Engineering Internship · Flagship
MEP design work.
I worked at an MEP engineering firm, turning rough markups from job sites into finished, code-compliant construction drawings — the documents contractors actually build a building's mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems from.
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 worked on 24 projects, ranging from a 30,000 sq ft commercial office building to multimillion-dollar homes and dental offices.
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.
- Audited drawings against code and permitting requirements.
What I delivered
- Permit-ready drawing sets across 24 MEP projects.
- Cut sheets and equipment schedules for construction document sets.
- A full HVAC system design with load calculations for a 30,000 sq ft office building.
- Compliant, buildable deliverables ready for review and permitting.
By the numbers
24
MEP projects drafted and coordinated in AutoCAD
30,000
sq ft office building — full HVAC design with load calcs in Carrier HAP
3 months
Summer 2026 internship, on live permitted projects
A closer look
Designing an HVAC system in Carrier HAP
The project I'm most proud of was designing a complete HVAC system for a 30,000 sq ft commercial office building. I ran the load calculations in Carrier HAP (Hourly Analysis Program) to figure out how much heating and cooling the 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.
Drawing sample
Example of the work
Sample available on request
The drawings I worked on belong to the firm and its clients, so I'm not publishing project documents here. A sanitized drawing example is being cleared with my employer and will be added once approved — or I can walk through a redacted example directly in a conversation.
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.