Stress and Fatigue Lab Intern

Stress and Fatigue Lab Intern

Requisition ID:

5641

Job Location:

New Holland - Pennsylvania - United States

Category:

Engineering and Technical

Job Type:

Intern or Co Op

Working Mode:

Fully On-Site

About Us

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

From developing products that run on alternative power to productivity-enhancing precision tech, we are delivering solutions that benefit people – and they are possible thanks to people like you. If the opportunity to build your skills as part of a collaborative, global team excites you, you’re in the right place.

Grow a Career. Build a Future!

Be part of this company at the forefront of agriculture and construction, that passionately innovates to drive customer efficiency and success. And we know innovation can’t happen without collaboration. So, everything we do at CNH Industrial is about reaching new heights as one team, always delivering for the good of our customers.

Intern Program Overview: We are committed to building a strong talent pipeline by investing in early career professionals. Our internship and co-op programs provide mentorship, training, hands-on experience, and growth opportunities that empower students to explore their career paths with confidence. Through competitive wages, networking events, social and volunteer activities, professional development workshops, and housing support, we strive to deliver one of the best internship experiences—designed to develop and inspire the talent of tomorrow. Summer interns work full-time (40 hours per week) from May through August. Candidates must be currently enrolled college students actively pursuing a degree to participate in the internship program.

Job Purpose

The Stress & Fatigue Laboratory Intern will support the validation of agricultural equipment and components through laboratory testing, instrumentation, data acquisition, and analysis activities. The intern will work alongside engineers and technicians to help collect data, execute durability and structural validation tests, and communicate results that support product reliability and design improvement initiatives. This position provides hands-on experience with hydraulic test systems, structural testing equipment, and advanced data acquisition technologies utilized in the development of world-class agricultural machinery.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist engineers with setup and execution of structural, durability, and fatigue tests.

• Install and verify instrumentation including strain gauges, load cells, pressure transducers, thermocouples, accelerometers, and displacement sensors.

• Support data collection using laboratory data acquisition systems.

• Analyze test results and prepare technical summaries, charts, and reports.

• Assist with test fixture design, fabrication coordination, and laboratory setup activities.

• Support failure investigations and root cause analysis efforts.

• Maintain accurate test records, daily logs, and documentation.

• Collaborate with design engineering teams to support product validation activities.

• Follow all applicable CNH safety procedures and laboratory operating requirements.

• Travel to the field to collect data.

• Experience Required

Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in:

• Mechanical Engineering

• Agricultural Engineering

• Mechatronics Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Engineering Technology

• Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of stress, strain, fatigue, and durability principles.

• Experience working with sensors and instrumentation.

• Basic knowledge of hydraulics and mechanical systems.

• Experience with data acquisition systems such as Dewesoft, eDAQ, or similar platforms.

• Hands-on fabrication or shop experience.

• Pay Transparency

• $19.57-$31.93 Per Hour

What We Offer

Our Engineering & Technical Team

Explore the exciting and rewarding career opportunities in our engineering and technical departments, where you can grow your skills and experience, advance your career, and meet customer needs with innovative solutions.

Technology Creates New Opportunities to Feed the World

We partner with customers and listen to their needs, using their feedback to innovate technology that utilizes connectivity, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

CNH: A HISTORY OF FIRSTS

We have shaped the history of agriculture with pioneering firsts spanning over three centuries.

BUILD A CAREER DOING MEANINGFUL WORK

SPEECH,MUSIC PLAYING

DESCRIPTION Breaking New Ground: Innovation Sustainability Productivity

TIM ROSZHART: Farmers have a really important job, not just helping to grow the food that feeds all of us but to do it in a way that’s sustainable for us as a people and us as a planet.

DAN ESLINGER: CNH partners with our customers to enable their business to operate. That’s through the use of technology, deployment of capital, dealer and support networks, and everything that’s required for them to operate their business successfully.

TIM ROSZHART: So for those workers that were blessed enough to get into the ag industry into farming, it’s really around how do we amplify or expand the capabilities of what they can get done.

DAN ESLINGER: It’s an exciting time for the tractors and for the farmers as these technologies mature and these designs are put into use and are going to be rolled out to our customers.

TIM ROSZHART: With technology, we’re able to make decisions that care for every square foot of ground. It’s a great way to take interest in connectivity and mobile apps, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, these things that we see in other industries, in automotive, even in the gaming industry, and others and how to– can actually bring those interests and those skills and use it for this great purpose to help feed the world. That’s pretty cool.

DESCRIPTION Text, Innovate with Us, www dot CNH dot com

Strips of metallic red, silver and gray whoosh, Logo, C N H I, Industrial

SPEECH,MUSIC PLAYING

DESCRIPTION Sunrays beaming down over a wheat field.

SPEAKER: The pace of change has always been fast.

DESCRIPTION Tractors plow through a field.

SPEECH CNH and our brands have never stood still.

DESCRIPTION Black-and-white photographs of equipment from days gone by.

SPEECH Our legacy is farming’s progress.

DESCRIPTION Text, 1869, First steam engine tractor. 1892, First gasoline-powered tractor.

SPEECH We have written the history of agriculture for over 180 years,

DESCRIPTION 1904, First all-steel thresher.

SPEECH always innovating for the farmer, our customer,

DESCRIPTION 1917, World’s first mass produced tractor.

SPEECH helping generation after generation get the job done,

DESCRIPTION 1923, Farmall. First all-purpose implement tractor. 1940, First self-tying automatic pick-up baler.

SPEECH an endless dedication that has led to more firsts than any other agriculture company.

DESCRIPTION 1943, First commercial mechanical cotton picker. 1952, Europe’s first self-propelled combine harvester.

SPEECH We revolutionized and kept reinventing for the industry,

DESCRIPTION 1960, First self-propelled windrower.

SPEECH making operations more efficient,

DESCRIPTION 1964, First mower-conditioner.

SPEECH more effective,

DESCRIPTION 1974, World’s first twin rotor combine.

SPEECH more profitable.

DESCRIPTION 1975, First self-propelled grape harvester. 1977, First single rotor combine. 1980, First in-cab automatic sprayer control system.

SPEECH Utilizing precision technology to drive higher yields.

DESCRIPTION 1995, First commercial use of integrated p