This summer, COSE’s Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department has sent two SCSU students, Paige Ehalt and  Pratiksh Patel, to India. The students are completing an internship at JK Cement Company. The internships were arranged through the JKLU-SCSU Internship Exchange program, a partnership between SCSU and a university in India. The partnership creates internship abroad opportunities for students from both institutions. We are tracking the students’ progress here on the COSE International Programs blog. Check back periodically to hear more about their experiences abroad.

Prat’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 2:

Dr. Baliga, Paige, and Prat at Pichola Lake with JK Cement engineers.

This was the first full week of our internship at JK Cement Company. This week, we learned about several areas within the cement manufacturing process, including: vertical roller mills, preheaters, cyclones, airsliders, kilns, and the calcination process of cement.  JK Cement is teaching us about how all the individual sections of the cement plant operate.  This week, our focus was primarily on the VRM and the kiln.  In our first few days on site, we also learned about the cement crusher and stacker reclaimer.  We have also learned a lot about the fundamentals of the mechanical workings of things like gearboxes, hydraulic cylinders, couplings, pumps, and more.

JK Cement also took us on a couple of excursions. For example, we went to Udaipur and visited the Picholi Lake.  All of the engineers here are very friendly and I have even had the chance to visit with some of them socially.