RS&H

Senior Internship

RS&H is ranked #48 out of 138,685 Engineering Services businesses in the US. I work 2.5 hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a total of 7.5 hours each school week. Under my mentor, I have been going through different groups in their Atlanta location studying Transportation planning, surveying and roadways, civil engineering, and structural engineering.

RS&H has offered me a summer internship and a paid college internship starting in the fall of 2024. They have also offered me a full-time position as a structural engineer when I graduate from Georgia Tech and have offered to reimburse my master's degree when I am hired full-time.

OpenRoads

I have started learning OpenRoads, a software that allows you to design roads and bridges. In this photo, I learned how to create alignments, profiles, and corridors. The right computer screen shows the 3D road and bridge that I designed.

Horizontal Alignment

The horizontal alignment is the view from above, or the left and right turns of a roadway. Creating a horizontal alignment is the first step in Openroads before you can create a vertical alignment. In the image to the left, the horizontal alignment is the orange line in the middle of the road.

Vertical Alignment

The vertical alignment is the elevation at the beginning of the curve, the grades of the two tangents that are connected, and the length of the curve. In the image, the vertical alignment is the yellow line.

Corridors

This is the corridor I created. At this step of the process, you can decide whether your road/bridge is in an urban or rural area, how many lanes there are, and whether you would like to include other road properties.

3D Model

The center of the 3D model follows the horizontal alignment, while the bridge follows the vertical alignment. The problem with the road was the pit, which is shown as the green line in the image of the vertical alignment. Creating the vertical alignment allows cars to safely drive over the pit. The corridor I chose is a two lane urban road.

Concrete Reviews

These are two images of two different concrete mixes. I had to make sure each company was certified under the category they are listen in under GDOT.

Structural Reviews

This is a trench drain for the Hearts-Field Jackson Airport. I completed a structural review to ensure that the contractor's plan matches that of our structural plan. The goal of the review is to catch errors in measurements or materials. After reviewing and marking up the mistakes in the contractor's packet, the engineer I was working under sent the packet back to the contractors for them to fix and send back again.

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