This week’s featured student is 
Madison Brummitt, a Biosystems engineering major from Churchill, Tennessee, who worked as a co-op student with Cargill in Memphis.
In reporting on his rotation, Brummitt worked in the acidulates department. His first assignment was to calculate the steam flow around an evaporator using historical pi data and the current valve percentage. From there, he was able to get a formula that could estimate the steam flow through the evaporator at any percentage. He also worked on upgrading a liquid transfer pump. The most valuable benefit he received was patience. Working in a factory he had to wait for long approval processes to ensure the work was accurate and safe which could take weeks.