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JASON LOOMIS

Internship Field: Civil Engineering

Major: Civil Engineering

Host: Hochtief Construction AG

Location: Essen

Duration: 3 months in summer 2003

 

Description: Infrastructure development in Greece: toll road system, CAD planning of roads, including bridges and tunnels.

My main project was a pre-tender information gathering project for the Maliakos-Kleidi Motorway project in Greece. I and the others involved in the project filtered through the information we received from Greece regarding the project and made

I ... learned a lot about dealing with the problems of an international project...

preliminary assessments of this information and made it available to the people who needed it. I spent most of my time going over electronic documents received (CAD files for AutoCAD) and assessing their content, summarizing, and plotting them. I also was tasked with finding information where it was lacking (documents like seismic codes, etc.). I did not have any involvement with any actual engineering analysis, however. I was given small parts for other projects as well, measurement and assessment of plans for a golf course/ resort project, and did some analysis of time expenditure for a series of other projects.

The time I spent assessing the plans that we had received and doing AutoCAD summary drawings and plots was very valuable...

Comments: The time I spent assessing the plans that we had received and doing AutoCAD summary drawings and plots was very valuable as it was education that is not a large part of Stanford's civil engineering program, but is useful as practical experience. I also learned a lot about dealing with the problems of an international project, and about the pre-tender course of a (roadway) project. /.../ Being assigned to Hochtief Consult, and moreso just to the city of Essen, where I would be completely away from everyone in the program and suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar place was actually very rewarding for me, as it proved to be a Major confidence boost as I figured out how to handle everything and rely on myself to make my way".

For further information, please write to loomis@stanford.edu

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