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West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Plan events to promote positive well-being among engineering students.• Plan outreach events to introduce children to STEM.• Coordinate Industrial Roundtable, Purdue’s engineering career fair.

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Assisted students with understanding of physics, Python, and engineering design concepts.• Graded and provided feedback on assignments and projects for a team of four students.• Designed rubrics and managed grading systems on homework portal Gradescope for 400 students in ENGR 161 course.

Belvidere, Illinois, United States

• Performed capability studies to decrease target weight of snack bars, resulting in cost savings of over $50,000 annually.• Calibrated and trialed lightbox vision system to expedite operator-performed quality checks on Nature Valley bars, created training manuals for operation of the system, and trained 30 operators. • Designed a study to quantify overuse on four Fruit by the Foot lines and created experimental procedures for reducing significant waste points by nearly 1,000 kg daily.

Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Completed design of active pharmaceutical ingredient production process over a month before start-up, taking ownership of start-up tasks including process diagrams, energy and mass balances, and production instructions for operators.• Streamlined process to address two critical quality issues from previous campaigns and minimize changeover time, resulting in more efficient production and a higher quality product.• Improved process safety in collaboration with operators by writing ten pressure tests to verify integrity of three tanks.• Assisted in process start-up tasks for three other processes by updating quality and safety deviation records, devising Gantt charts to track project progress, and ordering raw materials for upcoming processes.

Lafayette, Indiana, United States

• Analyzed design of secondary reformer showerhead burners through Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Analysis.• Co-authored paper on showerhead burner’s reduced methane slip abilities.• Restructured catalyst advertising material through thorough examination of performance data.• Gained expertise on the science of catalysis.• Completed catalyst forecasts for over 50 key customers.• Planned and documented logistics for the 2022 AIChE Ammonia Safety Symposium.• Facilitated interactions between JM sales representatives and customers.

Westmont, Illinois, United States

• Collaborated with co-workers to maintain a clean, presentable environment and maximize throughput.• Completed transactions on store items.• Communicated with customers to ensure customer satisfaction.

Westmont, Illinois, United States

• Completed customer transactions or refunds timely and efficiently.• Responded to customer needs by providing product information, aisle locations, and price verifications.• Interacted with over 100 customers per shift enthusiastically.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Purdue Engineering Student Council, alpha Kappa Delta Phi Sorority, Omega Chi Epsilon

High School Diploma, High School

Activities and Societies: Chamber Choir, National Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Spanish Honors Society, Tri-M Music Honors Society