Students learn about AI in manufacturing

Georgia Partners in Innovation (PIN) funded the internships, which paired the following companies and students:

ABM: Miguel Ballesteros and Connor Touchton

DataPath: Savannah Jones and Rodney Santana Ruiz

Fox Factory: Garrett Short and Sophia Xiong

Siemens: Benjamin Grau, Eric Guo, Rowan Ponelis, and Reese Pieroni

At the end of the internships, students took part in a poster session sponsored by Georgia PIN.

Touchton, a sophomore from Lawrenceville, Georgia, pursuing dual degrees in mathematics and engineering, worked on a pair of high-impact projects at ABM, which is a company focused on modernizing infrastructure. One included creating a database of prospects and ranking them, while the other project involved setting up custom GPTs to compare ABM's pricing with its competitors.

The custom GPT work allowed Touchton to deepen his knowledge of how artificial intelligence and machine learning work. He has remained in touch with ABM and is grateful to know his work is still helpful to the team.

"I created two tools that the team is using right now," Touchton said. "That's really rewarding."