Denton ISD Our Impact In Your Community Magazine Summer 2017 | Page 25

DISD: You recently completed an internship with
TDIndustries.  Tell us more about that.    
for a consultant.  I worked with him as a consultant for
his engineering projects.  He had the idea in his head and
I helped him design it on paper.  I mediated between him
and his interns who were working to create the model.  His
interns were having trouble to figure out what he wanted,
so I helped.
MM: My engineering teacher, Mr. Thomas Babb, at the ATC,
submitted some of our names for the internship.  We gave a
presentation for a class project we were working on and after
watching the presentation and visiting with Justin Claybrook
DISD: Are there any teachers who
and others from TDIndustries, they
“ There, I learned that  you can design
have helped you along the way or
offered me the internship.  We
inspired you?
worked closely with the Denton
anything you want from the computer
ISD Operations Department, and
design of a part to actually creating it by
MM: Mr. Babb, head of the
gave quarterly presentations on our
using a 3-D printer, CNC machines and a
engineering department at the
energy audits and reports about last
ATC, has been great.  He was my
plasma cutter.  ” - Matthew Merchant
year’s energy use.  The internship
engineering teacher for three
was focused on energy engineering
years for that program and really helped me learn different
and ways to keep the utility costs for buildings down.  Even
skills.  I learned to take advantage of what they offer;
though it may not be the field I’ll eventually work in, I learned
everyone’s offered the same, but you must take advantage
different ways to save money and how giant the costs of
and really learn and want to do more.  Do that and your
utilities are at a high school.  TDIndustries also taught me about
teachers will go the extra mile for you.  
the tools used to keep track of money, bills and the databases
DISD: Any advice for your fellow graduates or younger
they used to help make sure not to overpay or to watch for
students interested in engineering?
water leaks.  For example, if there was a water leak at a school,
MM: Because there are so many different types of fields
it was reflected in the bills by the huge spike in usage.  They
of engineering, go into each field a little bit. Explore
would look at the dashboards to see those spikes and then go
electronics, energy, and mechanical/machinery.   What
to the school to fix it.  
I most enjoy is working with machines and designing
DISD:  Have you done any other engineering-related work
parts and manufacturing - that’s how I chose mechanical
since then?  
engineering.   
MM: I recently did some engineering consultant work.  Mr. Babb
talked to our class about someone he knew that was looking
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