This week’s featured student is Reimi Sato, an industrial engineering major who worked as a co-op student at Shaw Industries in Dalton, Georgia.
In reporting on her rotation, Sato worked in the process improvement department which is responsible for making budgets, cost reduction of processes, improving work procedures, and waste center control. Her responsibilities included updating current systems weekly, managing waste center, and checking raw materials. She also had to justify whether warping was a bottleneck of beam tufting and reorganization of yarn in the warehouse.
The most valuable benefit Sato received was learning how industrial engineering tools are applied in real life situations. It deepened her understanding in work measurement and she also got to learn materials that will be covered in future classes. The experience earned in a co-op adds tremendous benefit on top of what lectures can offer.