Aleshia

Lexus Hector
4500 Burbank Dr. Apt 6306 Baton Rouge, LA 70820
Phone: (337)-255-3809 E-mail: ahecto2@lsu.edu

Education

Experience

2015-present

2013-present

2013-present
2013-present

2013-2015

2014-2015
2013-2015
2014-present
2014-2015

Louisiana State University

May 2017
Majors: Chemical engineering, Biology




Cumulative GPA: 3.74
Minors: Chemistry, German
GRE Math: 165 English: 159 Total: 324
LSU Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College




May 2017
LA Service and Leadership (LASAL)





present
University of Giessen, Germany





Summer 2015
Four week study abroad program on Intellectual Property and Biotechnology: Linking Law, Business and
Science.
Senior Research Project and Thesis for Chemical Engineering at LSU
present
Project on The Effect of Nitrogen Availability on Lipid Accumulation in a Chlorella vulgaris/ Leptolyngbya
sp. Co-culture. Started in January 2015, under the leadership of Dr. Mike Benton.

Research Assistant at LSU

2013-2014
Managing data in programs including Microsoft word and Microsoft excel, measuring samples, making
new samples, running tests on machines including the GC, TGA, IR spectroscopy, and UV.
Internship at the Water Institute of the Gulf




Spring 2016
Working with hydrologic modeling software to predict water runoff in various future scenarios.
Internship at ExxonMobil






Summer 2016
Intern at the Baton Rouge Refinery in the Clean Fuels section of the Operations Support Department
Technical. Powerformer process contact for 7 weeks & completed projects for justifying HX cleanings.

Activities and Honors

OXE





President of Chemical Engineering honors society.
AED





Pre-medicine honors society. Member.
NACME scholar




ExxonMobil Engineering Scholarship

TOPS
LSU Rowing club




Coxswain
Vice president of membership


Intramural flag football



Tiger Transition Team mentor


Intra mural soccer

Skills

Fluent in German, CPR certified, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel proficient, following instructions,
organizing, managing, team-leading, data processing.

Service

Surgery Waiting Volunteer: Baton Rouge General

2014-2016
Transport patients to pre-op; escort family and visitors to pre-op, post-op, and conferences; update family
members on status of patient through contact with recovery nurses and the OR.
Garfield House Project Leader





2014-2015
Led a team of seven students in planning, coordinating and implementing a service project resulting in
building a fence for a homeless veteran housing site in Baton Rouge.
Community Bound







2013-2016
Served as a group leader for an annual LSU service project
Volunteers In Public Schools (VIPS) Reading Friend



2014
Tutored weekly with an elementary school student at an under-resourced public school.