Quanta Labs — Matthew Hong

01 — Role

Shock & Vibration Testing

Quanta Labs is a Santa Clara-based testing and engineering services firm. As a returning intern on the Shock and Vibration team, I conducted over 75 shock and vibration tests and interfaced directly with aerospace, defense, and industrial clients to support project deliverables.

Responsibilities span test setup, execution, data collection, and documentation — including authoring and organizing standard operating procedures supporting compliance with company quality-system requirements. Testing involves multi-hour stress tests on professional shock and vibration equipment requiring safety certification to operate. I also customized and fabricated a three-dimensional test environment to meet customers' high-precision test requirements.

During my first summer at Quanta Labs (2023) I supported battery testing operations for automotive and energy-sector clients, assisting senior engineers with test setup, data collection, and reporting.

02 — Internship Work

Smart Accelerometer Cabinet

My primary intern project: an inventory management and checkout system for the lab's fleet of triaxial accelerometers, replacing a manual sign-out process with a Flask + SQLite web dashboard. This first iteration — internally called the "Trial Run" — is a deliberately software-first build tracking a 125+ unit accelerometer inventory: PIN-based sign-in, direct multi-select checkout/return, and full calibration tracking, all running ahead of the RFID badge and solenoid-locked hardware planned for the full version.

Other Quanta Labs projects remain under NDA and will be added here as they're cleared for public disclosure.

Manager dashboard showing inventory counts, calibration alerts, currently checked-out units, checkout history, and the full accelerometer inventory table

Manager dashboard — live inventory counts, calibration alerts, checkout history, and the full unit list

Checkout grid with sensitivity color legend, per-unit calibration countdown badges, and multi-select checkout

Checkout grid — sensitivity legend, live cal countdowns, multi-select checkout

Calibration status page grouped into expired, due within 7 days, due within 30 days, and current

Calibration status — expired / due-in-7 / due-in-30 / current breakdown

Screenshots use synthetic demo data — serial numbers, asset IDs, and sensitivity values shown are placeholders, not real lab inventory.

Sign-In & Checkout

PIN-based technician sign-in (per-employee PIN, no badge yet)
Grid/list toggle with a sensitivity color legend
Multi-select checkout and return, no barcode scan step
Out-of-cal and already-checked-out units are auto-unselectable

Calibration & Controls

Calibration tab: expired / due-in-7 / due-in-30 / current breakdown
Controls tab tracks the control accelerometer on each of 12 named shakers
Return flow restores prior status (e.g. Shock Only) instead of resetting to Available

Data Sync & Admin

Excel master list auto-imports on startup and daily at 8:00 AM
Manual "Sync Excel now" button on the Dashboard and Calibration tabs
Re-import never overwrites live status on existing units
Password-gated Employees tab manages the PIN roster

Dashboard

Full inventory view with calibration alerts
Live list of everything currently checked out
Complete checkout history — who, what, when, and how long

What's Next — Scaled, Locking Cabinet

This Trial Run is the software proof of concept, deliberately scoped without RFID badges, barcode scanning, or physical locking hardware. The planned full version adds RFID fob scanning for physical access control, solenoid-locked drawers tied directly to the checkout system, and LED indicators on each drawer showing unit status at a glance. Beyond inventory tracking, the goal is for project engineers to check real-time accelerometer availability when quoting jobs to customers, so they can immediately see how many units are free and confirm on the spot whether more are available if a customer needs to scale up a test.

03 — Skills Developed

Technical Experience

Testing

Shock and vibration testing equipment
Multi-hour stress test setup and monitoring
Structural failure observation and documentation

Documentation

Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Data collection and report formatting
Client-facing deliverable preparation

Professional

Direct client communication
Safety certification for lab equipment
Independent project ownership

Software

Flask web app development (routes, templates, sessions)
SQLite schema design and migration-safe queries
Excel data pipelines with openpyxl

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