My experience

Overview

Drone Solar Panel Image Program NextEra project to improve the accuracy of the object detection model used to identify 9 solar panel failures taken through infrared images. Model improvement significantly reduces the manual identification work done by drone pilots • Used the VoTT object detection software to classify 2,000 additional images of solar panel failures in order to retrain the existing model. Improved model accuracy from 52% to 87%. • Acquired knowledge of how solar panels work and the infrared characteristics of the 9 solar panel failures Spar Cap Model NextEra project to develop a model that predicts spar cap cracks in turbine blades • Required heavy analysis of 700,000+ lines of data in Excel to determine what relationships exist between variables • Result is a predictive maintenance model that will automate work orders and send wind technicians to particular turbines before a possible blade repair becomes a blade replacement. Reduces the available loss revenue (ALR) for the company

I initially applied as a computer engineering major so this position was geared towards that. I believe that if I were an EE major at the time, I would have worked in a more hardware-heavy position. I did not enjoy this position as much because I mostly worked with software.