Engineering Internship · Flagship
MEP design & analysis.
I worked at an MEP engineering firm, turning rough markups and field conditions into finished, code-compliant construction drawings — plus running the engineering analysis behind them, from thermal load calculations to structural load-path calculations for mechanical piping systems.
The role
Project Engineering Intern, Dynamic Engineered Systems
MEP stands for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing — the systems that make a building work: heating and cooling, power, water, and ventilation. Before a contractor can build them, an engineer has to design them and document them as permit drawings a city will approve and a crew can follow.
My job sat at the center of that. Engineers handed me markups, field conditions, and client requirements, and I turned them into buildable AutoCAD drawings, equipment selections, and schedules across the firm's active projects. Over the internship I contributed to 29 permitted projects spanning roughly 85,000 sq ft — offices, industrial and warehouse buildings, retail and restaurant spaces, religious and assembly buildings, and high-value residential homes — and progressed from learning basic drawing setup to producing about 90% of a finished project drawing set independently before engineer review.
The inputs
- Engineer markups and redlines that needed to become clean drawings.
- Field conditions and existing-building constraints.
- Client needs and code / permitting requirements.
What I did
- Executed drafting and design in AutoCAD, translating markups and field conditions into buildable permit drawings.
- Selected and sized mechanical equipment for each project.
- Built Excel calculation tools to size systems by thermal and power load.
- Performed a structural load-distribution calculation for a high-capacity piping system, including hanger reactions and load paths through supporting framing.
What I delivered
- Permit-ready drawing sets across 29 MEP projects.
- Cut sheets and equipment schedules for construction document sets.
- Eight full HVAC system designs with load calculations, built from scratch in Carrier HAP.
- A structural piping-support calculation package reviewed and approved by a licensed engineer.
By the numbers
29
MEP projects drafted and coordinated in AutoCAD
85,000
sq ft of total project scope — offices, industrial, retail, religious, and residential buildings
8
full HVAC systems modeled from scratch in Carrier HAP
A closer look
Modeling HVAC systems in Carrier HAP
Across the internship I built eight complete HVAC models from scratch in Carrier HAP (Hourly Analysis Program) — the one I'm most proud of served a 30,000 sq ft commercial office building. I ran the load calculations to figure out how much heating and cooling each building actually needed, sized the equipment to match, and produced the drawings and schedules that carried that design into the construction documents. To speed up the repetitive sizing work, I also built Excel tools that sized systems by thermal and power load.
Structural load calculation for a steam piping system
Not all of the analysis was thermal. For one project I performed a load-distribution and support calculation for a large-diameter cast-iron steam piping system serving a high-capacity heating plant. The work meant tracing pipe, equipment, and valve loads through a chain of hangers and structural framing — including loads transferred between intersecting joists and the sister-joist and support requirements the proposed piping arrangement demanded. The calculation package was reviewed and approved by a licensed engineer.
Contact
Looking for engineering internship and project opportunities.
Open to design, MEP, process, manufacturing, and reliability roles — and to project work. The fastest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.