Nick Hoffmann
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Class of 2012
From Wichita, KS
Consultant
Trinity Consultants
Lives in Seattle, WA
Contact: [email protected]
Most of my involvement at KU was centered around the Biomedical Engineering Society. I was active in this organization planning events and meetings as both the secretary and president. This was a great way to bring engineers of multiple disciplines together who are excited about the same topics. I also served on the Funding Advisory Committee for three years in addition to regularly attending ESC meetings and activities. In the Self program, I was the community service coordinator and ran the community service competition. In addition to my involvement at KU, I was privileged to have a great internship in the summer of 2011 doing process engineering in West Texas. This allowed me to apply my classroom knowledge and pick up very useful practical skills along the way. I worked with Dr. Camarda my freshman and sophomore years doing research in Molecular Simulation and Design. It was a good way to put all my computer and programming skills to use in a chemical engineering application. I worked on the programming side of a project to predict the properties of Ionic Liquids based on their molecular structure. When the weather was nice in Lawrence, I liked to play Frisbee golf. I also liked to go out frequently with my friends to play trivia at 23rd St. Brewery, despite frequently placing in the lower percentiles.
I accepted an engineering position as a consultant in Seattle, WA with Trinity Consultants and started in July of 2012. Trinity Consultants is an environmental engineering company that focuses on air quality and has dozens of regional offices across the Unites States as well as in the Middle East and China. As a consultant, I help clients from all types of industries from pulp and paper to petroleum navigate the complex world of environmental regulations and requirements. Being a consultant involves a balancing act which involves the goals of the client with the regulatory agencies which approve the applications. Many of my projects for clients involve Notice of Construction applications, which are necessary to obtain before a project can commence construction. These applications look at the regulatory requirements, emission control technology options, as well as the environmental impact caused by the project. I frequently put together emission inventories for clients as well as do air dispersion modeling to show compliance with local, state, and national ambient air quality standards. My computers skills have really helped me in quickly learning the several modeling programs used by Trinity. I enjoy being a consultant because I am able to interact with a variety of clients that I would never have the opportunity to meet otherwise.
After I graduated in May of 2012 and before I moved out to Seattle, I got married in Lawrence. My wife Stephanie is a fellow KU Chemical Engineering graduate who is in the PhD program at the University of Washington. We are enjoying living in Seattle and exploring a new region. The Northwest is a beautiful part of the country with lots of hiking and outdoors activities here. There are many great things to do in the Seattle area, and we have gone exploring downtown and been whale watching out in Puget Sound. Now that is in winter, we are hoping to go skiing at one of the many slopes around the Seattle area.
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Class of 2012
From Wichita, KS
Consultant
Trinity Consultants
Lives in Seattle, WA
Contact: [email protected]
Most of my involvement at KU was centered around the Biomedical Engineering Society. I was active in this organization planning events and meetings as both the secretary and president. This was a great way to bring engineers of multiple disciplines together who are excited about the same topics. I also served on the Funding Advisory Committee for three years in addition to regularly attending ESC meetings and activities. In the Self program, I was the community service coordinator and ran the community service competition. In addition to my involvement at KU, I was privileged to have a great internship in the summer of 2011 doing process engineering in West Texas. This allowed me to apply my classroom knowledge and pick up very useful practical skills along the way. I worked with Dr. Camarda my freshman and sophomore years doing research in Molecular Simulation and Design. It was a good way to put all my computer and programming skills to use in a chemical engineering application. I worked on the programming side of a project to predict the properties of Ionic Liquids based on their molecular structure. When the weather was nice in Lawrence, I liked to play Frisbee golf. I also liked to go out frequently with my friends to play trivia at 23rd St. Brewery, despite frequently placing in the lower percentiles.
I accepted an engineering position as a consultant in Seattle, WA with Trinity Consultants and started in July of 2012. Trinity Consultants is an environmental engineering company that focuses on air quality and has dozens of regional offices across the Unites States as well as in the Middle East and China. As a consultant, I help clients from all types of industries from pulp and paper to petroleum navigate the complex world of environmental regulations and requirements. Being a consultant involves a balancing act which involves the goals of the client with the regulatory agencies which approve the applications. Many of my projects for clients involve Notice of Construction applications, which are necessary to obtain before a project can commence construction. These applications look at the regulatory requirements, emission control technology options, as well as the environmental impact caused by the project. I frequently put together emission inventories for clients as well as do air dispersion modeling to show compliance with local, state, and national ambient air quality standards. My computers skills have really helped me in quickly learning the several modeling programs used by Trinity. I enjoy being a consultant because I am able to interact with a variety of clients that I would never have the opportunity to meet otherwise.
After I graduated in May of 2012 and before I moved out to Seattle, I got married in Lawrence. My wife Stephanie is a fellow KU Chemical Engineering graduate who is in the PhD program at the University of Washington. We are enjoying living in Seattle and exploring a new region. The Northwest is a beautiful part of the country with lots of hiking and outdoors activities here. There are many great things to do in the Seattle area, and we have gone exploring downtown and been whale watching out in Puget Sound. Now that is in winter, we are hoping to go skiing at one of the many slopes around the Seattle area.