Morgan Joel, PE

Experience

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  San Diego County Fair

  May 2012 - Jul 2012

  Fair Ambassador

  o Tended to customer needs and developed interpersonal skills.

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  Purdue University

  Aug 2012 - May 2015

  Peer Teacher

  o Provide direction, training, and leadership for eight teams of four first year engineering students.o Selected to lead an on camera interview for the First Year Engineering department.o Led a team of five engineering students develop a video for the National Academy of Engineering contest.o Grade papers and act as the professor’s liaison for the students. Work roughly eight to twelve hours per week.

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  Burns & McDonnell

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Engineering Intern

  o Develop overhead power line systems in the Transmission and Distribution department.o Worked closely with the Department Manager to develop a white page document on structural dynamics.

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  Burns & McDonnell

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Engineering Intern

  o Designed concrete decks and steel girders for bridge structures in the Transportation department.o Submitted permits for local county bridge projects.

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  University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  o Assisted students with course material, developed exams, established homework solutions, and led class instruction. o Facilitated students’ learning as a teaching assistant in undergraduate courses including structural analysis and geotechnical engineering.

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  Kennedy Jenks

  Apr 2017 - Feb 2021

  Staff Engineer

  o Designed concrete, masonry, and steel structures for water and wastewater treatment plants and associated facilities. Projects include concrete reservoirs and water storage tanks, operations and maintenance buildings, and steel shade structures and equipment canopies.o Supported structural engineering services during construction. Services include submittal, shop drawing, and request for information reviews, in field structural observations, and additional client and contractor requests.o Lead structural design representative for construction of a local 5 million gallon capacity concrete reservoir.o Worked in an integral team amongst all disciplines throughout the design process. Show less

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  GHD

  Mar 2021 - now

  Project Engineer - Structures

  o Structural designer and structural lead on multidisciplinary projects for city and federal agencies.o Services include structural design through construction for new and existing structures including buildings, bridges, tanks, buried structures, water conveyance structures, flood control structures, retaining walls, and shade canopies.o Develop contract documents including design specifications, drawings, and cost estimates and provide construction support for all aspects of the structural design.o Provide mentorship and guidance to new hires within the structural group.o Lead design manager on small to medium sized water resource projects tasked with managing scope, schedule, and budget for all disciplines.o Design of precast prestressed concrete bridges in southern California and Guam.o Federal work includes projects with NAVFAC Southwest developing DB request for proposal documents, DBB construction documents, and verification of DD Form 1391 for buildings and waterfront structures. Show less