Why does DPS use a Carbon Pre-Preg?

[krp8128]

There are only a few manufacturers of carbon fiber, and pre-preg carbon fiber in the world. The process isn't something a company can just pick up. There is a world-wide shortage in carbon fiber because most of is bought up by the aerospace industry (mainly Boeing and Airbus), that's why its so expensive. 10 years ago carbon fiber was not as expensive as it is now, thats just when I was getting into composites, now it sucks But of course now I work for one of the aforementioned aerospace companies so I can't exactly complain

Want to hook me up with a job?

[twizzstyle]

Want to hook me up with a job?

Ha, I wish it worked that way. Have to apply online, it's kind of a crappy system.

[krp8128]

^^^^unfortunately, I am very familiar with their system....

[twizzstyle]

^^^^unfortunately, I am very familiar with their system....

What area are you looking to get into? (now that we've completely de-railed this thread...). I work in flight test.

[Damon]

The composites facility is hiring a ton (almost interned there this summer - turned it down). Put composites all over your resume and you should at least get through to the 2nd round...

[krp8128]

The composites facility is hiring a ton (almost interned there this summer - turned it down). Put composites all over your resume and you should at least get through to the 2nd round...

You guys have any more insight into this? My automated search bugger thingymajig must have stopped working, i haven't seen squat from Boeing (that is who we are talking about, right?) in a few months...

Composites is all over my resume. I've got the custom ski co as my current employment, plus a few other projects and courses.

Twizzstyle,

I focused somewhat heavily on composites and vibrations my last 2 quarters, good for ski building and planes. I'd like to get into the structures area, maybe payloads. How's flight test from an ME perspective?


I'll be honest, i kind of gave up on Boeing. I stood in too many lines at our (RIT) career fair with job req. #s in hand, only to make it to the head of the line to get turned away (by RIT grads currently working at Boeing) for one reason or another. The few times I made it through to speak with a rep, the had no additional info on the positions I was interested in, and never got back to me with a different contact as promised, even after several e-mails.

[Damon]

Are you looking over the entire US? I have yet to see any postings that explicitly state composites, but anything that mentions working on the 787, military/space, or research & development and you're pretty much guaranteed to be working with composites.

Specific locations to search off the top of my head (and I'm sure Sean knows more): Everett, Tukwila/S. Seattle, St. Louis, Frederickson, and whatever city they just started building a plant for down in the Carolinas.

We've got a bit of an advantage because graduates from our schools are sought after pretty vigorously by Boeing, being right in their backyard and all.

Also, when I mentioned ski building in my interview(and subsequent discussions) I kind of got laughed at. You gotta have some big projects with big groups to get any kind of notice from these guys.

Good luck!

[Damon]

Oh and to stay on topic, DPS using titanal as I beam type reinforcement is a good idea, but poor material choice........

[MontuckyMadman]

Oh and to stay on topic, DPS using titanal as I beam type reinforcement is a good idea, but poor material choice........

Isn't about vibration damping not reinforcement?

better material would be ......?

[krp8128]

Are you looking over the entire US? I have yet to see any postings that explicitly state composites, but anything that mentions working on the 787, military/space, or research & development and you're pretty much guaranteed to be working with composites.

Specific locations to search off the top of my head (and I'm sure Sean knows more): Everett, Tukwila/S. Seattle, St. Louis, Frederickson, and whatever city they just started building a plant for down in the Carolinas.

We've got a bit of an advantage because graduates from our schools are sought after pretty vigorously by Boeing, being right in their backyard and all.

Also, when I mentioned ski building in my interview(and subsequent discussions) I kind of got laughed at. You gotta have some big projects with big groups to get any kind of notice from these guys.

Good luck!

Just did a search, with the only restrictions being "US" and "Entry level". Not a whole lot pops up...

About the only big composites project with a big group I had the opportunity to be a part of would have been formula SAE. Never got involved with those guys though, but they had a lot of composite failures and dealing with their hierarchy just wasn't my thing.

[Alex13]

From an ME perspective, Formula SAE is good for those who have zero real work experience and zero hands on experience with racing/composites/cars etc. For those of us who have both, it's hard to justify. At my uni particularly, as nobody seems to have any idea what they are doing (and we were 06/07 US, Euro and Australian champions).

Back on topic - my uni recently came into ~$75k worth of prepreg from Boeing for nothing. I could easily get my hands on a fair bit of it, but I decided not to because of the temps needed for curing. If you do go down this track with a pneumatic press, keep in mind the temp rating of your fire hose, you'll need very good insulation to both cure the prepreg and stop your hose from melting down. Surprisingly, most fire hose is only rated to around 60C (140F).

[Damon]

krp8128,

Just as an example, there are at least 2, possibly 3 positions of interest in S.C.
http://boeing.com/careers/featuredjobs/ ... l#listings

[jvangelder]

Are you looking to get into aerospace or just manufacturing composit materials such as carbon, kevlar etc

-Jacob

[krp8128]

Are you looking to get into aerospace or just manufacturing composit materials such as carbon, kevlar etc

-Jacob

Either or. I'm just slightly beyond entry level at this point, so I am not being too picky with what I apply to.

[jvangelder]

Albany Engineered Composites in good ol NH is expanding like crazy, Last i knew, a relative's department was looking for 40 people alone.


http://ww3.albint.com/about/Pages/careers.aspx

I'm not sure how up to date or accurate the site is being headquarters isn't in nh, however to my knowledge the Rochester nh location is the one expanding currently.

-Jacob