Summer Engineering Intern

Posted on: 2008-09-14

Pavani Silaparasetty 401 Stasney Street, Apt# 509 ♦ College Station, TX- 77840 ♦ [email protected] OBJECTIVE:Seeking full-time position from January 2009 in the field of Environmental Engineering. EDUCATION: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Dec 2008 Master of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering; GPA: 3.0 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Osmania University, India Jun 2007 Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering; GPA: 3.16 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Summer Engineering Intern, Carollo Engineers, P.C., Dallas, TX Jun – Aug 2008  Assisted Professional Engineers with projects: Panther Creek WWTP Expansion, Jefferson Street WTP Disinfection Facilities. ـ Cost Estimation of different options for new pipelines for disinfection building. ـ Containment Calculations to check for compliance with TCEQ regulations. ـ Back Checks, Submittal, O&M Manual Review.  Organized schedule sheets and work plans for new project proposals.  Contributed to reports by researching and preparing short summaries.  Field Visit organized by CEC Dallas Chapter: Participated in the tour of J.Lindsay Embrey Engineering Bldg., SMU, Dallas, which is of LEED gold standards. RELEVANT COURSEWORK: Directed Studies: Study of Degradation of Pharmaceuticals in Sewer Systems - Assisting PhD candidate in developing a model that represents a sewer system to help understand the degradation of 54 (selected) pharmaceuticals. - The goal is to categorize the pharmaceuticals depending on their degradability and then design a pre-treatment facility resulting in lower loads of pharmaceuticals on the WWTP. Courses: Environmental Engineering Processes (Physical, Chemical and Biological), Engineering Analysis of Treatment Systems, Environmental Risk Assessment, Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Introduction to GIS, Environmental Control of Oil and Hazardous Materials. TECHNICAL SKILLS:AutoCAD, ArcView GIS 9.2, MS-DOS, Windows-95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista. PROJECTS: Texas A&M University Feb-Apr 2008 Human Health Risk Assessment of North Cavalcade Street  Determined the exposure point concentrations of 29 chemicals that were present on the site.  Performed risk assessment of exposed populations and determined lifetime cancer and non-cancer risk.  Used the IEUBK model to estimate the blood level concentrations of lead to determine if the site was safe due to lead. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Osmania University Mar 2007 Study on Reduction of Heavy Metals from Bulk Drug and Electroplating Industrial Effluents using Adsorption  Studied the capacity and the efficiency of the adsorbents in adsorbing the heavy metals (Zn, Fe, Cr and Cu) from the effluents. Indicated the optimal mixture of the effluents.  Gained efficiency in handling Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) while determining the concentrations of the heavy metals from the effluent. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad,India Dec 2006 Establishment of Ground Control Points using Global Positioning System (GPS)  Developed a network of ground control points over an area of 180 sq. kms, which will be used in developing topological maps. CERTIFICATION: - Scheduled to take the E.I.T exam in October 2008. - Working towards Hazardous Waste Management certification and will obtain it by Jan 2009. ACTIVITIES: Texas A&M University  Volunteered for the Student Research Week (SRW) Mar 2008  Field Visit: Carter’s Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Oct 2007 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, India  Organized technical symposium called Civilizations ‘07. Handled accommodation for 25 delegates.  Member of the publicity and funds team for fest called Carpedium in 2006.  Filed Visits: Asifnagar filter beds (WTP) and Wastewater Treatment Plant. Mar 2006  Winner in the University Sports Meet in shuttle badminton (doubles). Mar 2004 MEMBERSHIP:American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association 2008 WORK AUTHORIZATION:Eligible Practical Training, Visa type: F1.