Engineering

We seek chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineers to fill co-op positions in maintenance, reliability, process, project, production, electrical and environmental engineering capacities.

A typical chemical engineering co-op experience:

First term – work on projects with narrow scopes that one should be able to complete in a single term

Learn the methods of plant data acquisition and use the data to perform material balances, which can be incorporated into the daily monitoring and reports for that unit
Gain plant experience working with operators and looking inside any open equipment
Conduct heat exchanger surveys, which involves both field work and engineering calculations / simulations

Second term – involvement in broader projects that require interacting with various areas of the plant

Optimize reactor performance by gathering samples and analyzing data to determine an optimum control point (ratio, temperature, pressure, etc.)
Coordinate a small task that a production engineer usually monitors
Simulate small process equipment

Third and subsequent terms – focus on large projects that involve more developed technical and problem-solving skills

Given a general problem, investigate the causes and develop a correction plan
Conduct a process study on an entire unit and make quality improvement and debottlenecking recommendations
Simulate complex equipment, such as extraction and distillation columns; create larger models involving multiple items in series, etc.
May be given unit contact responsibilities for a small unit (similar to entry-level engineer)

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