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Internships & Career Fair Brownbag

September 17, 2012. Internships & Career Fair Brownbag. Simulation Solutions, Inc. Summer 2012. Shrewsbury, NJ Provides process simulators for simulation based training INSTO TM training approach: I dentification, N ormal Operations, S tartup/Shutdown, T roubleshooting, O ptimization

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Internships & Career Fair Brownbag

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  1. September 17, 2012 Internships & Career Fair Brownbag

  2. Simulation Solutions, Inc. Summer 2012 • Shrewsbury, NJ • Provides process simulators for simulation based training • INSTOTM training approach: • Identification, Normal Operations, Startup/Shutdown, Troubleshooting, Optimization • Simulator consists of two components: • Digital Control System (DCS) Screen • 3D Virtual Refinery • Goal: allow operators to practice startup and shutdown procedures, emergency response, and acquire a better understanding of the process dynamics • “The plant is no place for practice.”

  3. Simulation Solutions, Inc. Summer 2012 • How you obtain this internship? • Job Vault & on-campus interview • Recommendation from previous intern • What did you do? • Put together exercise booklets for plant operator training • DCS and Outside Operator Identification exercises • Startup and shutdown procedures and scrambles • “What If”, Cause & Effect, and troubleshooting exercises • Developed new P&IDs and updated old ones • Provided customer assistance with simulators • Capstone project: design three new simulator modules for seawater desalination

  4. Simulation Solutions, Inc. Summer 2012 • What information from class did you utilize? • Process Control • Unit Operations • Design Analysis • What were your favorite parts about the internship? • Comfortable work environment • Enhanced my understanding of process equipment and dynamics • Opportunity to lead the design of new modules • Continue to work for SSI while at school and over break • What was your least favorite part? • Spent a lot of time in front of a computer

  5. McNeil Consumer Healthcare-Summer 2012 • Fort Washington, PA • Over-the-counter medicine manufacturer • McNeil Consumer Healthcare is a Johnson & company • Manufactures over-the-counter medications such as Tylenol, Motrin and Zyrtec. • The Fort Washington location previously manufactured OTC liquid and solid medications. • Entered consent decree to the FDA in 2011 and has since redesigned/rebuilt portions of the Fort Washington facility.

  6. McNeil Consumer Healthcare • How did you obtain this internship? • Using connections to get in contact with engineering manager. • What did you do? • Worked on commissioning and qualification for the restart of the Fort Washington liquids manufacturing facility while McNeil Consumer Healthcare was under consent decree to the FDA. • Tasks included: • P&ID walkdowns • Performed calculations for cleaning validation • Built turnover packages and assisted in site acceptance testing.

  7. McNeil Consumer Healthcare • What information from class did you utilize? • P&ID’s and general process/unit operation knowledge from EDII • Process Control • Unit Operations. • What was your favorite part? • Seeing a manufacturing facility progress from construction to early the earlier stages on site acceptance testing. • What was your least favorite part? • At times dull documentation necessary due FDA regulation/McNeil’s consent decree.

  8. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Summer ’11 & ’12 • World Headquarters: Trexlertown, PA • Gas and chemical production for industrial uses • Large provider of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, and chemical intermediates. • Key growth markets: semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction

  9. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Summer ’11 • How did you obtain this internship? • Career Services (ie Career Fair, Job Vault, on-campus interview) • What did you do? • Worked in GO Gen Gases Tech Team • Created a graphical system to monitor plants • Vibration SPC trends • What was your favorite part? • The people • Networking • Responsibility • Informational Interviews • What was your least favorite part? • Long hours in front of a computer

  10. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Summer ’12 • How did you obtain this internship? • Networking • What did you do? • Plant Process Engineering Group at Hometown, PA • Headed a project that will save the company $400,000 a year • Top fill a transfill process • Led a cooling system clean-out project • Worked on various smaller projects • Walk down P&ID • Pump Specs • Heat Duty Calculation for CF4 • Incident Investigation in WF6

  11. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Summer ’12 • What information from class did you utilize? • Unit Operations • Process Controls • ED I & II • Thermodynamics • M & E • Separations • Design Analysis • What was your favorite part? • Utilizing what I learned in class • Working in a plant • Engineers, Operators, Business, Maintenance • What was your least favorite part? • The commute • Wearing PPE

  12. Navigating the Career Fair for a ChE • Visit http://careerservices.lafayette.edu/2012/08/09/fall-career-fair-2012/ to see list of companies • Research each company so you are informed • Name & type • Locations • Internship & Job Opportunities • Good companies for ChEs (just some of the many) • ExxonMobil- Petroleum • Air Products- Industrial Gases • Linde- Industrial Gases • Johnson & Johnson-Healthcare products & Pharmaceuticals • Flowserve-Pumps, valves, etc. • West Pharmaceuticals-Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals • B.Braun-Pharmaceuticals

  13. What to wear

  14. What not to wear

  15. What to bring • Folder • Resumes (15-20) • List of companies you find interesting • Questions to ask • How established is the program? • What is the job? • What they like most and least about the company

  16. When you are there • Wait in line but be bold • Talk to everybody, don’t limit yourself to your preset list • Give your resume out • Network networknetwork

  17. After the fair • Send Thank Yous • Follow up with connections you made • Check the Career Vault for internship positions and interview schedules • http://lafayettecareervault.experience.com/experience/login

  18. GOOD LUCK!

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