Rotation Experience
GT Company Knowledge
Acronyms Engineers Pretend to Know
Manufacturing & Operations
Engineering Humor
100

The length of a rotation in the development program.

What is 6 months?

100

The name of the CEO

Who is Magen Buterbaugh?

100

KPI

What is Key Performance Indicator?

100

The Japanese term means "continuous improvement"

What is Kaizen?

100

The software every professor said you’d use daily in industry.

What is MATLAB?

200

The Meeting where rotational engineers present their progress to leadership.

What is a Report Out?

200

The product lines that GT service.

What is Chemraz, Sealing Systems, Seal Connect, Structural & Engineered Components?

200

BOM

What is Bill of Materials?

200

The PPE item you always forget until someone yells your name from across the plant.

What are safety glasses?

200

The CAD command you use most often.

What is undo?

300

The question you get asked most often as a new rotation engineer.

What is “So what do you actually do”?

300

Team who carry out various tests required to validate material lots as well as support other material tests for development or analysis. 

Who is M-Tec (Material Testing, Engineering & Compliance) Group?

300

DMAIC

What is Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control?

300

The inspection method where you check every single part because you don’t trust anything yet.


What is 100% inspection?

300

The class where you learned absolutely nothing but still passed.

What is Thermodynamics II?

400

The moment you realize your rotation is teaching you more than your entire senior year.

What is week two?

400

This is the number of years our company has been around.

What is 160years.

400

SQDICP

What is Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Cost, People?

400

The 5S step that everyone forgets until audit day.

What is sustain?

400

The engineering term for “I guessed.”

What is an approximation?

500

The skill most managers say is more important than technical ability.

What is communication?

500

The company’s mission statement includes this key phrase.

What is "Failure is not an option"?

500

DFMEA

What is Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis?

500

The Japanese term means mistake-proofing.

What is Poka-yoke?

500

The moment you realize your job is 80% Googling and 20% pretending you didn’t Google it.

What is being an engineer?

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