Rotation Experience
The length of a rotation in the development program.
What is 6 months?
The name of the CEO
Who is Magen Buterbaugh?
KPI
What is Key Performance Indicator?
The Japanese term means "continuous improvement"
What is Kaizen?
The software every professor said you’d use daily in industry.
What is MATLAB?
The Meeting where rotational engineers present their progress to leadership.
What is a Report Out?
The product lines that GT service.
What is Chemraz, Sealing Systems, Seal Connect, Structural & Engineered Components?
BOM
What is Bill of Materials?
The PPE item you always forget until someone yells your name from across the plant.
What are safety glasses?
The CAD command you use most often.
What is undo?
The question you get asked most often as a new rotation engineer.
What is “So what do you actually do”?
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?
DMAIC
What is Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control?
The inspection method where you check every single part because you don’t trust anything yet.
What is 100% inspection?
The class where you learned absolutely nothing but still passed.
What is Thermodynamics II?
The moment you realize your rotation is teaching you more than your entire senior year.
What is week two?
This is the number of years our company has been around.
What is 160years.
SQDICP
What is Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Cost, People?
The 5S step that everyone forgets until audit day.
What is sustain?
The engineering term for “I guessed.”
What is an approximation?
The skill most managers say is more important than technical ability.
What is communication?
The company’s mission statement includes this key phrase.
What is "Failure is not an option"?
DFMEA
What is Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis?
The Japanese term means mistake-proofing.
What is Poka-yoke?
The moment you realize your job is 80% Googling and 20% pretending you didn’t Google it.
What is being an engineer?