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Seagate recently offered local engineering undergraduates doing their internship at the Company the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the university to the fast-paced world of the hard disc drive industry. The Company added a “real world” element to the Industrial Attachment (IA) programme at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) by organising an Internship Project Competition for its engineering interns this year.
“I am very pleased to see such excellent work from these young students. Seagate has built up a strong engineering base in Singapore in the last 17 years, and this has contributed significantly to Seagate’s leadership position in the disc drive industry. In providing this opportunity for the interns to apply what they have learned, we believe we are making a significant contribution to the future of Seagate and Singapore in helping to develop some of the world’s most highly skilled and creative engineers,” said Chee Teck Huei, Seagate’s vice president of Engineering, Asia Pacific Disc Drive Operation.
All 69 engineering interns at Seagate’s various facilities in Singapore participated in the competition, submitting a total of 46 projects for consideration. Following a series of preliminary rounds, five projects were selected for the final round on June 23 with a panel of judges comprising seven university lecturers and 11 Seagate managers. The assessment was based on a 10-minute presentation of their project and their responses to the judges’ questions.
The First Place winner was Wilson Oh (School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, NTU) from the Customer Service Operations (CSO). His projects: “Managing Variables: A Leap Towards Lean Manufacturing” made it possible for CSO to reduce the excess work-in-progress units of disc drives from 81 to 22 percent from February to May 1999. This meant the customers were able to get their repaired drives much faster.
“Of
course, I’m happy to win the $500 cash prize, but what I’ve gained from
this whole experience is priceless. My six months here at Seagate
have been very enriching, and the fact that my project has been implemented
in Seagate and has made a difference really makes me happy,” said Wilson
Oh.
“The
Office of Professional Attachments, NTU, is pleased that Seagate has taken
the initiative to launch what we believe is an industry’s first IA project
competition. This provides an excellent platform for IA students
to demonstrate their efforts in applying what they have learned in the
university to the industrial needs of a major multi-national corporation.
It also fosters team building, work culture adaptation, human relationships,
understanding, and professionalism in carrying out tasks in these students.
Our congratulations to Seagate for endorsing IA as the best way to learn
for students,” said Ng Boon Hwang, Director of Office of Professional Attachments,
NTU.
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Second Place winner
(S$400)
Ang
Kwong Hun from Seagate’s Recording Media Operations (Electrical & Electronic
Engineering, NTU)
“Staff
Training Application System”
Third Place winner
(S$300)
Alfian
Shariffudin, O Wee Hian (Mechanical & Production Engineering, NUS)
and
Juan
Hernandez (Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Tecnologico Yde Estudios Superiores
De Monterrey)from Seagate’s Disc Drive Operations
“U4
E-Block Scrap Reduction”
Fourth Place winner
(S$150)
Sim
Puay Nee and Bryan Tan from Seagate’s R&D (Mechanical & Production
Engineering, NTU)
“Study
of actuators in hard disc drives”
Fifth Place winner
(S$150)
Lau
Tong Hing from Seagate’s Recording Media Operations (Electrical & Electronic
Engineering, NTU)
“Cambrian
defect plot”
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