October 17, 2014
Engineering My Future: Perception vs. Reality
When I first got a call from a transportation engineering section asking me to come in for an interview, I wasn’t sure if I should take it. While I was excited by the prospect of working for this particular firm, transportation engineering was something I had already done the previous summer and I was looking to expand my experience into other fields of civil engineering. During my interview, I could picture myself joining the team that interviewed me. By asking questions during my interview, I learned this position would afford me an opportunity to do more than what I had done the previous summer. My internship forced me to go on a journey of self-discovery, during which I was able to explore niches of civil engineering I previously did not know existed. It challenged my perceptions of the field, and changed what I want to do post-graduation. I worked on a huge variety of projects, from turning movement counts to collision diagrams to early environmental coordination reports. I will be presenting on my journey through the world of civil engineering, and where it has left me today.
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