Personal Narrative: My Job Shadowing At Dte Energy

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My major of choice is in the field of engineering, so I decided to job shadow at DTE Energy. I figured that they deal with just the electrical side of engineering but after my experience I knew more about what they did there to the point were could happily be employed there. I met a man named Ryan Randazzo who is the manager of the facility. He took me under his wing and through his daily routine of how he operates throughout his day. They always start the morning off with a roll-call. This involves DTE districts from all over Michigan and they communicate through a polycom conference phone at a certain time during the day. Each districts chimes in on any safety problems, functionality of equipment, and statistical data. Their call lasts …show more content…

Their isn't a power outage or an equipment malfunction that they don't know about and don't already have the solution to. Their computers are anciently odd and old but it holds lots of files and programs that they use on a daily basis to manage the electrical power in the city. I talked to another guy about what he does on the job. He told me that he is assigned projects by the city to improve the efficiency of energy and enhancing older models and making them anew. I learned that a wind turbine is made up of three major pieces. It is built from the ground up is carried by a crane and is stacked on top of each other. There is a ladder on the inside of the turbine that goes all the way up to the top, which is about 300 feet. The team member that I was talking to told me that he took a selfie from that high and showed me the picture. Later that day, Mr. Randazzo took me to a electrical-generating power plant where he gave me the proper safety equipment to walk around in. As we took a tour around the plant, we talked about the different parts of the machine and how their functions impact the machine as a whole. My day ended with a brain full of info and an experience that I will never forget. DTE Energy is a job that I am interested in and I might possibly work there in the near

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