Undergraduate Blog / Author: Jinming Thomas Wang

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The Core Technologies for Making a Cover Tape

During the cover tape manufacture process, the company applies glue, hot-melt adhesive, and the antistatic agent on the base tape material, which is made from PE and Polyester film. The semi-finished product would then be placed in a high-temperature environment and slit into tapes with a width of 5.25mm. After the slitting is complete, the…

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What is a Carrier Tape

I would like to share a particular industry that I have researched with the company that I worked for during my summer internship. Carrier Tape is a supplementary product for the electronic packaging industry. The tapes are mainly used as protective packages for electronic components, integrated circuits, and other devices. The tape serves as not…

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Know What You Want to Accomplish

Kowning what you would like to accomplish from your internship is really important for building up your professional resume and gaining technical knowledge in your filed of interest. As a result, setting goals is always the first thing that interns should do before the start of their internships. For me, I decided to work on…

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Get to Know the Company Culture

Getting to know the company’s culture is always the first and often the most difficult thing an intern has to do at work. It is a tremendously important step for the intern to get to know the company’s daily operations, its structures, and the working environment. I would like to share three ways for interns…

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My Reflection after a Short Chat with one of my Colleagues

This summer, I am interning at Soteria Networks, a start-up tech company based in Natick, MA as a business analyst intern. As a mentioned in previous homework, the small office allows me to interact with people from different departments. Last week, I invited David, the chief technician of the company to have lunch together. At…