Day Three

Today started with an unfortunate phone call from my mentor telling me the site I was supposed to go to with one of his workers was cancelled because the worker called in sick. Even though I was disappointed, the day turned out to be a very busy and interesting day in the office. When I walked in, I was met with more filing, but it took only a little bit of time because I had done most of the work load the day before. Then I met up with David, who does a lot of work making the plats and getting them finalized for Mr. Schneeberg. David first showed me the ropes of being a civil engineer. When dealing with a piece of property, there are certain rules that you must abide by in each city when working on a site. After showing me a few of the city pages, David showed me zoning rules, flood plain rules, and how you have to deal with neighbors when working on a certain area. After all of this, David started me out by scaling a certain plat where part of the sidewalk on the site had to much slope to it. I scaled the plat by drawing cross lines perpendicular to each other so I tomorrow, David and I could measure the points that I put down on the plat. Next I did some highlighting on another plot for him so he could put the information into the CAD. To end the day, David showed me how to use the CAD and then had me do a basic design of one of his newer projects. Even though it took some time to learn, I was able to make it work out in the end and fortunately the design looked exactly like the design on the plat. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as eventful as today!