Many STEM students get involved in internships in their college career. One STEM student, Teresa McKinney, has won the STEM Intern of this year. The STEM Intern of the year award has into a student that’s got shown an exceptional of labor, shows initiative, has completed presentations, and has had a positive change for the company with whom they’ve already worked.
Teresa McKinney, a senior Mechanical Engineering student, has accomplished a good deal in their college career. While she has held several internships, among her most memorable ones was her internship at Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. During her internship at Nucor she gained additional than only the action as being an engineer, she gained family members. For Teresa, her Nucor internship was life changing.
“I learned ways to be considered a real engineer, handled projects, and met some amazing people at the mill,” Teresa says. “[They] ‘adopted’ me and guided me in the summer, and that i hope we can remain friends well within the future.”
Teresa took a summer aloof from interning next year, after her sophomore year of faculty, to analyze abroad. While she could have not been interning, she still learned and experienced far more than the average student. Even if she spent most of her summer semester for a ship traveling the med and visiting countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece while using Semester at Sea program, she might balance classes at each port they visited. Last year, Teresa also spent every week in the Gerace Research Center in the Bahamas. There, she explored caves, ruins, together with other natural phenomena.
The North Jackson native often jokes that her father need to have really wanted sons, but got a daughter first. While using the strong work ethic and keenness for a way things work her father instilled while concentrating on projects together, Teresa chose Mechanical Engineering on her future. After applying and being accepted into several colleges, Teresa felt that YSU and YSU STEM were where she’d feel quite in the home.
“YSU features a fantastic engineering program,” Teresa says. “The school is sufficiently little that professors know [your] name, but big enough we’ve having access to equipment that larger schools use.”
Teresa can also be very participating in campus. For several years, she was the Vice President on the STEM Leadership Society, in addition to a Student Government Association STEM Representative. She will be the president of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society along with a an associate Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society. When she is not spending time with one such on-campus activities, she may be seen doing many different activities including camping, intramural volleyball, and drawing.
After graduation, Teresa plans to attend graduate school so she will focus more about sustainable energy or combustion and thermal research. A lot of these programs will assist her to obtain a prosperous career inside renewable power field. Teresa is aware that whichever she does that he will continue to achieve the support of her parents, together with the support from her friends, classmates, and professors that they has exploded so close to throughout her YSU career.
