Engine Performance Methods Intern

Job Description

Job Description

As an Engine Performance Methods Intern, you will be part of the Engine Modeling Technologies organization, providing support to Commercial engine architectures and Aeroderivative products at GE Aerospace. You’ll require thermodynamics knowledge and programming skills to help the development of aerothermal modeling and simulations for engine performance evaluation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the development of dynamic aerothermal system models that behave throughout the operational envelope.
• Help the resolution of model issues through understanding both the physical system and its numerical representation.
• Help the Methods discipline on model maintenance to assure models’ readiness to serve.
• Package models for delivery to customers and integration into rigs or simulators.
• Participate in design reviews of modeling approach, functionality, and validity.
• Communicate status, business issues and significant developments.
• Work together with development and functional team, from different engineering teams, using Agile methodologies as an effective collaboration way to ensure deliveries on time and with the expected quality.

Required qualifications

• Students currently in an Engineering bachelor (Computer Sciences, Electronic, Mechanical, Aeronautical, Mechatronics or equivalent) with no more than two years to graduate
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented programming or experience with C, C++, R, python or similar computational languages
• Experience with thermodynamics and fluid dynamics
• Effective written and oral English communication skills

Desired qualifications

• Availability for a one-year project
• Analytical approach for problem solving
• Leadership experience inside and/or outside the classroom. Extra initiatives/engagements in student organizations are a plus
• Knowledge on aircraft engines performance and operational parameters

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