning the experimental order, developing data extraction macros on Excel, and analyzing data obtained from trials within the broader scope of the experiment. With the Excel macros, prior knowledge of coding and Google were most helpful. With the analysis and planning, it was primarily based on articles provided before or soon after arriving at Nissan. Some knowledge of electrochemistry from my prior lab experience has been helpful, but for the most part is unrelated to the work I did.

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