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Mr. Alexander V. Granato, A.M.ASCE

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Indianapolis, IN
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Mr. Alexander Granato, A.M.ASCE


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RE: Giving Interns Meaningful Experience

Posted By Alexander Granato 06-11-2023 10:51 AM
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As an intern across universities, what I enjoyed was getting a glimpse of what the real world would be like regarding workloads and projects. Each week involved the same primary responsibilities and meeting with the same people, but I received a new project from time to time that matched my skillset. ...

RE: ChatGPT - its value and concerns within the industry

Posted By Alexander Granato 05-28-2023 10:53 AM
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"ChatGPT and other text-generating bots aren't intended to be correct or honest about anything"?? That reminds me of how a version of ChatGPT designed for Snapchat is turning out: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tWDAmElb22Q I also think the squandering potential of this AI is a two-sided coin. Already, ...

Minorities in Engineering Projects

Posted By Alexander Granato 05-01-2023 08:01 AM
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While I was working on my Capstone Project, I was on a team of six, with only one girl throughout the entire year. We did not ever bring this up to each other, although the class did have a sufficient male-to-female ratio. Now that I'm working full-time, I am working between three projects involving ...

RE: Entry-Level Interview Questions

Posted By Alexander Granato 04-16-2023 11:08 AM
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Hello everyone, I have followed several of these example preparations for interviews myself over the years, and I think they have been pretty helpful. A good intuition on what questions to expect from the interviewer, along with pages of notes has allowed me to work through provide plenty of personal, ...

RE: Video Conferencing Etiquette

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-26-2023 10:16 AM
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Hello Chris, I have been keeping my camera on at all my meetings. Since everyone else has theirs on for these weekly meetings, I come prepared to take notes and contribute what I need to each time. On another note, no one has mentioned etiquette about leaving a microphone on yet. Having been a ...

RE: How Exact is Time = Money?

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-19-2023 08:18 PM
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I'm using BST to log all my hours into, and I'm using mostly the same strategy you had as an intern. However, I reach the office slightly before 9:00 am so that I can go over emails and other concerns before I start tracking times on my Notepad. That way, I can focus one project or meeting at a time, ...

RE: Internship Value

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-05-2023 09:52 PM
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My most valuable lesson as an intern was how the transition from classes to work would focus on projects. While working as a Student Utilities Assistant, I was entrusted with various projects, like setting up light sensors around the office, and co-predicting energy usage for a year. Although I had weekly ...

RE: Personal Project Tracking

Posted By Alexander Granato 02-23-2023 07:59 AM
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Hello Heidi, I've come to realize that companies consider employee's resumes a database for relevant work history and skills. To that end, I have a resume that serves as a database to every piece work history I have collected since high school. On that resume, every piece of work history is written ...

RE: The ART of Engineering

Posted By Alexander Granato 02-12-2023 04:23 PM
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Ever since the summer of 2021, I switched from photo-manipulation to videos for artwork. Andn the months that passed, what type of video tended to switch based on ideas typed down and time available. Here is my final project in the class that inspired me (reposted after April 2019): https://youtu ...

RE: The Value of Interviewing When You Don't Want A New Job

Posted By Alexander Granato 01-22-2023 01:54 PM
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Hello Christopher, I have always thought of interviewing as the time to seek a job. Due to the time I have sent so far attending universities and career fairs, I have considered the last several years time to either work at a job, look for a job, or work as a full-time student. To that end, now that ...

RE: 2023 New Years Resolution

Posted By Alexander Granato 01-15-2023 11:03 AM
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My New Year's resolutions are to 1) find a full-time job, now that I have graduated again; and 2) to take every chance I get to reconnect with family. A potential third is to reach the requirements for fulfilling a PE exam. ------------------------------ Alexander Granato A.M.ASCE Student Bexley OH ...

RE: Best ways to learn new material

Posted By Alexander Granato 12-04-2022 12:22 PM
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Hello Samantha, I seem to be both late to this party, and early for the next one. Although studying in a group has helped me get through homework problems that I was stuck on, it was important to me to do the work first. When I was still getting my Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, it could be ...

RE: Non-Engineer Mentors

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-21-2022 09:53 AM
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During my time obtaining my Master's degree, I've been meeting up with a colleague who is also working towards Statistics-Analytics. Although he has more experience than me, that isn't for Civil Engineering, he's been showing me more lessons about long-term insight outside of work. I have been as devoted ...

RE: Happy 170th birthday, ASCE!

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-07-2022 11:46 AM
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You're very welcome, Christopher! I'm glad you remembered it was ASCE day over the weekend. ------------------------------ Alexander Granato A.M.ASCE Student Bexley OH [email protected] ------------------------------

RE: Happy 170th birthday, ASCE!

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-06-2022 10:29 AM
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While I was working as a Student Utilities Assistant, I had a weekly responsibility of keeping a database up-to-date with all the hundreds of monthly energy bills a campus gets. We had documents containing instructions for all of the places and times of the month to check, and the database itself was ...

RE: So Organized that it's Disorganized

Posted By Alexander Granato 10-30-2022 11:24 AM
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The organization I've been using for all my classes involved two-way organization and memory. Every time I finished a semester, the content of my classes would be split into digital and physical format, so that I would have one copy of each important document. The physical documents were kept inside ...

RE: Favorite Halloween Costumes

Posted By Alexander Granato 10-30-2022 11:23 AM
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I don't remember how many, but we still have all kinds of caps kept away. ------------------------------ Alexander Granato A.M.ASCE Student Bexley OH [email protected] ------------------------------

RE: Favorite Halloween Costumes

Posted By Alexander Granato 10-23-2022 10:35 AM
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It's been years since anyone in my family celebrated Halloween, so it's also been years since any of us dressed up. I do remember dressing as a cap salesman character, though, one of the last times. ------------------------------ Alexander Granato A.M.ASCE Student Bexley OH gra[email protected] ...

RE: Value and Use of Professional Social Media Accounts

Posted By Alexander Granato 10-02-2022 11:49 AM
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LinkedIn is one of my "professional" social media accounts as well. It's how I am following dozens of companies I have met with at numerous Career Fairs, and how I stay connected to over one hundred students and professions I have met with over the years. I am so glad I managed to turn off the notifications ...

RE: A Child's Vision/Version of Success

Posted By Alexander Granato 09-25-2022 11:45 AM
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When I was that young, my attention was divided between school work, some after school activates like building with Knex and playing piano, and playing video games. To that end, my vision of success was having a lasting impact on the world around me, such as a record, or other grand achievement. My ...