Support the ESA BIC team in daily business tasks and follow along startups and entrepreneurs on their way to become an independent company. TASKS: • Maintain overview of costumer relationship management database • Fulfill administration work • Update and improve the ESA BIC website

Responsible for evaluating new, innovative sheet metal connection tech- nologies that could potentially be used to improve the performance and quality of Schindler’s elevator car manufacturing. Further, the internship included the support of the R&D department in the daily business. TASKS: • Evaluating new sheet metal connection technologies, screening the market and benchmarking the findings • Establishing a "connection technology" guide book for engineers helping to choose the best technology for each development case • Performing various tests to characterize the sheet metal connection technologies • Performing finite element method (FEM) analysis and establishing fan configuration in the context of car development

As a recovery team leader at ARIS the main task was together with the team to develop, test and integrate a fully functioning recovery system for a hybrid-propellant sounding rocket starting with a pen and paper. TASKS: • Responsible for a safe and reliable separation and recovery of ARIS’s sounding rocket PICCARD • Planning, designing, dimensioning, manufacturing, assembling and testing (small- and large-scale tests) of the system components • Maintaining overview of the mechanical and electrical system units and their subsystems • Maintaining project structure by developing and implementing achievable targets and delegating tasks • Guiding, motivating and advising a team of 7 members through the project • Ensuring proper communication with the project manager, system engineer and other subsystems • Establishing sponsor and support based relations between ARIS and industrial partners