Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc, (TEMA)
Summer Internship/Co-Op 2012

In May of 2012, I experienced an internship/co-op opportunity at Toyota's manufacturing headquarters (TEMA) in Northern Kentucky.  I was assigned to the New Model Quality Assurance team and supported every specialist in different activities required for the successful completion of their projects.  

Our group was responsible for ensuring that the highest standards for safety, performance, aesthetics and efficiency were met by the vehicle models that were scheduled to hit the market in the upcoming year. I supported several on-road tests of new vehicle models were the performance, functionality and drive-ability for each vehicle were critically judged and assessed by experts of different backgrounds.  As an intern, I worked on the preparation involved prior to each test, helped coordinate the activities between each party,  and learned the methodology involved for vehicle item scoring.  Another part of my  responsibilities involved conducting in-house fatigue failure analyses & quality inspection lab tests on vehicle components as well as full scale pre-production vehicles. This particular type of testing was necessary in order to understand how a costumer will utilize each product and what to expect of that continuous use. The tests operations often involved organizing dozens of specialists volunteering to give their behavioral input for new components and translating the recorded inputs as data.