What I wish was different
I really want to do CAD modeling but haven’t been able to with Gleason. I worked pretty much exclusively in Excel (though it was looking at drawings and collecting data therefore learning their products) and other Microsoft Office and a small amount of SAP transactions. Since accepting the new position, I’ve done a lot more SAP related things involving changing the routers based on engineering drawing changes so the part can be made as needed; this taught me a lot about machines/work centers and their abilities (good thing, of course). The current co-op has been doing some CAD modeling which was a little saddening to me since everyone knows I want to do that (it’s not likely that I never will though, just not til I’m done training at least). I do hear a lot of drama, more and more since I’ve been hired “officially”, and that the engineering manager is a bit hardass on the engineers...that some of them changed as an employee and person because of the stress it caused them. I hear about other coworkers getting mad who have never been anything but friendly and mostly helpful to me so I’d honestly be curious to see how a female design engineer would be treated (they’re all male, there one other female engineer in my department).
