Corinna Draghi
Atlanta Gear Works (AGW) has grown its engineering team with its first Georgia Tech graduate, Corinna Draghi. Draghi comes with two other firsts for the company: she is the first woman engineer and the first with a degree in aerospace engineering.
Draghi's first full-time job after graduation was as a mechanical engineer working with the inventor of the directly driven centrifugal shot-blast wheel. Her responsibilities included 2D and 3D mechanical design and project management of custom-designed heavy industrial shot-blasting machinery used for finishing structural rebar, propane tanks, heavy earth-moving equipment components and other steel and aluminum components requiring a specific finish.
In addition to hands-on experience and knowledge of fabrication and fit-up processes for heavy industrial machinery, Draghi wrote reference and maintenance manuals, cost analyses and multi-million-dollar quotes.
"I learned a lot about hardware and grades of steel and spent a lot of time in steel mills," she said. "All of that is applicable to what we do at AGW."
Draghi's mechanical engineering training started in childhood. Her father operated a machine shop in the basement of the family home, and also did gearbox repair.
"I was impressed with Corinna's mix of hands-on experience and mechanical design/CAD capabilities," said Chris Dale, VP-Engineering at AGW. "Rarely do we find an engineer who has both gear and gearbox experience. Since we know we will have to train them, we look for someone who is willing to learn and will fit in with our family of engineers."
Atlanta Gear Works designs, engineers, builds, rebuilds and repairs heavy industrial gearboxes for some of America's leading manufacturers with the goal of minimizing and preventing downtime. It also repairs other process-critical rotating equipment and continues to grow its field service division to provide extensive field machining and repair.
Atlanta Gear Works also has a full in-house machine shop where it cuts spur, helical, double-helical and worm gears; rebuilds all brands of gears and gearboxes; and creates new gears and gearboxes from both samples and prints.
For more information contact:
Atlanta Gear Works
433 Hightower Parkway
Dawsonville, GA 30534
www.atlantagear.com