Clodagh Shine
Hi, I’m Clodagh. I am from Dundalk, Co. Louth. I am going into my final year of PE and Maths in DCU.
I wanted to learn about the working world outside of teaching and to gain new skills and knowledge that I can bring with me into the classroom in the future.
At AMD I worked on the DSV (Design Solution Verification) team learning about their day to day tasks and responsibilities. I attended team meetings weekly and one to one meetings with my mentor and my team leader and representatives from other teams in the company. I worked on a personal project with the guidance of my team which allowed me to develop a series of lessons on digital circuitry, computing and coding. My DSV related project was to write a python script that would open a file and search for errors in each line of text and learn how to use Vivado which allowed me to create digital designs and to run them on a PYNQ board.
I will take back real world experience of electronic engineering in hopes to be able to pass this on to my future students who have an interest in the field. I have also seen and experienced different real world applications of maths which I would have not considered before! I will take back a deeper understanding of engineering and computing and their links to maths to use in the classroom.
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Xilinx makes a type of computer chip which is used by many different companies as part of their systems, such as communications satellites, the NASA ‘Curiosity’ Mars Rover, Twitch and mobile phone networks. What we make can be used to solve many engineering problems, and we hope to give a good basic understanding of that to you as part of your internship.
