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 4:

This week is my last here at the cement plant. The entire trip has been a great experience. We visited so many cool places in the State of Rajasthan.

As far as the learning experience goes, the internship has also been great from start to finish. This internship was definitely worth my time and my money; words cannot describe how happy I feel. Now that it is ending, I am very content. The internship and my time in India was invaluable for me. It really bridged the link between my studies and a career in industry.

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 3:

My internship is going great! I have learned so many things related to mechanical engineering.

This internship has exceeded all of my expectations. I never expected to learn so much in such great detail in just one month.

The thing I like best about the internship is the guidance I have received from the senior engineers at JK Cement. The engineers have really taken me under their wing and they train me just like I am their apprentice.

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.

Paige’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 3:

For the next week of our training at JK Lakshmi Cement, we continued to follow the flow of the material through the plant. Since we just finished the vertical roller mill, the next process was “the pyro process”. This process includes the preheater, kiln, and the cooler. The preheater is a series of cyclones and riser ducts that slowly heat the material before reaching the hottest temperature of 1400 degrees centigrade in the kiln.

JK Cement Kiln

During the kiln stage is when the limestone is transformed into clinker. Clinker, which includes a gypsum additive, is the final cement product.

Clinker

The clinker then flows into the cooler, which cools the clinker back down to about 100-150 degrees centigrade. After the pyro process, the clinker goes through the cement mill, which crushes and grinds the lumps of clinker into finer particles. Once the clinker is in a fine powdered form, it is transported to the packing plant, which packs the cement into bags and prepares them for shipment.

JK Cement Packing Plant

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.

Paige’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 2:

We arrived at JK Lakshmi Cement in the evening. First, we settled into the guest house, which is like a mini hotel. The next morning we attended a formal welcome, followed by a tour of the entire cement plant.

Dr. Ben Baliga of SCSU, with Paige Ehalt, Pratiksh Patel, and JK Cement engineers at the JK Cement Company facility

After the first couple of days we began our training, which is set up in phases. Each phase lasts 3 days. The first phase was studying the crusher, stacker, and reclaimer of the cement manufacturing process. The second phase was the vertical roller mill.

For each phase, we are learning the functioning and operation of the equipment. After completing the first two phases, we created a presentation to present to the company.

The next morning, we left for a day trip to Udaipur. We stopped by Pichola Lake and the Celebration Mall.

Celebration Mall

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.

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 1:

Arriving in Jaipur

Amber Fort in Jaipur

Our first week in India has been great.  The two places we have visited that I enjoyed the most were Amber Fort and the Taj Mahal.

Visiting the Chokhi Dhani village with Paige and the JKLU students

The Taj Mahal

We just arrived at the JK Cement plant and the accommodations are fantastic!  We are staying in the company guest house, which is wonderful.  It is very comfortable and the food is amazing.

Everyone I have met at the cement plant is friendly and approachable.  I can tell that they truly care about my learning experience and want me to experience as much as I can at the cement plant.  Their attention is a big motivating factor for me.

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.

Paige’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 1:

After 24 hours of flying and layovers, we finally reached Jaipur. We went directly to JKLU, where there was a formal welcome, a tour of the campus, and a dinner at Chokhi Dhani. Chokhi Dhani is a local attraction that reenacts ethnic village life in Rajasthan. This place was so much fun, I could spend hours exploring all of the activities. Deepika, one of the Indian exchange students, insisted I ride a camel. So I went for it!

Riding a camel with JKLU student Deepika Mehta at Chokhi Dhani

The next morning we set out for our tour of Jaipur. It was a very long and eventful day of site seeing. The thing that stood out the most to me was Amber Fort. It was the architecture and design of the fort that caught my eye. It was my favorite stop on the tour.

Visiting Amber Fort with Pratiksh Patel and JKLU students

The next day we left for Agra, where we stayed the night at a 5 star hotel. In the morning, we headed to the Taj Mahal. This was my favorite stop of the trip so far. I am so excited I got to see one of the 7 Wonders of the World!

Paige in front of the Taj Mahal