Brandon Harris

Majoring in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
From The Woodlands, TX

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
The Woodlands High School

Brandon in the News

Brandon Harris Named to Dean's List at Georgia Tech

Brandon Harris of Houston, TX, made the Dean's List for the Fall 2018 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or higher...

February, 22 2019 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology

Brandon Harris Named to Dean's List at Georgia Tech

Brandon Harris of Houston, TX, made the Dean's List for the Fall 2017 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or higher...

February, 22 2018 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology

Brandon Harris Named to Dean's List at Georgia Tech

Brandon Harris of Houston, TX, made the Dean's List for the Fall 2016 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or higher...

February, 06 2017 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology

Brandon Harris Named to Dean's List at Georgia Tech

Brandon Harris of Houston, TX (77210-4260) made the Dean's List for Spring semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 3.0 or h...

June, 17 2015 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology

Brandon Harris Earns Faculty Honors at Georgia Tech

Brandon Harris of Houston, TX earned the distinction of Faculty Honors for Fall 2014 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 4.0 aca...

February, 06 2015 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology

Activities

Undergraduate Research: Christopher W. Jones Laboratory

Direct Capture of CO2 from Air using Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Fall 2016 - Fall 2017 - The Woodlands High School

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Work Experience

Integrated Pulping Systems Intern at Georgia Pacific LLC

Travelled to several paper mills across the United States providing support to project startups

January 2017 - Present

Baytown Refinery Operations Support Department Co-op at Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)

Initiated project to implement a compressor recycle line to increase unit profitability by $1.2M per year Created a monitoring tool for an injection system that produces real time metrics for a margin improvement of $4.3M Crafted a plant test for a 130KBD desulferization unit to increase throughput - $9.5M per year in margin opportunity Day to day experience with project management and unit upset troubleshooting

May 2016 - August 2016

Baytown Olefin Plant (BOP) Technical Co-op at Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)

Modeled plate-fin exchangers in the cold box using HTRI and PROII integration Created an automated database for furnace steam water decokes Produced a simplified flare overview to pinpoint units causing increased flow to flare Created efficiency tool for diagnosing the inefficiency of the PGC

August 2015 - December 2015

Chemical Engineering Intern at Eastman Chemical Co. (EMN)

Designed an experiment to test the acoustic and aesthetic properties of Tritan for small appliance application Performed a temperature and humidity study to obtain data on the behavior of Tritan and other Eastman materials Carried out a chemical resistance study to determine how chemicals commonly used in oral care products affect the properties of Eastman's and its competitors' materials

May 2015 - August 2015

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