My Career Shadowing Experience

On Monday, June 30th, 2008, I went to the Career Shadowing at Felsburg Holt & Ullevig. It was about engineering. Alison Sambol was an Environmental Scientist and Matt was a Civil Engineer. Alison and Matt sat down and talk to me and Tai Hoang. They were explaining about becoming an engineer. The basics thing about becoming an engineer is that if you are good in Math, Physics and Chemistry. If you are, then you could see yourself becoming an engineer. The first two years of engineering in college, everybody take same basic engineering classes, so that it would give you some ideas of what kind of engineer you want to be, then on the third and fourth year, you will take different classes depending on what you are interesting on other kinds of engineering. Then Allison introduced us to a guy that dealing with designing roads. He told us that there are always some new projects to do after you finish the last project. He was so busy!!!
Then we met Jeff and Gareth. Jeff graduated from college last year and Gareth is still in college, finishing his senior year. Jeff’s job was about bridges and Gareth’s was about controlling the traffics. Alison told us that all of the different engineers can work together in one project. No matter if you are an environment engineer, computer engineer or a construction engineer, they all can work together. The company would have to ask the government and the public first before they work on the project. They have to have proves for building things, so the project would be accepted. At the end we got a pen and a graph not book. This experience was worth it, because I had learned a lot about engineering and got a free pen (it’s a very good pen too).