Chi Epsilon

On October 1st, our members gathered at Armstrong Hall to collect trash that had been littered throughout TCNJ’s campus. In order to complete their volunteer hours, new members  and associate members walked along side e-board members for two hours. The members were split into two groups of five and walked along the loop and sidewalks of the campus. From 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM, our members were able to fill up plenty of trash bags! Starting off a Sunday right by giving back to our college community!

Two of our members, Tommy and Steven, dedicated their time today to volunteer at a local orchard. Our members helped the orchards during one of their family fun festivals. Since this is a very popular day for the orchards, our members helped ring up customers at the pick-your-own apples station. We hope to continue working closely and volunteering with Terhune every fall!

One Saturday 9/9 members from our Founding class attended the Student Organization Summit in the Brower Student Center. The Student Organization Summit (SOS) is a place for student leaders to network with one another, meet other TCNJ personnel, and learn about best practices! After attending various sessions, our members were provided with the knowledge of resources that will help them succeed in their roles and advance the Civil Engineering Honor Society at TCNJ!

Mickey Avenoso, the Vice President of the Honor Society, has started 3 organizations on campus during his 3 years at TCNJ.  The first was a revolutionary club called American Veterans Club, which focuses on raising money for veterans and spreading awareness for their quality of life after serving.  The second is the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, a national fraternity with over 130 chapters nationwide.  The Civil Engineering Honor Society is the third organization that Mickey has created at TCNJ.

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Charlotte has a site civil internship with Bohler Engineering this summer out of the Warren, NJ office.  As part of the site development work, her daily tasks include site plan preparation, cost estimates, and the occasional site visit.  Along with her construction estimation and design skills, she is mastering AutoCAD by preparing numerous concepts and exhibits for different clients.

This summer Steve is an intern field engineer at CCA Civil’s Pulaski Skyway bridge deck rehabilitation project.  His day to day work includes inspecting the safety shield underneath the bridge and performing concrete quantity takeoffs.  Along with these responsibilities he assists other field engineers with their tasks such as field verifying design specifications and dealing with non-compliance reports.  In addition he helped monitor elevation changes at CCA Civil’s Wittpenn bridge concrete deck pour(s).  At CCA Civil, Stephen has gained experience by seeing the teamwork and skills it takes to manage a large construction project.

Mickey is currently interning with the Amtrak Track Department in Philadelphia. The experience that Mickey has gained includes work in design, construction management, and research. Mickey has played a key role in pedestal liner research conducted by Virginia Tech. He has analyzed data from old experiments and is currently designing an improved experiment to better prove the hypothesis of VT. Mickey has also made multiple visits to the New York Penn Station renewal project that Amtrak is working on until September 10th. Amtrak sends Mickey into the field at least twice a week to supervise construction or collect data for the design work done in the office.

This summer Anthony is an intern with EIC Group LLC. He is using the design knowledge he has gained at the Civil Engineering department @TCNJ to help design mostly temporary but also a few permanent structural and geotechnical structures around New Jersey and New York. EIC group LLC is located in Fairfield, NJ. EIC provides Structural and Civil Professional Engineering and Land Surveying services focused on the heavy highway construction industry throughout the nation, and at the residential and commercial market in the New York metropolitan area. Anthony is a great asset to the firm and is gaining a lot of experience that will surely help in the future.

Nick is spending an exciting summer at the FHWA Turner Fairbank Research Center as Geotechnical Research Intern in the STIPDG (Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups) program. He is involved in research on geosynthetic textiles and roadway subbase properties. Besides day-to-day work at the office, the program provides field trips to different museums of transportation systems (marine, air, rail) and exclusive tours through DOTHQ and The Pentagon. Nick will complete his internship by writing a research paper.