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An Ethnic Journey To Civil Engineering
The purpose of this blog is to share my continuing professional development during the entirety of my civil Engineering journey. You would get glimpses of my day-to-day involvement in various projects. The various departments and teams involved in delivering successful projects. More importantly, the mistakes and challenges encountered as a Civil Engineer and how they are tackled. I work in the Civil Engineering transports sector – Highways (roads & bridges), Aviation, and Rail.
In addition, Civil Engineering isn’t just about being a project manager, contract manager, or site Engineer. There’s more to the industry you could navigate if those roles do not float your boat. To find out more.. stay with me on this journey and see how my career evolves. See the lists of blogs below:
Concrete Cubes; Not Sugar Cubes
Do you remember the white sugar cubes our old fashion parents/relatives used to drop into the oceans of their tea or coffee? Now picture those in a much bigger size but made from sand, cement, stones, and water. As a result, those mixtures combined give us a material commonly known as concrete. You scoop the…
The Need For Placement or Gap year.
The year 2018-19 saw over 20 applications sent out in order to secure a placement opportunity, within my industry. A few interviews, many Noes and one YES. The year 2017 was a year of risk. I took the risk to study Civil Engineering at university without a fully comprehensive outlook of the bigger picture. My…
Graduate Development Session – Skern Lodge
As part of our Graduate development scheme, we get to explore and be exposed to the benefits of continuing & on-going learning cycle. A cycle that introduces us into the logistics, tools, direction and skills of the industry as well as getting soaked into the company values & vision. Most importantly, the interaction between different…
Degree Apprenticeship
A 2017 throwback of me working on an individual project during my last year at college, before going to university. I spent 4 years in college (Level 1-4). When I moved to the UK at age 17 my academic background didn’t translate to that of UK’s. Hence, I had to settle down for a course…
The Phone Call
“Hello is this, Mohamed? she asked “, yes! I replied. “You applied for a student Engineering placement role with us, and I was wondering if you are still interested?”. Believe it or not my response was – which one? Silly, isn’t it? Perhaps over the course of 10 months I had applied for more than…
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