This week’s featured student is Daniel Whitcomb, a chemical engineering major from Nashville, Tennessee, who worked at Dow’s Polyethylene B plant on their site in Plaquemine, Louisiana. His responsibilities included organizing moisture data from the warehouse, building spreadsheets for creating reports, finding unregistered insulated pipes on P & ID’s, measuring pits and dikes, creating flowsheets on Aspen, SSIS audits for pressure safety valves and learning the processes of the plant.
Whitcomb had no idea what it was like to work in a plant before this assignment, and he finally had an understanding of the kind of job he could have as a chemical engineer. The experience of working in the plant was invaluable as it allowed him to judge what kind of job positions he would like to try. This was a wonderful experience and he looks forward to his next coop rotational assignment in the near future.