I just completed my first month at my internship. It has been a remarkably interesting experience and I have learned a lot. I have been out in the field watching as other engineers tried to track down a pipe that drawings indicated were present. I have been in marsh-like land performing measurements of a pump station area. From taking this real world information and then processing it into AutoCAD or creating design…
Friday closed out my first week at this internship. Things were really hectic the first two days but really seemed to settle down a little bit as the week went on. I think this is due to my increased familiarity with the office and the other people working there. The thing that I found the most interesting is the way a small firm has to act in order to sustain itself. While I am not sure if this is exclusive to this…
Today was my first day at my new internship. It started at 7:30 this morning, and I wound up only going through a brief 10 minute orientation. I sat in a phone conference and got acquainted with the other members at the company. Then, I had another orientaiton meeting and my personal area was set up. I am currently put into the office where one of the company salesman used to work. He is currently not with the company…
So, I got formally offered an internship today at J.R. Giese Operations LLC. They are a civil engineering firm that specializes in the use of trenchless technology for the rehabilitation, repair, or replacement of water or waste water pipes. I got an internship with them after interviewing with the president of the company and two of the other engineers working in the firm. I start bright and early on Monday morning…
A week ago, my best friend from high school, who now works at the Army Corp of Engineers in Washington D.C. imed me on aim. We were talking randomly at first about what's been going on. After a while, he started telling me about this side job he was offered. Apparently, there is a church in Baltimore that wants to renovate a few of their buildings. The buildings consist of a defunct church, which has now become a soup…
I read this article today about how physicists are attempting to make buildings "invisible" to the effects of earthquakes. The concept is familiar to most people. Look at the flow of water around a stone in a stream. The waves of water flow around the stone and continue on their way while the stone does not move. Their idea is based around efforts to create an "invisibility" cloak. Scientists today…
I recently graduated from Columbia University in May 2009. I have been job seeking since last December. It seems that nobody is hiring entry-level civil engineers. I thought that my prestigious Ivy League degree would make this easier on me. Or maybe the fact that I have two B.S. degrees would help me out. Nevertheless, I remain without a job and back home in Florida. I am not giving up hope (the recession is supposed…