Amid setbacks and challenges, Christopher Wense transitioned from the steel industry to the ethanol industry a few years ago. He now works full-time as an ethanol plant operations technician at the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) at SIUE and firmly believes in the saying “everything happens for a reason” as he is finding great opportunity in his new career.
Wense shared his story of professional and academic growth in a guest columnist article posted Thursday, Jan. 18 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.