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Big Buildings in Big City
Chatham Square Branch
33 East Broadway
New York, New York 10002-6804
(212) 964-6598
Saturday, August 13 @ 1:30 PM
Teen Summer Reading Club
Refreshments Served
Professionals with different engineering backgrounds will come together to discuss how their roles can help shape structures, plan roads, or dig tunnels, in the New York City area. Specific projects may be used as a background for a fun-filled interactive session to show you a day in the lives of civil engineers!
PAL facilitators Elaine, Mike, and Pornchai, science professionals, will highlight the opportunities that are available for a career in the technology and engineering fields. Whether you want to meet professionals from the community, explore opportunities in the designing structures, or work in research to expand engineering knowledge, come join the discussion with the PAL facilitators and find out more!
Elaine Gazes has extensive experience in scientific research methodology
and data analysis. She is an adjunct lecturer on statistical concepts
at a prestigious university. She was responsible for several research
projects under faculty supervision at such universities as Cooper Union,
Columbia University, and Brooklyn College.
Elaine completed her undergraduate study in Engineering at Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art (Bachelor of Science, 2001). She
is currently pursing a doctorate degree in Experimental Psychology at
the City University
of New York with full tuition scholarship and teaching fellowship.
Michael Despojado is a senior engineer for a private traffic consulting
company. He has 10 years of experience as a transportation and traffic
engineer. He has worked in both in public and private sectors in the
field of transportation engineering. He primarily focused on major
transit and highway projects, development projects, area wide traffic
planning studies, and environmental impact statements.
He earned a BS Civil Engineering degree from Manhattan College and is
currently a member of Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Pornchai Jiemjitpolchai currently works as an Estimator for a leading
engineering firm. His responsibilities include providing subcontractors
with an analysis of clarification, coordinating tentative delivery
schedules and organizing contact lists. He
also coordinates with designers and fabricators to correct design and
detailing errors.
Pornchai received Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees
in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (Master of Engineering,
2000; Bachelor of Science, 2000).
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