I just started a new internship at Goodrich. Yes and no. They used to make tires, but they sold that part of the company. I am a manufacturing engineer intern for the evacuation systems. This part of the company designs and manufactures the inflatable slides and rafts for almost every major airplane in service.

It is a really good company and I enjoy working there. My first couple of days I didn't do much, but now I've been helping out with some projects on the production floor. My first project was to fix a twisted slide/raft. It made me feel like a real engineer; taking measurements, making calculations, and what not. I don't do any of the cutting, just the calcs. My supervisor inspected my work after I left that day and said I had put the marks on the wrong side of the slide. When I told him my reasoning, he agreed with me and had another engineer triple check it and I was right.