Transcript Matt Viss
BOEING LIMITED Boeing Puget Sound Second Internship, 2008 Matt Viss September 10, 2008 Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Company History Boeing Internship, 2008 • Acquisitions: • • • • • Douglas Aircraft Co. McDonnell Aircraft Corp. North American Aviation Hughes Aircraft Different Branches: • BCA – Boeing Commercial Airplanes • IDS – Defense products – Apache helicopter • Others like EOT (IT is part of), SSG, Capital… Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Company History, cont. Boeing Internship, 2008 • Company Milestones • • • • • • • • • • 1917: First flight, B&W July 27, 1929: First passenger plane flight 1930: First monoplane built 1940: 80 B-17 flying fortress ordered 1944: B-29 1951: first fighter jet (F-86 Sabre) delivered 1957: first flight, 707 (first large passenger jet) 1969: first flight, 747 (largest plane in the world at the time) 1994: First flight, 777 (first 100% digitally designed Boeing plane) Current: over 900 orders for 787 (largely carbon fibre) Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Hours, Wages, Benefits Boeing Internship, 2008 • Wage • • • • • • xx.xx / hour Overtime OK if approved Base 40 hours/week Salaried (sort of) Vacation, Holidays, Sick days Benefits • • • • Awesome Learning Together Program Medical, dental, vision Life, disability Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Reporting Structure Boeing Internship, 2008 • Manager: Abdi EmamBakhsh • Mentors: Justin Seimears, Max Jensen • A bunch of levels above that I never had any contact with. Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Departments Boeing Internship, 2008 • ESC Scripting MPD • Work overlap between groups • • Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Projects Boeing Internship, 2008 • XSL Stylesheet • ESC script conversions • Work Instruction Authoring GUI Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. XSL Stylesheet Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • • • • Enterprise Standard Format into something human readable Quick, early project Possibility of further stylesheet needs Later used to verify larger program Skills: Intro to the group, XSLT, XML ROI: • • Mine: Med-High; learned XML/XSLT Boeing: Med; stylesheet proved useful. Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. ESC Script Conversions Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • • • Convert scripts to work with ESC PTS ~100 scripts in total Worked with scripting team Skills: Vbscript, Process Engineer (API), general engineering practices. ROI: • • Mine: High; learned PE and the PE API as well as vbscript Boeing: High, met ESC milestones (Block Points). Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Work Instruction Authoring GUI Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • • • • • Main Project Old system involved attaching pdf documents to IP's and reading excel sheets. Launched GUI while in PE to interface with database Information is read from a dynamic library Easy to update, fits new business practice Skills: Interfacing with a database through PE API, VBA, General ME practices ROI: • • Mine: High; learned a lot about IP authoring, PE API and VBA Boeing: High, now has a dynamic process which is easy to update Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Overall Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • • • Learned a lot about Engineering Worked with a great group of people Working with a wide range of customers Meeting requirements/deadlines Documentation Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Useful Classes Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • Any general programming classes Software Engineering Technical Writing (Documentation) Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Internship Comparison Boeing Internship, 2008 • • • • • • • Credence vs Boeing: Boeing is more concerned with proprietary information and privacy Heavy open source at Credence vs Highly proprietary at Boeing Tons of intern events at Boeing Boeing has excellent benefits Both groups were fairly relaxed (dress code, flexible hours) Provided me with great contrast, both were great experiences Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2008 Boeing. All rights reserved.