Student Trainee (Civil Engineer) (Summer 2020)
The Student Trainee (Civil Engineering) Pathways Intern will participate in one of the following activities and assignments within the various branches:
Construction
- Inspecting and testing assignments on construction projects.
- Field sampling and testing of construction materials.
- Participate in partnering meetings.
- Serve as an instrument operator or rodman on construction survey of projects or monitors contractor stakeout, including staking of centerline, slope staking, drainage staking, structural staking, and setting of grade stakes.
- Compute and balance quantities.
Highway Design
- Prepare roadway plans and quantity calculations, title sheets, plan profile sheets, alignment layout, supplementary drawings, earthwork calculations, and pipe and box culvert structure detailing.
- Compute curves and traverses.
- Assemble plans, specifications, and estimate (PS&E) documents.
- Basic drafting.
Environment
- Review and summarize technical reports and NEPA documents.
- Preparation and completion of environmental and historic documents.
- Review environmental impacts of proposed projects.
- Preparation of environmental compliance documentation.
Planning and Programming
- Collection and assembly of data.
- Damage site assessments and reports for Emergency Relief projects.
- Preparation of environmental compliance documentation.
- Preparation of agreements for projects.
Technical Services
- Perform duties in the areas of technology development, safety, pavements and materials, and road inventory. Details of assignment to be determined by specific discipline.
Pavements
- Plan, Specifications & Estimates (PS&E) review process for pavement design projects.
- Design and construction recommendations for new and rehabilitation pavement projects.
- Perform pavement-testing services
- Conduct pavement field investigations
- Operation and maintenance of the Pavement Management System
Road Inventory Program
- Coordination and collection of roadway engineering data using computerized and electronic visual equipment in a vehicle that includes video cameras, distance measuring devices, electronic horizontal and vertical slope detectors, electronic rut and roughness indicators, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
- Analyzes entire road systems to be inventoried and devises collection procedures.
Materials
- Log in samples, prepares samples for testing, monitors testing procedures and records data of materials such as concrete, soils, asphalt, and roadway aggregates.
- Visually inspect materials and determine sizes to be crushed; lift and handle samples; observe and operate sieve shakers.
- Retrieve and compile data.
- Research past mix designs and compile comparison data.
Geotechnical
- Geotechnical design calculations and technical reports.
- Project site geological and geotechnical mapping, logging, borehole data and samples, sketching details of test pit investigations, obtaining data from geotechnical instrumentation, operating hand tools for field investigations, collecting, bagging and labeling soil and rock samples in preparation for shipping, and other geotechnical field assistance.
- Inputting field data into Geotechnical software programs.
Hydraulics
- Hydrologic and Hydraulic design calculations.
- Development of drainage design and Storm Water Management Plans.
- Preparation of technical reports and cost estimates.
- Preparation of project specifications and review of PS&E packages.
- Gathering project site information, inspecting construction, confirming post-construction BMP installation, or identifying assets.
- Review and summarization of permits or correspondence from regulatory agencies.
Bridge Design, Management, and Inspection
- Preparation of project specifications and perform design and quality check on PS&E packages.
- Field assessments, information gathering, and preliminary scoping of projects.
- Compiling structural analysis and design of concrete, steel, or timber bridge components.
- Use Microstation CADD to prepare bridge plan sheets.
- Perform calculations of quantities and basic engineering calculations.
- Operate bridge inspection equipment, take and record data, develop sketches and prepares required reports.
- Structures inventory and evaluation of data
Survey
- Assist survey crew
- Perform basic engineering computations using formulas, hand held calculators, and electronic survey equipment.
- Serve as instrument operator and/or target cube holder on construction survey and/or engineering stakeout of project or assists in monitoring contract stakeout.
Project Delivery-Engineering Support
- Duties include a variety of activities including design, construction, technical services, and project management.
- Review technical civil engineering project design documents and submittals, identify civil engineering problems and provide recommendations for corrective actions.
- Update GIS maps and figures for research tasks.
- Miscellaneous project contract administration duties.