Regent Actuation Engineering Intern at REGENT to build test setups and evaluate actuators and drives for Seaglider vehicles. The role involves hands-on hardware work and data-driven assessment to inform component selection.
Responsibilities
REGENT's Viceroy and Squire Seagliders rely on actuators and drive systems that have to perform flawlessly in a demanding, real-world environment, and getting them there starts in the lab. As an Actuation Engineering Intern, you'll work alongside our actuation engineering team to build test setups, run evaluations, and dig into vendor documentation to assess how different actuators and drives stack up against each other. You'll spend real time with real hardware, installing actuators on test stands, building jigs, and generating the data that directly informs which components earn a place on our Seaglider product line.
This role sits within our Electrical Systems team, part of Engineering & Technology, where hands-on rigor and clear-eyed evaluation matter as much as clever design. You'll be given increasing independence as the term goes on, moving from guided lab work to running your own experiments and assembling findings into a presentation that will genuinely shape the actuation approach for Viceroy and Squire. If you've got your engineering fundamentals down and are looking for a chance to apply them to real test hardware on a team that's reinventing coastal transportation, you'll feel right at home here.
Build Real Test Setups: You'll construct test stands and jigs in the actuation lab, installing actuators and drives and getting hands-on with the hardware that powers our Seagliders.
Evaluate Actuators and Drives: You'll run performance evaluations on actuators and drive systems, comparing them against similar models to understand tradeoffs and capabilities.
Dig Into Vendor Documentation: You'll interpret datasheets and manuals and work directly with vendors to understand product specifications and communication requirements.
Talk to the Hardware: You'll use programming tools like Python to communicate with actuators and drives, pulling data and verifying behavior firsthand.
Support Qualification Work: You'll help qualify actuators and drives for service on Viceroy and Squire, contributing evidence-based assessments that inform real engineering decisions.
Work With Assemblies and CAD: You'll navigate CAD models and help arrange actuation equipment within assemblies as part of your evaluation work.
Present Your Findings: You'll compile the results of your assessments into a presentation for the mechanical and electrical teams, directly shaping the actuation approach used across our product line.
What You'll Bring
Engineering Fundamentals in Place: You're a rising senior or grad student in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, mechatronics engineering, or a related field, with the core fundamentals already solid.
Comfort With Hand Tools: You're mechanically inclined and comfortable working with hand tools, building jigs, and handling hardware constantly.
Qualification
Engineering fundamentalsAbility to work with real hardware
