First week of work

Hello everyone!

In this entry of the blog we will talk a little bit about our first week of work in our different placements.

👨🏻‍🔧👨🏻‍🔧 Here is Gonçalo and José.
This week was the first one in Gilnahirk Tyres. We were introduced to the team, they have showed how the machines in the workshop work, where are the tools, and what type of work they do.

This week, we have done some activities, like change tyres and oil service. We worked also in classic car, a Mercedes-Benz SL500, it is a very old car, but really cool. The car was running badly, and sometimes it didn't start. The problem was the spark of the spark plus was very low, this is a problem, because, this is a huge V8 and need full spark when starting the engine.

Here are us after the first they of work, we were very tired, so tired the Gonçalo have slept in the bus going home.

Here we are at our first lunch
in the company.

Thursday this mini has arrived to the workshop to do a straight pipe. What a wonderful noise.

👩🏽‍💻 Mafalda Sousa:
Hi! From here is Mafalda!
I’m currently working as an R&D Engineering Assistant on a company called HeartSine, which is well known for inventing the first mobile defibrillator.
HeartSine was founded in 1998 to continue innovative development of advanced lifesaving products for the treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

HeartSine Samaritan AED 350P

During this month I will be working with a engineering team on a test equipment called Standby Current Data Logging.

Standby Current Datallogging

During this week I read protocols related to this project, created a PCB from a schematic drawing using the ORCAD software and researched components that will be integrated into the circuit of this equipment.

PCB schematic drawing

👰🏼 Beatriz Vieira da Silva:
Hello, from here is Beatriz!
Here in Belfast I will work in a company of organization of weddings. The company was born in 2010 and is composed of two friends, Allison and Lynsey.
On the first day, I went to the studio and showed me all the products and I got the papers for the accounting and organized the weddings I've been scheduled for 2018.