Create Your Future 2022 - Civil Engineering

Russell Shaffer Author

11/01/2021 Added

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UNL's Rural Fellowship interns use their education and majors in civil engineering to help strengthen and develop Nebraska's rural communities. Apply now to be a Rural Fellow for summer 2022 at https://ruralprosperityne.unl.edu/rural-fellows

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[00:00:10.090]Through the Rural Prosperity Nebraska program,
[00:00:12.790]I was able to work in the water utilities department
[00:00:15.310]and gain hands-on experience
[00:00:16.880]with the utilities we use every day.
[00:00:19.090]My role in the beginning stages of this project was
[00:00:21.540]to collect data for the city and JEO,
[00:00:24.360]which is a local engineering firm founded in Wahoo.
[00:00:27.360]I walked around town locating curb stops
[00:00:29.340]and water valves using a device called a geode,
[00:00:31.900]which uses satellites to pinpoint your location
[00:00:34.150]within a foot.
[00:00:35.290]Then, I uploaded this data into a website called gWorks.
[00:00:38.600]I ended up locating roughly 115 curb stops
[00:00:41.670]and 60 water valves.
[00:00:43.410]The level of design that we are getting
[00:00:46.040]on our future water improvements downtown
[00:00:48.100]is much greater than we normally have
[00:00:49.760]on a project this size.
[00:00:51.230]Also, the communication with business owners
[00:00:53.260]is greater than we typically see.
[00:00:56.010]We're hoping that this level of design and this level
[00:00:58.940]of communication will help mitigate any miscommunications
[00:01:02.820]while we look to replace a good portion
[00:01:06.150]of our water main infrastructure downtown in the 2022 year.
[00:01:10.322]As a working civil engineer,
[00:01:12.370]I can use this knowledge when designing projects
[00:01:14.390]and consulting with businesses.
[00:01:16.330]The hands-on and shadowing experience I had
[00:01:18.660]from this opportunity was far more enriching
[00:01:20.840]than merely hearing about it in a class.
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