Summer 2024 Recap

Hello again SWEsters! Hopefully homework and exams hasn’t kept you too busy so far this semester. Today, we wanted to spend some time highlighting our awesome members who were definitely kept super busy this summer with internships, co-ops, and research!

Ally Lewis

Ally is a 3rd year in Food Engineering and did a co-op at Cargill in Orange County, California during the Spring and Summer. The plant she worked at packaged edible oils (canola, vegetable, and peanut oil) and in her role she was in charge of helping out with the various automation processes on the line and in the warehouse! Some other opportunities for Ally included visiting Laguna beach, Disneyland, and Myrtle Beach. She also got to try a food market called the 626 Night Market with various local food options and vendors. Lastly she picked up a new hobby: running!

Quin Kearney

Quin is a 2nd year in Mechanical Engineering, and this summer she worked at Control Southern in Suwanee, Georgia as a valve and specialty application engineering intern. Hern favorite part was learning how to weld while on a site visit to Macon, Georgia and she loved learning about the importance of the valve industry and how widespread it is. This summer, Quin also joined a pickleball team and met a bunch of new people through it! She also got to travel to Chicago and New York City to visit her sisters and experience the big cities!

Alyssa Kadlubowski

Alyssa is a 3rd year in Chemical Engineering and worked at Dow Chemical in Plauemine, Louisiana on a co-op as an Improvement Engineer. Her favorite part was getting hands-on experience in the plant and learning about process equipment at the manufacturing scale! This summer, Alyssa got to explore Louisiana and saw lots of gators, visited Houston, learned to bake, and, most importantly, ate lots of ice cream!

Samantha Pifher

Samantha is a 4th year in Industrial Systems Engineering and this summer she worked at DHL in Westerville as part of the Solutions Design team. Her favorite part was all the networking opportunities she had gotten within the company. As part of her internship, she had a capstone where her team presented their project to business partners, which she found was a great way to learn about the company and network. She also go to go to Chicago for a week and saw The Bean!

Emily Williams

Emily is a 2nd year in Chemical Engineering and spent the summer rock climbing, paddle boarding, going to concerts, taking a trip to Cleveland, reading, crocheting, lifting, rewatching The Vampire Diaries, and listening to a lot of music.

Ellie Spiewak

Ellie is a 4th year in Biological Engineering and she worked for Kellanova in Grand Rapids, Michigan as a Supply Chain Manufacturing Intern. Her favorite part of her internship was getting to make Poptarts! Ellie also got a chance to explore Grand Rapids while learning how to throw wheel pottery, getting to rock climb, and also traveled to Hilton Head.

Emily Claypool

Emily is a 3rd year in Chemical Engineering and worked at Merck in Durham, North Carolina as a Technical Operations Intern. Her favorite part was meeting her team and the other interns. Over the summer, Emily also took trips to the beach, went to a women in STEM networking event, visited Duke and UNC, hiked, and went to Publix for the first time.

Lily Obert

Lily is a 4th year in Electrical Engineering and she worked for Burns & McDonnell in Columbus this summer as a Controls Engineering Intern. She thought it was really cool to see how control ties together with electrical and mechanical engineering! Lily was also able to spend time this summer going to concerts, spending time outside, FaceTiming friends, baking, and watching baseball!

Reese Lloyd

Reese is a 3rd year in Biomedical Engineering and she worked at Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a Systems & R&D Engineering Intern. At this internship she learned how to solder electronics and use thermal cameras! For her the best part of every day was the daily meetings to do the NYT Wordle and Connections with the other interns. Reese got to hike a lot of the state trails in Minnesota, bungee jumped, got into bouldering, and made pasta from scratch!

Abby Pollauf

Abby is a 4th year in Aerospace Engineering and worked at Northrop Grumman in Chandler, Arizona as a Systems Engineer Intern. She had a fantastic mentor, BUT she graduated from the University of Michigan so they had a summer rivalry. Outside of her internship, Abby got to do the Salt River Float in Arizona and saw wild horses crossing the river! She went to Farmer’s Markets in Arizona, tried Prickly Pear Ice Cream and loved it, went to her first MLB game, and discovered her love for Dutch Bros Coconut Mochas.

Alana Gorukanti

Alana is a 2nd year in Computer Science & Engineering and worked at Welltower Inc. in Toledo as a Software Engineer and Data Management Intern. Her favorite parts were getting the opportunity to program and develop meaningful projects, learn new things, meet new people, and explore a whole new area by herself. Outside of time spent on her internship, she worked on the SWE website and app, tried new restaurants around Toledo, went to the gym, and spent time with family and friends.

As you can see, our fellow SWEsters were kept pretty busy this summer! Keep an eye out to the instagram page (@osuswe) to see some pictures of our fellow Buckeyes having some fun this summer! As a final wrap up, we also wanted to do a bit of a reading wrap up based on the information you gave us from this summer! By the end of the summer, the book club had the following accomplishments:

• Total Badges Earned: 72
• Total Books Read: 278

Some of our members favorite books were:

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
• Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
• A Curse in Darkness by Sherilee Gray

Here’s hoping we can keep this energy up in the book club this semester!

— Mallory