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Dubuque, Iowa, native likes a Prairie View A&M Univer- especially when it’s your very HIGGINS
seeing a project from begin- sity senior majoring in own." Eileen Higgins, who is work-
ning to end. "I enjoy coming chemical engineering. "I am Besides the work assign- ing on her master of business
to work. I feel very chai- able to apply what I have ments, the Indiana, administration degree at Cor-
longed and am impressed by learned at school and know I Pennsylvania, native says the nell University, is assigned to
every new person I meet." will benefit in the classroom, social coordinators are doing the Business Analysis Section.
CARNEY too. a great job. "A unity has With her undergraduate de-
Courtney Carney, a senior "I wanted to see what a developed among the summer gree in mechanical
industrial engineering major process contact engineer hires that has allowed us to engineering, she is well suited
at the University of Arkansas does and wanted some prac- enjoy ourselves away from to her work. She is working on
at Fayetteville, wanted a sub- tical experiene. I m gaining work as weU. two projects: the renegotia-
stantial, interesting project that at th ere finery, F HENSTROM tion of the recycle agreement
when she came to the refinery. , . S58n 16 25 "I didn’t know what to expect with the chemical plant and
She has found it with her as- 18 n S -61 01 4s.4 since this was my first work ex- the catalyst management sys-
signment in the Laboratory, processicontact engineer, she perience in a refinery ,w said tern.
"We are trying to validate iscon U ing.a S ncs David Henstrom of Provo, I wanted to be assigned spe-
some data from an earlier a k a ion es s o e ermine Utah. "In school you have cial projects rather than have
study as well as eliminate un- 5 op imum opera ing ar homework with the data day-to-day operations and the
necessary testing," Courtney &5 5 ° 1 parame ers. readily available. That’s not refinery has made that pos-
said. "My latest project is to DELANEY the way it is in the real world sible, she commented. "It’s a
reconstruct the existing layout John Delaney, a mechanical and I like the challenge of great climate and I love all
of the lab. engineering senior at Notre finding out what is really hap- refinery tours and social
"It’s great. I find that Dame, describes his ex- pening. events.
regardless of any person’s perience as a Fuels West "People are so willing to help ISERN
department, everyone always mechanical contact engineer and give advice. That exper- "I took the summer job here
seems willing to offer their as "fantastic." tise is so important." to see if I would like working
help. I like the responsibility that The Brigham Young as an engineer," said Sharon
Tours of refinery areas as I have been given," he said. University chemical engineer- Isern, a Johns Hopkins
well as the planned outside "My first assignment was to ing senior who is assigned to University senior chemical eu-
social events, such as replace a pressure vessel. I the Lubes Extraction Unit 1 is gineering major. "And I love
windsurfing and sailing, go a gathered the information involved in several studies in- it!"
long way in making this a about the requirements, eluding developing raffinate "I feel that what I’m doing is
super summer, she says. wrote the specifications for index correlations to optimize important, not busy work.
DAVIS the vendor and put together a the treater tower operations. One of my first assignments
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