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The First Summer of the Rest of My Life

Posted by kristen
/ April 27, 2012 / Leave a comment

Yesterday, I finished my last class of my undergraduate education. In exactly 2 weeks I will be graduating, with only 4 finals and a handful of projects/papers between me and my bachelors degree. It’s definitely a bittersweet time — I’ve enjoyed my time at USC so much that I’m sad to be leaving, but at the same time I’m excited about where I am headed and I’m ready to move...

Tagged career, Civil Engineering, classes, college, exams, family, fun, Internship, Los Angeles, Study Abroad, summer, travel, USC, Viterbi, Viterbi Summer Overseas
Coolest Class: CE 334 – “The class where you break stuff”

Posted by kristen
/ April 22, 2012 / Leave a comment

One of my favorite classes I took as a civil engineer is CE 334. Technically, it’s called “Mechanical Behavior of Materials” but everyone in the department likes to refer to it as “the class where you break stuff” because the lab component is all about applying load to various materials until they reach failure. We stretch metal until it pulls like taffy and breaks (tensile test), we mix concrete by...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, homework, laboratories, projects
Coolest Class: Building Science!

Posted by natalie
/ April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment

I’ve taken some pretty fun classes at USC, ranging from Italian, a couple of architecture history courses, an introduction to Buddhist literature, a class on American bestselling novels (read about that here), and the sailing course. You can read about Lydia’s and Kristen’s sailing experiences here and here. I think my coolest classes that I have taken here at USC are my Building Science studio courses. I’ve taken two...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, engineering, fun
Women in Engineering

Posted by kristen
/ April 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

When I first started considering engineering, I remember a few different people being surprised at my choice, remarking that there weren’t too many female engineers. Although this seemed like a big deal to those people while they were telling me, I didn’t think much about it. To me it seemed like just another stereotype — probably based on past truths, but not the rule and definitely not reflective of me....

Tagged career, Civil Engineering, classes, college, concerts, engineering, football, friends, fun, Greek Life, homework, movies, music, student organizations, Viterbi, Women in Engineering
Women in Engineering

Posted by natalie
/ April 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

Hi everyone! Hopefully if you are reading this series of blogs on women in engineering, you have already watched the video Emily and I made, where we got a chance to discuss with other women in Viterbi what it means to be a woman engineer. We all have had different expectations and experiences as women in engineering, and I’d like to share mine with you as well. Like most...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, engineering, friends, fun, Greek Life, Society of Women Engineers, student organizations, Viterbi
Civil Engineering in My Own Words!

Posted by maria
/ March 4, 2012 / Leave a comment

When I was interning for SKANSKA over the summer, every day I was sending on the job, I was realizing why I’ve always wanted to be a Civil Engineer. Civil Engineering for me is a field where you work towards the betterment of the physical world but at the same time, while getting the opportunity to interact with people from different disciplines in the process. I very much enjoyed the...

Tagged career, Civil Engineering, Internship, USC, Viterbi
Civil Engineering In My Own Words

Posted by kristen
/ February 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

I’ve blogged about this topic once before, but now that I’m a senior and less than four months away from starting a real job in civil engineering design, I would say that I now have an even better idea of what civil engineering is. Civil engineers are responsible for designing structures (houses, parking garages, bridges), roads and parking lots, water supply and wastewater systems, etc. We don’t usually start from...

Tagged career, Civil Engineering, classes, engineering, Los Angeles, Major, Research, school
Civil Engineering In My Own Words

Posted by natalie
/ February 25, 2012 / Leave a comment

I knew as an incoming freshman to USC that I wanted to study civil engineering. In fact, my major program is one of the main reasons I chose to come to USC. In my first semester at USC I got my first taste of civil engineering through the Design and Planning of Civil Engineering Systems class (CE 106), which is the introduction civil engineering class. Throughout the semester we looked...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, engineering, Society of Women Engineers, student organizations
Building Science Update

Posted by natalie
/ February 18, 2012 / Leave a comment

Hi everyone! I am writing this blog from a hotel in Santa Barbara – my lacrosse team is up here for Presidents’ Day Weekend to play in the Santa Barbara Shootout tournament. We have four games this weekend, and the weather is gorgeous! Look out for pictures next week! For the past six weeks my Building Science studio class has been working on a project studying and drawing the...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, engineering, fun, homework
Spring Semester ’12: At a Glance

Posted by natalie
/ January 28, 2012 / Leave a comment

After only 3 weeks of classes the new spring semester is already in full swing! Everything is going well so far, and I’m enjoying my new classes and all the events the organizations I am involved with have planned for this spring. I am especially enjoying the incredible 75 degree weather and gorgeous days we have had in LA for the last week. It makes it slightly harder to concentrate...

Tagged Civil Engineering, classes, college, engineering, friends, fun, Sorority, sports, student organizations, USC