摘要: |
A "windy road" is how Ana Tijerina Esquino, EIT, A.M.ASCE, describes her route to civil engineering. Instead of going straight to college after high school, she went to work, first in banking and credit administration and then in industrial design. Three and a half years in, she decided she needed to earn a bachelor's degree to continue to progress professionally. Even while in school, at San Diego Community College and then at Portland State University in Oregon, she continued to work. After a series of odd jobs at an acupuncture clinic, a hospital, and finally on campus, she changed her mind, switching from finance to civil engineering. It was the issues of sustainability - the water crisis, the damages of air pollution, and the vulnerabilities of lifeline infrastructure - that captured Tijerina Esquino's attention, and she decided she wanted to spend her life helping solve these big problems. |