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¶ … civil engineering student, I am attempting to apply for the engineering management program, and although my grades are not as high as they could be, I am convinced that they do not adequately reflect my overall professional abilities and skills. For the longest of time, I have thought that grades are not such an important factor when compared to being able to apply the knowledge obtained at school to real-life experiences, such as one might find as a gainfully-employed professional civil engineer.
I would like to point out that despite the fact that I did not have a really high GPA, something above 3.5 or better, I was selected during my time as a sophomore to participate as an engineering intern at the State of Massachusetts Highway Department. Considering the number of other highly-qualified applicants for this position, I thought of myself as rather fortunate to have been chosen. Therefore, I decided to confidently apply what I had learned at school to this internship; I also decided that if I ever had any questions about something or felt a bit confused regarding my duties, I would not hesitate to ask one of my supervisors. These decisions certainly paid off, for during the summer of my junior year, I was asked if I would like to return as an engineering intern at the Massachusetts Highway Department as a result of my performance the year before.
Outside of my current academic work, I recently participated in a number of campus activities, such as Relay for Life. I also traveled abroad to the city of Beijing to study and take courses unrelated to my current field of studies; I was also an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Alpha Phi Omega as a volunteer in the city of Syracuse, New York. Thus, because of these and other experiences, I have become a very well-rounded person and am confident that I can successfully complete all of the courses at the graduate level for the engineering management program.
GIS in Civil Engineering There are few fields that have been untouched by modern software applications, and civil engineering is no exception. The field of civil engineering has always relied on incorporating multiple different pieces of information, from land surveys to maps showing various urban features. One of the roles of the civil engineer is to bring together various pieces of information that are relevant to a problem, so that an
Ibraheem, A., Hassan, H. & Al-Husain, M. (2012). Integrating ACAD with GIS for civil engineering applications. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications. Vol. 5 (2012) 138-146. This paper examines the integration of AutoCAD with geographic information systems. The author provides an overview of GIS as a set of intelligent maps, and the authors are examining the possibility of using AutoCAD to design these. There are significant differences between GIS and CAD,
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Longitudinal evaluation of a GIS laboratory in a transportation engineering course," Bham, Cernusca, Luna and Manepalli look at the effectiveness of a geographic information system-based tutorial in the teaching of transportation engineering. The authors studied students who were given this form of tutorial in conjunction with other learning techniques. They found that the students who received this tutorial performed better than those who did not. The paper serves to
Engineers should focus on the improvement of the performance of the economy. This relates to the transformation of the theories of controlling the world and adopting new frameworks in the operating in conjunction with the planet. New engineers need to adopt and implement new theories of focusing on the economic, social, and political concepts in relation to both technical and nontechnical disciplines (Cameron 2010 p.40). Leaders in British Engineering According to
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