SWEA

At Southwire's state-of-the-art production facilities in Carrollton, Georgia, junior SWEA engineers develop and sharpen valuable hands-on experiences, while working with one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers in the world. In addition to learning about a variety of engineering disciplines – including industrial, mechanical and electrical engineering – the teams experience how these disciplines are applied every day to meet modern manufacturing and product development objectives.

SWEA teams learn to look at challenges differently. Working alongside the industry's brightest engineering minds, they are given either manufacturing or product development tasks to complete using traditional engineering principles.  From using root-cause analysis to detect production line inefficiencies, to identifying the right mathematical formulas to calculate the footage of wire on a partial reel to reduce waste. SWEA students are solving real-world challenges. This program teaches students important lessons in leadership, teamwork, innovation and perseverance.