Zeinab's review of a meaningful and great experience.

Review of an meaningful and great experience - Zeinab at Health Care

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My name is Zeinab and I am a senior student in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana. I love to try new foods and play soccer with my brother. Furthermore, I enjoy thrifting clothes and sewing or dyeing them to make them uniquely for me.  

This summer I did an internship at the Tippecanoe site of Evonik in Lafayette, USA, for three months. I only knew a little about Evonik before my internship. One thing that really drew me to the company was the diversity of the business lines and potential for collaboration and growth on a personal and professional level. I worked in the Health Care business line as an intern in Process Engineering. I supported engineering activities for a project which entailed providing design calculations for lab scale equipment and researching unanswered topics during the process design. Furthermore, I updated process safety information and had the chance to participate in a process safety project. Towards the end of the summer, I created an Aspen Plus simulation for the continuous production of bulk active pharmaceutical ingredient in order to model the energy balance of the system.  

Throughout my time there, my mentor was extremely supportive, and I found that everyone was more than willing to help in any way they could. The culture at Evonik is something that really stuck out to me and I appreciated during my summer as an intern. Over the course of my internship, I had multiple opportunities to use my school knowledge and also learned a lot about the industry and the differences in thought processes. What I will take with me moving forward is: always keep an open mind to different ways of approaching a situation and being constantly ready and eager to learn new things from different people and experiences. I would recommend everyone: get involved with Evonik if you can because I had an incredibly meaningful experience and I’m grateful that I got this chance.  

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Zeinab

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