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Kenmore civil engineer who started as an intern discusses work, ADA project and advice to students
Summary
Lucas Fowler, who began as a University of Washington intern, accepted a full-time civil-engineer position with the City of Kenmore. He described learning traffic engineering on the job, the challenges and rewards of small-city work, and his role on a local ADA accessibility project.
Lucas Fowler, a civil engineer for the City of Kenmore, described how a college internship led to a full-time municipal engineering job and said he is currently working on a local Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility project.
Fowler told host Amber Clifton on the City of Kenmore podcast that he found the internship through his college email while a student at the University of Washington and worked part time during school to see what area of civil engineering he wanted to pursue. "I learned a lot of traffic engineering," Fowler said, explaining that much of his on-the-job learning involved communicating with team members, the public and the city council.
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