Date of Graduation

5-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering

Degree Level

Undergraduate

Department

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Advisor/Mentor

Haggard, Brian

Committee Member

McVey, Matthew

Second Committee Member

Herold, Warren

Abstract

My honors thesis examined my internship experiences and its implications on sustainability data gathering and reporting in poultry and pet food companies. It highlighted my internship projects, the skills I developed, and the connections to sustainability data transparency and reliability in a corporate environment.

In my thesis, I shared details about my internship. I described what projects I worked on, the places I visited, the hands-on experience I gained, and the different teams I worked with throughout the internship duration. I discussed the analytic and professional skills I developed through conducting a waste audit, developing Tableau dashboards, and helping to create an AI scraping tool to analyze invoices.

I also reflected on the relationship between my internship projects, and how they specifically tell a broader story about sustainability related data points, sources, accuracy, reliability, and interpretation for a vertically integrated poultry and pet food company. Additionally, I make recommendations for how data transparency and AI automation should be approached in the future for sustainability data points.

Overall, this internship experience gave me knowledge of the poultry and pet foods industries, data analysis and presentation skills, and a greater understanding of what sustainability means in a corporate context. This thesis reflected my internship journey learnings and connections to sustainability as a whole.

Keywords

biological; engineering; internship; experience; sustainability

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