Transportation: Civil Engineering and Arizona State University
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Right from my early days, if there is something which mesmerized me, then it has to be huge structures like railroads, airports, highways and all such Mega Structures. After I grew up, I learnt that all my areas of interest coincided with what the course of Civil Engineering offered. This made Civil Engineering as my obvious choice for under-graduation. I worked hard towards my interest and secured admission into Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad which is one of the premier technical institutions of the country.
In my quest for deciding what course to pursue, I also did a 6-week internship with Larsen & Toubro limited, at their under-construction ICICI Bank building (Composite Structure). Here, I was thoroughly exposed and actively involved in the various stages of construction, i.e. Planning, Field Execution, Safety Measures and Quality Control. This gave me a very good and generic idea on Civil Engineering projects, right from when it is conceived to the finishing stages.
What drew my interest to Transportation Engineering for the first time was the Traffic snarls enroute my travel from home to work place during the internship. I hail from Hyderabad, the capital city of the state of Andhra Pradesh and one of the fastest growing metropolis of the country. In the first quarter of my course, I traveled by public transport and the last three quarters on my motor-bike. All these four years, if there was something which had a huge impact on my psyche then it has to be the “grossly neglected and inadequate public transport” and “poorly traffic-engineered roads”.
The beauty and importance of Transportation lies in the fact that it has a marked effect on the day-to-day lives of millions of people residing in cities worldwide. Today’s cities are getting badly entangled in problems of inadequate transport infrastructure. This is causing several losses both in terms of time and money which in turn has adverse
Right from my early days, if there is something which mesmerized me, then it has to be huge structures like railroads, airports, highways and all such Mega Structures. After I grew up, I learnt that all my areas of interest coincided with what the course of Civil Engineering offered. This made Civil Engineering as my obvious choice for under-graduation. I worked hard towards my interest and secured admission into Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad which is one of the premier technical institutions of the country.
In my quest for deciding what course to pursue, I also did a 6-week internship with Larsen & Toubro limited, at their under-construction ICICI Bank building (Composite Structure). Here, I was thoroughly exposed and actively involved in the various stages of construction, i.e. Planning, Field Execution, Safety Measures and Quality Control. This gave me a very good and generic idea on Civil Engineering projects, right from when it is conceived to the finishing stages.
What drew my interest to Transportation Engineering for the first time was the Traffic snarls enroute my travel from home to work place during the internship. I hail from Hyderabad, the capital city of the state of Andhra Pradesh and one of the fastest growing metropolis of the country. In the first quarter of my course, I traveled by public transport and the last three quarters on my motor-bike. All these four years, if there was something which had a huge impact on my psyche then it has to be the “grossly neglected and inadequate public transport” and “poorly traffic-engineered roads”.
The beauty and importance of Transportation lies in the fact that it has a marked effect on the day-to-day lives of millions of people residing in cities worldwide. Today’s cities are getting badly entangled in problems of inadequate transport infrastructure. This is causing several losses both in terms of time and money which in turn has adverse