Epics of India JG94: Introduction

Hello, My name is Jeff Green!

Well summer is now over and school is back in session. I spent my summer working as an intern at Advanced Chemical Technologies Inc. in OKC. They mainly manufacture water-proofing products for concrete along with a variety of other products. I worked there doing R&D for new products and had a pretty good time but I really don't have any exciting stories of my summer to share. I also got my Lean/Six Sigma Green belt during this summer. It's a certification in a optimized process mentality mainly used in manufacturing. Dr. Pulat teaches it here at OU and it's worth doing if you're in the college of engineering as it looks pretty good on your resume.

I'm a chemical engineering student at OU in the college of engineering and I'm minoring in English writing (I've always followed the mantra "Major in where you can find work. Minor in something you enjoy"). Chemical Engineering has been a very difficult major but I feel that ultimately it's been worth the extra work required to succeed. This will be my fourth and final year here at OU as I will be graduating this upcoming spring semester. By graduation, I hope to have a job lined up so I can move directly into the workforce. I don't really have any specific career goals as to what company I want to work for, but I'd like to get into the chemical or energy industries. If I can get a company to pay for it, I'd love to pursue an MBA and move into chemical engineering management. My overarching career mentality right now is basically "Get a job" as I'm in my last year of school.

Well now that I've gotten the boring stuff out of the way, I guess I'll give some slightly (and I mean very slightly) less boring tidbits about myself. I absolutely love to make things and it can be anything - food, furniture, massive spreadsheets used for modeling complex reaction systems for. I do really love to cook though and I'm not bad at it. I smoked quite a bit of meat in my smoker this summer as well. I just smoked a pork shoulder a few weeks back for pulled pork and a few weeks before that I smoked two twenty pound briskets about a week apart. Outside of cooking, I'm a pretty normal college-aged guy. I play video games and watch Netflix in my free time. I love to read though I really haven't been able to read for fun as much as I would like. Most of what I read nowadays is formal reports or instructions about running certain ASTM tests or about the performance of a certain reactor - you know, super fun and exciting stuff like that. I keep sliding back to the boring, technical stuff here, don't I? Engineering can be kind of boring that way. Well here's some pictures of some of the food I made this summer to sum this mostly boring introduction up on a more enjoyable note. Enjoy!