The Micron trip was a nice insight on a possible place where our careers might be taking us. We saw the manufacturing of a silicon wafer which is shipped out to other micron facilities to be assembled into the the final products. Our guide showed us part of the developments that have recently occurred. For example, they have a machine that hangs from the ceiling which picks up boxes of 25 wafers and delivers them around the site to have them processed. Before, there used to be workers picking up the boxes and moving them around. This would be a typical problem that an engineer would solve to boost the manufacturing process. It would’ve been nice to walk around the “clean room,” to see all the machines that were further back. The tour was interesting, but could’ve been better had we gotten more out of how they are made, rather than presenting a power point presentation showing off to us how successful the company is. We didn’t recieve any information on what jobs or internships there are, but he did tell us they work twelve-hour shifts. We didn’t see many workers in the facility. The few workers we saw seemed to be sitting around, since the machines do all the work. It would be a boring job and I would definately not want to work there.
