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Benefits of Student / Industry Internships in 2005
Shane Bennett - Spicer Group, Inc.
Biosystem Engineering Junior
My engineering internship with Spicer Group in St. Johns gave me experience that expanded my understanding of water resource issues. As an engineering intern, I assisted the Governmental Services Group, which provides watershed management engineering design and construction management services to federal, state, and local governments. I also worked with the Surveying Group on projects ranging from simple property surveys to topographic surveys needed for road and bridge design, storm sewer design, and for the mapping of flood prone areas.
My summer began with assisting design engineers with hydrologic analyses needed for the delineation of flood risk areas. This work was commissioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to update their Flood Insurance Studies. I used computer software including AutoCAD, ArcView, HEC HMS, and Excel to analyze digital soils, land use, and topographic data for the production of runoff coefficients, times of concentration, and peak flow hydrographs for riverine systems. These hydrographs are required to develop hydraulic computer models, which are needed for identifying floodplain elevations and flood risk areas.
During the remainder of the summer I served as a survey rodman, collecting topographic survey data required by the engineers for the FEMA floodplain studies and other construction and storm water design projects. I operated survey equipment such as total stations, levels, and Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment and performed ALTA/ACSM surveys and line and grid surveys.
My time at Spicer was great and I feel that I learned a great deal about the industry. It exposed me to technology and engineering techniques needed to design solutions to storm water management problems and to identify flood prone areas.
Spicer Group, Inc. is a full-service engineering, surveying, and planning consulting firm with locations in Saginaw, St. Johns, Caro, and Detroit, Michigan.
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