Axel Meisen Snippet A

Axel Meisen answers the question "tell us about your first job in engineering?" He describes two summer jobs while he was an undergraduate student at Imperial College in London. His first job was with British Gas, collecting data to determine why there is carbon formation when natural gas is reformed in a very large gas plant. "The production of carbon followed the Arrhenius equation", which demonstrated that chemical laws apply on a large scale. The second was with a metallurgical firm operating a smelter in Peru, where his appreciation of chemical engineering was mixed with the local labourers who worked for the company. They weren't sufficiently educated to obtain work as engineers and this indicated a human dimension to engineering that Dr. Meisen recognized for the first time and remains an element in his career.