A Perspective of a Recent University of Tulsa Graduate and Now a Project Engineer - A brief look at what is expected of our generation and lessons learned
(Room Conference Hall)
05 Apr 18
12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
After two years of internships, the speaker was anxious to see find a full-time position upon graduation. The MarkWest wasn't just any ordinary internship - he was given real projects and real responsibility. As luck would have it, DeWeese was offered a full-time position and immediately thrown to the wolves. "We run lean," seems to be the slogan of the operations company, but DeWeese really didn't understand that until he was sitting in a PHA as the sole engineer because every other engineer at the company was tending to other needs. Through his first year DeWeese learned his way through four different cryogenic gas facilities, where well gas is processed through a demethanization unit making it suitable to be gas used residentially. Lessons learned are how to deal directly with the operations group, how to make attempts to bridge the age gap that exists, and for them to value input into any situation. DeWeese quickly found himself in a position of increasing responsibility. Operations valued his input, as he made every attempt to work as hard as he could to get them answers before they needed them. DeWeese did everything from sizing control valves, to vibration studies, to managing a three-quarter-million dollar revamp project. At the end of his first year at MarkWest he learned that the company would be adding an additional plant in Oklahoma, and as the only facility engineer in Oklahoma it was only natural that DeWeese would be involved in this project as well, but at what level?