My first job at the ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery was as the “Extraction Contact Engineer.” When my boss called me to say they had a next assignment proposal for me, and explained what it was, I wasn’t even entirely sure what the title meant. I had studied extraction in my senior year separations class, and I knew it was a method of separating out components in one substance by using another to attract those components into it. However, I had absolutely no clue how this process

Today's guest blog post features my fellow ND chemical engineer and best friend Rachel Levy! Rachel and I met sophomore year at Notre Dame and we gravitated toward one another with our similar interests, commitment to academics, and love of our families. Rachel and I moved to Houston to start our careers together and lived together in our first big girl apartment. We've been through a lot together, and I'm excited to be a bridesmaid in September when Rachel Levy becomes Rache

It is with great honor and excitement that today's first-ever guest blog is an interview with one of my best friends, my Maid of Honor, and fellow ND alum Rebecca Cink. Becca and I first met during ND's Spain study abroad program the summer after our sophomore year. We immediately hit it off and have been best friends ever since. Becca is incredibly driven, hard-working, creative, and adventurous. Once she has a goal in mind, she relentlessly pursues it. There are many quali

For the past 20 weeks, I have been working on my first project with Arconic at our Davenport Works (DPW) facility in Davenport, Iowa. The plant is massive, with a footprint of over 6.5 million square feet, and produces a variety of plate and sheet products for the aerospace and automotive markets. For example, in aerospace, DPW supplies aluminum products that are used for the fuselage and wings in multiple Boeing and Airbus aircraft models, and DPW even supplied aluminum used