Mekayla DePaolis
Biography
Mekayla DePaolis graduated from the University of Kansas in 2020 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. As an undergraduate she worked in the Shiflett Research Group studying the removal of sulfites in wine and developing a commercial prototype. She has also interned at the Lubrizol Texas Facilities as a Production Engineer Co-op, completing an analysis of steam trap routing and potential heating system losses. Currently Mekayla is pursuing her MS/PhD at the University of Texas Austin, focusing on the sustainable redesign of basic water treatment unit processes. |