2025 UTSR Gas Turbine Industrial
Fellowship Program

Solar Turbines, Inc.
Fellowship Opportunity

San Diego, CA

Positions are designed to provide students with challenging projects that play a key role in supporting gas turbine product design and development activities. Under the guidance of a mentor, interns are given:

• A meaningful work experience
• A project assignment to complete
• The opportunity to apply classroom education to real work situations

Positions are available in:

• Combustion
• Materials and Processes
• Heat Transfer
• Aerodynamics
• Additive Design and Manufacturing

Specific areas of focus include:

• Combustion leads the design, development, and support of combustion systems while maximizing performance, reducing emissions, and minimizing costs. Previous projects include testing mixing rig for different development injectors, correlating data with rig and engine data, testing and parametric studies, design test rig hardware and emissions probes for annular rig testing.
• Materials and Processes provides technological solutions to materials and processes concerns in the design, development, manufacturing, and field support. Previous projects include material testing, failure analyses and first article evaluations.
• Heat Transfer considers all relevant heat transfer gas turbine design aspects excluding the combustor. Previous projects include processing validation data to thermally map hot section components, detailed secondary flow analysis, development of 2D and 3D thermal models, lab experimentation, CFD and conjugate heat transfer analysis, and process development. The Heat Transfer group focuses on improving Solar’s product line through new designs, product updates, advanced development, and process improvement.
• Aerodynamics focuses on flowpath geometry and blade definition to maximize power and efficiency. Meanline, streamline, and CFD analysis tools are utilized to optimize compressor and turbine loading and stability.
• Additive Design and Manufacturing utilizes advanced techniques to explore new designs for ease of manufacturing. Includes materials, processes, and techniques for designing and producing additively manufactured components to push the limits of performance.