List of Contributions

Mr. Christopher Mark Seigel, P.E., M.ASCE

Contact Details

Contact information, job title, education, and license are populated by the ASCE Membership database. You can edit your account here. Please allow 12 hours for the changes to appear in ASCE Collaborate. 

Mr. Christopher Seigel, P.E., M.ASCE


My Content

1 to 20 of 50+ total

RE: ASCE Resume Workshop - Spring 2023

Posted By Christopher Seigel 03-27-2023 08:02 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Hi Jose, To answer the question about your Master's, I agree with you that it would be a good thing to note somewhere. And I appreciate your desire to keep the formatting neat. One option may be to simply shorten each line. For example, on my own resume, it is laid out as follows: MS Civil Engineering ...

RE: ASCE Resume Workshop - Spring 2023

Posted By Christopher Seigel 03-27-2023 08:02 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Hi Alexander.  You have a good resume. It is clean and easy to read. Your format is good and the sentences are short and to the point. There are not many changes I'd suggest and these are up to you.  You can consider an "Objective" section at the top stating your goal. In this section you can personalize ...

RE: ASCE Resume Workshop - Spring 2023

Posted By Christopher Seigel 03-27-2023 08:01 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Hi Brayan, I am going to suggest that you change a few things.  You might want to consider having a resume with fewer colors, since these may not print correctly at many companies. I respect wanting to stand out, but its okay if you leave your resume black and white.  Your introduction is good, ...

RE: Giving Interns Meaningful Experience

Posted By Christopher Seigel 03-25-2023 08:49 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Hi Brayan,  I'm sorry but I don't live in Texas and don't have any knowledge of what local internship opportunities there might be. There are some other threads on this forum that provide tips for where to get started, or you can post a new thread and ask about it. Otherwise I would suggest starting ...

RE: Internship Value

Posted By Christopher Seigel 03-10-2023 07:56 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
About 10 years ago, I emailed a person on my city council asking about trash truck routes for an environmental engineering class project. The council person responded via their work email, which happened to be an engineering company. I followed up and asked if they could use an intern for the summer. ...

Giving Interns Meaningful Experience

Posted By Christopher Seigel 02-27-2023 12:12 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
There seem to be a lot of different opinions on what an internship SHOULD be. To some people, it is as hands-off as shadowing someone and seeing what different people at a company do day-to-day. To others, it is essentially the same thing as receiving full-time entry-level work. Some of this is driven ...

RE: Drinking on the job

Posted By Christopher Seigel 02-23-2023 12:31 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Rare was the day I'd get through my entire 32 ounce water bottle. More so in the summer, especially if half of it was ice. However, the more you drink, the more you are forced to take short walking breaks to the bathroom. I see this as a win-win. ------------------------------ Christopher Seigel P.E., ...

RE: Mid-Level AppliCANT or CAN?

Posted By Christopher Seigel 01-26-2023 01:38 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
I've been on a few mid-level interviews in the past year. My take is that the interviewer expects you to be able to discuss your current work and work history. As the person being interviewed, I also think its reasonable for you to ask about the following things: level of responsibility you will ...

RE: PE Exam Prep Materials - Differences between CBT and Pen-Paper Formats

Posted By Christopher Seigel 01-24-2023 04:39 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Thanks. Sounds like that is one thing that didn't change. I don't think the physical reference manual was much help with concept questions either. However, I did occasionally find something in my textbook that (I think) helped me find the correct answer. Which is the resource that you and future engineers ...

ChatGPT - its value and concerns within the industry

Posted By Christopher Seigel 01-18-2023 08:33 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
I am curious as to who has used or interacted with Chat GPT. If you have no idea what this is, check out this article by business insider: If you still aren't sure what ChatGPT is, this is your guide to the viral chatbot that everyone is talking about or better yet, try it yourself at OpenAI I myself ...

RE: Entry-Level Interview Questions

Posted By Christopher Seigel 01-18-2023 08:32 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
A lot of great answers here. I would agree that most companies will appreciate that you are interviewing them just as much as the other way around. Not only is it acceptable, I would say its preferable because it shows the candidate wants to be selective in their own job choosing, is able to think, and ...

RE: PE Exam Prep Materials - Differences between CBT and Pen-Paper Formats

Posted By Christopher Seigel 01-18-2023 12:46 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Thanks Armando (and Madison for starting this topic) Did you feel that any knowledge from resources outside of the searchable PDF were required for the CBT? Such as the codes or standards you referenced?  I took the pen and paper test a few years ago and recall having most of what I needed in the CERM ...

RE: Company holiday events: dos and don'ts

Posted By Christopher Seigel 12-28-2022 01:35 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
I imagine that finding the right balance for the seating was tricky since some people might know everyone and others might not know anyone, but I really like the intentionality of the idea. A +1 is always nice too. I don't usually use that benefit either since I'm pretty comfortable without it but I ...

Company holiday events: dos and don'ts

Posted By Christopher Seigel 12-16-2022 03:50 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
By now it is likely that most of us have been involved in some sort of holiday party hosted by an employer. I thought it might be interesting to hear about some holiday party success stories and some lessons learned as well. This post can apply to holiday parties, gift-giving stories, bonuses, etc. ...

RE: Thanksgiving in December

Posted By Christopher Seigel 12-12-2022 10:31 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
I can think of at least two coworkers who try to make answering my questions a priority even if the questions are frustrating and even if they are busy with other things that require more time. Its been tougher due to remote work to focus on the human aspect of these things but I think this is a good ...

Supporting a co-worker who is going through a difficult time

Posted By Christopher Seigel 12-04-2022 11:04 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Working with someone who is going through a difficult time can be challenging. The types of situations I am thinking of could be a coworker who has suffered an illness or death in the family, had to undergo a surgery or serious medical procedure, or is simply new to the job and the area, and moved there ...

RE: Video Conferencing Etiquette

Posted By Christopher Seigel 11-22-2022 08:14 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Now that about two years has passed since this topic was posted, I wonder if anyone has made any changes in their habits?  I still think the nuances of digital culture and manners are funny this far into having remote meetings. The unnecessary complexities of my own habits in these rituals is not lost ...

RE: So Organized that it's Disorganized

Posted By Christopher Seigel 11-11-2022 05:50 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
I've only been using the service for a few months now and thankfully have not needed to replace any bad hard drives during that time. Its my understanding that you can retrieve the backup from the cloud, or you can put down a deposit and they will mail you a physical hard drive containing your data that ...

RE: So Organized that it's Disorganized

Posted By Christopher Seigel 11-10-2022 07:23 AM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Hey guys, I recently started using Backblaze. Its a subscription service to unlimited cloud storage for one PC. I'm not a fan of subscriptions but all things considered, I find this one worth it as I think it is about $7 a month. The way it works is that it makes a copy of every file on your computer, ...

RE: Happy 170th birthday, ASCE!

Posted By Christopher Seigel 11-06-2022 06:57 PM
Found In Egroup: Career By Design \ view thread
Thanks for sharing! That sounds like a great example of going the extra mile and making improvements to the work of those who came before you. ------------------------------ Christopher Seigel P.E., M.ASCE Civil Engineer ------------------------------