Transcript Matt Viss

BOEING
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Boeing Puget Sound
Second Internship, 2008
Matt Viss
September 10, 2008
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Company History
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Acquisitions:
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Douglas Aircraft Co.
McDonnell Aircraft Corp.
North American Aviation
Hughes Aircraft
Different Branches:
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BCA
– Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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IDS
– Defense products
– Apache helicopter
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Others like EOT (IT is part of), SSG, Capital…
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Company History, cont.
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Company Milestones
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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)
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Hours, Wages, Benefits
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Wage
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xx.xx / hour
Overtime OK if approved
Base 40 hours/week
Salaried (sort of)
Vacation, Holidays, Sick days
Benefits
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Awesome
Learning Together Program
Medical, dental, vision
Life, disability
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Reporting Structure
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Manager: Abdi EmamBakhsh
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Mentors: Justin Seimears, Max Jensen
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A bunch of levels above that I never had any contact with.
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Departments
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ESC
Scripting
MPD
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Work overlap between groups
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Projects
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XSL Stylesheet
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ESC script conversions
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Work Instruction Authoring GUI
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XSL Stylesheet
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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:
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Mine: Med-High; learned XML/XSLT
Boeing: Med; stylesheet proved useful.
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ESC Script Conversions
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Convert scripts to work with ESC PTS
~100 scripts in total
Worked with scripting team
Skills: Vbscript, Process Engineer (API), general
engineering practices.
ROI:
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Mine: High; learned PE and the PE API as well as vbscript
Boeing: High, met ESC milestones (Block Points).
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Work Instruction Authoring GUI
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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:
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Mine: High; learned a lot about IP authoring, PE API and VBA
Boeing: High, now has a dynamic process which is easy to
update
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Overall
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Learned a lot about Engineering
Worked with a great group of people
Working with a wide range of customers
Meeting requirements/deadlines
Documentation
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Useful Classes
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Any general programming classes
Software Engineering
Technical Writing (Documentation)
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Internship Comparison
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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
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