This week’s featured student is Garrett Smith, a chemical engineering major from Blountville, Tennessee, who worked as a co-op student with Eastman Chemical Company.
In reporting on his rotation, Smith worked in the Process Safety Services Department, which maintains and improves the safety of the company through a variety of methods and implementation. His main focus was to Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), which is a set of organized and systematic assessments of the potential hazards associated with an industrial process.
While working on a co-op, Smith obtained knowledge of how the chemical industry works and gained technical experience, which will all be beneficial to him once he graduates.