My summer intern

At the very moment someone asks me about my summer intern at applied materials, I laugh and say my project wasn't that great as I expected as I expected some research work with industrial flavor. Actually, when I look back thing looks different than while I was doing all those things. It is a different thing that the work given to me was not as I was expecting from the company but given the constraints at the IIT-center that was the choice. Things went bad actually when our lab couldn't get safety clearance. Anyway those are the only things to regret and better to remember the intern for something better that I have knowingly/unknowingly learnt.

I was given a project that involved (rather later involved) some plant-visits, calling to some companies engineers but mostly digging information on internet. The tricky part of all the efforts put there was to document properly whatever the work you have done so that it could last long. Going through 100s of MBs of pdfs apart from web-reading was really a tough job in terms of sustaining the same routine lon-long times. The project took many turns as it progressed depending on not only the instruction and feedback of guide but also on my efforts.

Presenting those data in Mbs in few slides was really the challenging part especially when I had to present it to the guy sitting in US and make them understand, some of them could ask you as many doubts as they can :) In those two months I came across through many companies in India which started from a lab and many more lab-scale process/products waiting for entrepreneur. The interest was grown so much that I started thinking for startups :) As if Indian labs and companies were not enough, I was given a new project of same kind which demanded scanning of world map where the work on a particular kind of refrigeration process is going on.

I was really frustrated with these on net service but the last week of intern was a bit interesting relatively as I had visited the some of wastewater treatment plants in Mumbai based on different technologies including one at IIT Bombay about which I shall write later. I feel it worth to mention that I could visit these plants only after spending hours on phone calling companies and requesting for visits. Mind you! if you want to do any such industrial visits especially when you from an industry you might need to do mockery... ::P

Now, when I see the last three months at institute, I have a different view about my internship. No doubt I learnt a lot during that period but still I would say don't select an intern without knowing anything about its profile no matter how big a company is. Hope, I remember my words next to next year :P

Disclaimer: This is my first blog post which anyway has gone too long to read, so it doesn't matter whether you reached here by reading all those things above or not , I must say you thanks for paying a visit :)
see you later
Signing off
Deepoo Kumar