As we begin to write this post, we realize almost everyone does one of these. And it has to be the most boring post on each blog. Here we will do as all those before have done: set out our mission statement and the plan for the future. Along the way things may change. So it may be interesting to look back at this first post in a while and see how wrong we were. Or how right.
When any of us start out in a new field, or even a new job, there is a learning curve that must be surmounted. Whether it's new lingo, or new procedures, we feel a little lost at first. At no time is it most intense than when you graduate university and land that first job. This is the start of your career. Your profession. Your livelihood. And you will never be worse at it than you are at that moment...
Some of us are very fortunate. We connect with an excellent company, and work under an extraordinary mentor or with supportive co-workers. We accelerate our learning and never seem to flounder. This is rare. Congratulations if this is you.
Others of us must navigate a dense forest of unknown destinations. We don't know where we're supposed to go next and have no idea how we even got here to this exact place anyway. Requests for help are often enthusiastically answered, but lacking in actual explanation. So now you know what direction to go, but still no idea how far it is and, even worse, what the destination is supposed to look like.
The young engineers of today have many, many tools available to assist in navigating. YouTube and blogs are an indispensable asset that any right-minded engineer would scour for information. The problem is, it's often too specific or too vague, poorly organized, poorly written, or just simply hard to find. We don't propose that our efforts will be any different in the end, but we will strive to meet this lofty goal.
Here we will try to touch on all the major topics of Land Development Civil Engineering. From the basics like best practices for file and drawing organization, to the complex such as Fire System Hydraulic Analysis. It won't happen all at once. We will touch on topics several times building on what we wrote previously. Adding more clarity through examples, charts, diagrams, and videos. Many terms and acronyms will be defined on our
Definitions, Abbreviations, and Acronyms page.
Each post topic will be chosen at first to introduce the main subjects, then broken out into sub-topics on later posts. All posts of a subject will be categorized to make finding and consuming the information as easy as possible. These first posts will be tagged with the "
Lesson 1" label. Check these posts as a sort of introduction post for each topic. These posts will be updated as more posts for that topic are added.
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