{"id":199,"date":"2012-06-18T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/littlegiants-bigresults\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:32:54","slug":"the-perfect-working-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/2012\/06\/18\/the-perfect-working-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Amerling ’14: The Perfect Working Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Amerling ’14<\/em> – I am working at Mercury Marine, the worlds #1 producer of Inboard and Outboard marine engines, and absolutely love it. I am currently working in the PD&E (Product Development and Engineering) department as well as working on the water at our testing facility. At my desk, I have been working on improving safety within the department and the company as a whole. For starters, I got to paint all the yellow poles in the plant with a fresh coat of safety yellow, not the most exciting, but these jobs must be done. I am also going through the safety orientation used for all new hires, analyzing it, and making corrections when necessary. In the future I am going to be doing some product testing, taking parts off the production line, testing for a particular color, in order to assure the quality of product being produced is consistent.<\/p>\n

When I work at the testing facility my day is never the same. As the only intern there, (a plant consisting of about 25 engineers, 15 technicians and 1 me!), I have been tasked with doing everything from fabricating testing mounts for salt water testing to shoveling away the dead fish that wash up on the boat landing. No matter what, everyday is interesting, and I get the beautiful sunshine on my back. I am also learning some important skills, like how to weld, use a butane torch, and other really cool things. It\u2019s the perfect combination of desk work and working with my hands, it makes time fly by.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve grown up around Mercury Marine (it\u2019s in my hometown) so being able to work here for the summers in the Engineering Department is an opportunity I am too lucky to get. Also, fingers crossed, I am hopefully going to get to use my physics background and do some Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) testing on the water, this means I get to be out on the water all day. Getting to test boat engines is a once in a lifetime opportunity, here in Wisconsin, life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Amerling ’14 – I am working at Mercury Marine, the worlds #1 producer of Inboard and Outboard marine engines, and absolutely love it. I am currently working in the PD&E (Product […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internships"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/plastics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}