Hi and Help!
I am teaching Intro to Engineering right now. Our students are having one of the best experiences we have ever had. We are working really hard to combine 1. exposure to engineering principles, 2. exposure to engineering through doing (like the canoe experience), 3. exposure to careers in engineering by touring (yesterday we went to Boston Scientific -- thanks Alisha and Kari), and 4. exposure to real engineers. This is where I need your help.
I would like to be able to walk into class each day and show a highlight of a former student who is now an engineer (and I mean engineer in the broadest sense...see my former blog about being an engineer!). Here is my request:
Please send me an email with the following information:
name:
high school:
years at comm college:
transfer university:
major and year of graduation:
list of different places you've worked:
current job description (a paragraph here would be helpful):
thing you like best about being an engineer:
favorite class in college:
piece of advice to first year engineering student:
and a picture (any picture will work...even none if you don't want)
THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU!
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Re-Tooling TBL
For several years TBL was a blog where I wrote about a wide variety of topics. Those postings are still in the Blog Archive and many are about professional development for engineers. I am now transitioning TBL to be a place where my current and former students can find information related to job searches.
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1 comment:
Mark Surface
Grand Rapids H.S.
ICC-'84-'86, '03-'04
University of North Dakota
2006 B.S. Civil Engineering
'83-'93 Rajala Lumber Company
'93-'07 Blandin Paper Company
'07-current USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
I currently work in northeast Minnesota as a Civil Engineer Tech out of the Grand Rapids Field Office. The NRCS used to be the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) which was created during the "Dust Bowl" era. Our main function is to help landowners, mainly farmer and ranchers, preserve water, soil, air, and wildlife quality. The engineers in the NRCS are part of the Technical Service Providers. We design structures to control rainfall runoff from washing sediments, soils or organics, into our waterways. We design pipeline systems for watering livestock. And we design agricultural waste handling systems for storage and treatment. The civil engineering technician is involved with all aspects of the project from problem identification to the solution design and finally the construction. We have to be proficient at client interaction/communication, surveying, autocad, design procedures, and construction inspection.
I like solving complex problems with a least cost solution that makes the client happy.
My favorite class was Statics.
Advice: The subject matter at the community college level provides the foundation for everything you do your last 2 years and beyond. Try to truly learn as much of the subject as possible and cross-apply wherever you can.
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