Katie Horner
Katie is a member of the Young Professional Advisory Board and is a petroleum engineer working for Chevron in Bakersfield, Ca. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and received her BS ChE in 2009. In the spring of 2011, Katie will begin attending USC part-time while pursuing a MS Engr in Green Technologies. While at Kansas, she held various positions of leadership for the AIChE student section and was the student chapter president in 2008. After several internships in the pulp and paper industry, Katie decided to test out the water in the upstream oil and gas industry by interning with Chevron. Now, she works in a new technologies group leading a software development team in the creation of solutions for optimizing oil production processes. Within Chevron, Katie is actively involved in employee networks and is an officer for a new-employee/young generation network. Outside of work, Katie takes advantage of California’s beautiful outdoors and enjoys cycling, skiing and yoga.
ChEnected contributions
I'm a ChemE and You're Asking Me to Do What? How to Roll with the Punches and Embrace New Opportunities
Back in school when I was in the weeds of topics such as process design, kinetics or mass transfer, I'd imagine myself in a chemical plant someday designing huge equipment, wearing a hardhat and ad
Where Do Chemical Engineers Fit into the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry?
Before working for an upstream oil company, I was under the impression that chemical engineers working in oil and gas belonged in pipeline and downstream operations. For those of you not in the industry, most large, integrated oil companies consist of an upstream organization and a downstream organization. The former focuses on exploration and production and the latter refines crude petroleum into usable products (gasoline, lubricants, etc.).