This week’s featured student is Tiffany Onwu, a chemical engineering major from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who did a coop rotation with DuPont/Chemours in New Johnsonville, Tennessee.
Onwu worked primarily in the department that focused on the finished product. Her projects included assisting with implementing and training of a new instrument that would be used to monitor the quality of the finalized product. She also was involved with a project that was used to improve the quality of the product by performing various laboratory tests and collecting data.
Her training experience consisted majority of instruments used to test for certain specifications on finalized products. She learned new technical skills on how to perform process capability which displays the actual performance versus the customers’ specifications based on each quarter.
A challenge she faced was learning how to be able to balance and manage her time between projects. It was easily solved with scheduling in her calendar and dedicating certain days to a project. She also learned that it helped with talking with her mentors frequently, which assisted in being able to prioritize various tasks.