- You’ll work closely with developers and local jurisdictions to design new developments [aka, you’ll know where the new Wegmans is being built…and also know exactly where to buy your next house].
- You’ll be part of an expert team of engineers with legacy industry knowledge to rise to the peak of your technical experience [you’ll make comments to the effect of, “the coffee would pour into the glass faster if we could achieve a channel flow condition at roughly 0.9d capacity as opposed to its current full-flow condition”].
- You’re involved in the project lifecycle of planning to final delivery [you get to know exactly when the new Chipotle will open].
- You’ll work with state DOTs (departments of transportation) to develop traffic impact studies and management plans [you’ll know which roads to avoid for the upcoming months].
- You can use the advanced computer aided design software to develop information models of project topography and utilities [your computer runs faster than you do].
- You’ll work on a team with a wide array of industry experts including architects, transportation engineers, geotechnical engineers, and structural engineers [the structural engineers will tell you that despite what you might have heard, a city built on rock and roll is not structurally sound].
- You’ll interact one-on-one with the community to reach development goals and address citizen concerns and proposals [a cat park—whatever you say!].
- You’ll apply engineering foresight to everyday situations [the glass isn’t half empty…or half full. It’s twice as large as it needs to be to contain the specified volume of liquid].
- You’ll work with advanced analytical engineering models that make use of the latest technology advances to encourage networking and collaborative engineering design [you and your clients now follow each other on Twitter].
- You can relate geeky engineering talk to popular movies: “Once, we were doing a practice presentation on someone’s laptop, but it didn’t have the software we needed, so we did a remote desktop to another laptop to move some files, and then from there another remote desktop to another computer to use the files with an application… it was like a very geeky version of Inception” [c’mon, that’s funny!].
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