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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: ASCE Resume Workshop - Fall 2023

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-17-2023 10:18 AM
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Hello David, Thank you very much for finding my "blogs" here on ASCE. Although I needed to stop and focus on my first full-time job here in Indiana, I hope to continue helping ASCE directly down the road. I have been thinking about how soon to take the PE Exam, but I did not consider ...

RE: ASCE Resume Workshop - Fall 2023

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-13-2023 09:16 PM
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I have attached my resume. Thank you so much for this review! ------------------------------ Alexander Granato Transportation Planning Engineer Indianapolis IN [email protected] A.M.ASCE ------------------------------

RE: ASCE Resume Workshop - Fall 2023

Posted By Alexander Granato 11-13-2023 06:38 PM
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RE: Office vs. Virtual Onboarding: Comparing Processes for Welcoming New Staff

Posted By Alexander Granato 06-25-2023 05:16 PM
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During my first week, I spent every work day in the office to finish preparing for the job. I am a hybrid worker, so I needed to set up a desk over there and take equipment back to my apartment. During that time, I received a lot of introductions. I was meeting members of staff, downloading ...

RE: Re-examining Employee Compensation in a 4-Day Work Week

Posted By Alexander Granato 06-19-2023 12:55 PM
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The company I work for found a workaround regarding tracking productivity in projects instead of salary. The group of workers I'm in has a weekly Staff Meeting where we catch up on activity from the previous week. There, we all state our billiability (work hours spent working or with paid leave out of ...

RE: Giving Interns Meaningful Experience

Posted By Alexander Granato 06-11-2023 10:52 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: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Posted By Alexander Granato 06-05-2023 11:00 AM
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At first, I see a lot of pros with this concept: It accounts for the fact that escalating CO2 admissions are entering and affecting the seas, not just the air around us It isolates the effects of this added chemical from the seas down to small solid areas After effects of this removal ...

RE: ChatGPT - its value and concerns within the industry

Posted By Alexander Granato 05-28-2023 10:54 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, ...

RE: Balancing Cybersecurity and Workflow: What Are the Trade-Offs?

Posted By Alexander Granato 05-21-2023 10:37 AM
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During my first few months at my current job, I was not living up to cybersecurity tests. There was roughly one email a week designed to test my insight for email red flags. Since I was putting too much trust in the company, I clicked on them, and received additional cybersecurity training to work through. ...

Minorities in Engineering Projects

Posted By Alexander Granato 05-01-2023 08:02 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: EIT Positions Requiring Experience

Posted By Alexander Granato 04-24-2023 08:05 AM
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Hello Christian, To get those 1-2 years of experience that entry-level positions expect, I got part-time positions at the universities I attended. Some of these were paid positions as a Research Assistant for on-campus staff over the years; and one was unpaid research directly under a professor to ...

RE: Entry-Level Interview Questions

Posted By Alexander Granato 04-16-2023 11:09 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: Factors impacting work environment

Posted By Alexander Granato 04-10-2023 10:46 AM
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Now that I'm over a month into a full-time job, I will update my answer: - Figure out whom I will meet with the most. In a small company like this one, it's to our benefit that we are all on good terms. - It takes kindness and consideration from both ends to keep workflow efficient. We are all human, ...

RE: What's the one tool you can't live without when doing your day-to-day job?

Posted By Alexander Granato 04-02-2023 03:28 PM
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Now that I have had a full-time job for one month, I couldn't do it without: ArcGIS/Pro: Analyze data and locations for corridors TransCAD: Mark freeways and insert data for them Notepad: Keep track of work times Google Calendar: Keep track of phases of projects (and their deadlines) ---- ...

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. ...

RE: How Exact is Time = Money?

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-19-2023 08:19 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: Study of Professional Engineers

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-12-2023 12:57 PM
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Hello Kyle, I remember approaching a cinematic analysis of both doing bad things for good reasons, and doing good things for bad reasons: https://youtu.be/6ddHGpQm9oE Vince Gillian seems to be a master at showing how it's a slippery slope to take shortcuts or destroy anything, because ...

RE: Internship Value

Posted By Alexander Granato 03-05-2023 09:53 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: A 4-Day Work Week?

Posted By Alexander Granato 02-28-2023 02:52 PM
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During my previous summer job as a Student Research Assistant, I decided that every week, I would not work on Wednesdays. This worked very well for me, because doing the job fully online allowed me to return home after two semesters of classes, and catch up with my family and health appointments. From ...

RE: Personal Project Tracking

Posted By Alexander Granato 02-23-2023 08:00 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 ...