First Day

Today I met up with my mentor Robert Schneeberg and he introduced me to all the people in the office. After meeting everyone, Mr. Scneeberg gave me some background information on what his engineering firm does on a day to day basis. First he showed me a bunch of long pieces of paper with blueprints of the site that they were working on. These prints are called plats and Mr. Schneeberg sends in these plats with information on drainage and other such things to the city and the city review all the specs to make sure everything is okay. When everything is good they sign it and send it back meaning that all the stuff they plan to do is okay by city standards. Mr. Schneeberg then let me sit with one of his colleagues who was working on a program CAD. CAD or computer-aided design is the system that they use to draw all of the specs on. After organizing all the information, they print it on to the large sized paper so it can be sent to the city. After a nice lunch, I came back and worked on organizing a stack of plats that the company had been working on. Even though the job was very laboring, I realized how much work there was to be done in the office from organizing, to working on the computer, to making calls to people who are interested in getting you to work on a new piece of land. Overall I thought today was a very productive day and hopefully it will only get better from here on out.