Career Path of a Civil Engineer Project Manager at Terracina Design
Boston's career path started with an early interest in building, leading them to pursue civil engineering; "building stuff linking logs" in childhood evolved into coursework in surveying, structural engineering, and transportation, culminating in a construction internship before entering land development, where they now focus on "overall Master planning."
Civil Engineering, Project Management, Land Development, Internships, Career Path
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Boston Blake
Civil Engineer Project Manager
Terracina Design
Texas Tech University 2013
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Engineering - Civil
Architecture, Construction & Design
Operations and Project Management
Video Highlights
1. Boston knew early on that they wanted to pursue a career in civil engineering, which was inspired by childhood activities like playing city-building video games and constructing things.
2. During college, Boston took several civil engineering courses such as surveying, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, and transportation engineering, which solidified their interest in the field.
3. After college, Boston started working in land development and later transitioned into a project management role, gaining experience in both construction and master planning aspects of civil engineering projects.
Transcript
Could you walk me through your career path, starting with your experiences in college? Please also include any internships or jobs you had before your current role.
In college, most people don't know what they want to do. Luckily for me, I kind of did, just because of what I enjoyed doing growing up.
I was always trying things, like playing video games where you build cities, and linking logs. It all kind of led to civil engineering for myself. I luckily knew that path originally and took all the prerequisites for it.
I did all the chemistry and calculus and all that stuff. Through the weeding out process, I luckily got to the fun classes for civil engineering. That's where it really became more fun for me.
We took surveying and structural engineering, Geotech, and transportation, and really learned how our civilization all kind of works together. It was always very interesting and became really easy to me.
As for internships, I was only able to do one. It was with a construction company where I worked more in building and putting up all the electrical work and putting the walls up. Now, what I do is more of the overall master planning of things. It's nice to see what goes into a building from that aspect.
After college, I went straight into land development and have been in that field since then.
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