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>>ELIZABETH: I’m Elizabeth Mintmire. I’m a senior in Industrial Engineering and I’ll
be graduating this May so right now I’m working on my Capstone.
My main internship was with Hitachi Computer Products and it’s here in Norman and I worked
there for 10 months last year and
I worked on a lot of different projects there but some of the main ones I worked on involved
tooling projects.
One of them was a project where I researched and acquired and implemented a
new tool for manufacturing processes,
and that was a very comprehensive project where I worked from start to finish,
from the researching and
choosing phase to working with the suppliers to try to find a price that we could all agree
on and
then designing the operating procedures and then rolling out an implementation scheme
to where we finally got to see it in use on the floor.
Throughout college I’ve been involved in the OU Wesley Foundation, which is just a
campus ministry group
and I play in the musical group there and it’s just a really great way to make friends
outside of classes, to get perspectives from other areas around campus.
First I would like to expand my options by going to graduate school
and then I’d like to either work, perhaps in industry as I enjoyed working
with my internship with Hitachi
so I’d like to go somewhere further with that and get more advanced skills,
but I’d also be interested in maybe continuing research or working in a
research and development group
either with a company or with maybe an academic institute to design Human Factors design work.
Stick with it. You can. When I first started I wasn’t really sure where it was all heading
and not really sure how to apply it but especially by pursuing
internships and research experiences
there’s a lot that you can, you can learn so much about applying your work if you actually
go out and get some hands-on experience outside of school.