Ethicon, Inc.

A Johnson & Johnson Company

Intern Professional

Cornelia, Georgia

June 2017 - August 2017

During the summer of 2017, I was afforded the opportunity to intern with Johnson & Johnson's ETHICON division located in Cornelia, GA. Ethicon in Cornelia is a manufacturing plant that specializes in the production and distribution of wound closure devices such as sutures, needles and surgical tape. As an Intern Professional, I worked alongside Quality Assurance Lab Technicians to prepare raw material samples for incoming testing and to investigate and document nonconformance issues. I was assigned specifically to sutures, the surgical "thread" used to close wounds or incisions after surgery or injury. I spent majority of my days receiving suture fibers from distribution and generating samples that would undergo tensile testing using an Instron machine.

Other days were spent touring the plant to see how inspected fibers that passed the testing phase progressed through treatment, braiding, sterilization and packaging to become the final structure of a suture used in the operating fields.