23. The Co-op Experience – Abby Crocker and Lindsay Parker

Continuing The Co-op Experience interviews from the last episode, Jon Camburn interviews SME Co-ops Abby Crocker (Western Michigan University) and Lindsay Parker (Western Michigan University), who share their summer experiences with SME's Co-op program.

Are you trying to figure out if civil or environmental engineering is for you? The best way to do that is hands-on, real-life experience. Jon Camburn interviews SME Co-ops Aidan Funk (University of Toledo) and Enock Rwigenza (Indiana State University), who share their summer experiences with SME's Co-op program.

Wes Hemp, PE, PG, LEED AP (SME) and his old friend and client, Justin Ramirez, PE (Lochmueller Group), reminisce about the time they stumbled across steam coming out of the ground below a WWTP project, discovering what was below, and solutions to the problem.

In our third episode, Jason Cheney, Dave Guevara and Bret Stuntz are back to tackle insurance recovery and alternative funding methods for brownfields projects.

Jason Cheney, Bret Stuntz, Dave Guevara, and Arthur Siegal are back on the Build+Revitalize podcast series on the importance of environmental due diligence. They are picking up where they left off, with a conversation about the importance of due care and how to avoid the risks associated with property acquisition.

The Build+Revitalize podcast is back with a look at the importance of environmental due diligence prior to property transactions, and the value that experienced environmental and legal consultants bring to the process.

For this year's WIC Week 2023, we took the best moments from our Gender Inclusion in the AEC Industry podcast series and put them into one episode. Ali Frye returns as the host, outlining why gender inclusion is important in our industry.

In this final episode of the building materials group careers series, we're happy to be joined by landscape architect and roofing consultant Lloyd Dubisky, and SMEs own architect, Daredevil and masonry expert, Amanda Cassidy.

Nate and Tyler started their careers as Co-ops at SME, and after trying their hands at a few different services, they each decided the building materials group was the best fit for them.

Tom and Jessica are an engineer and an architect respectively. Both Tom and Jessica are building enclosure consultants, and both are in the prime of their careers building their reputations in their field.

In our newest series, "Consultants Aren't Born, They're Made", we welcome several members of SME's Building Materials Group to share their unique journeys as professionals, and what they found when discovering consulting as the destination.

We wrap up our series on the value of a Co-op experience for students pursuing engineering careers with a conversation about the transition from Co-op to a professional engineer.

In part two of our three-part series on the value of a Co-Op experience for students pursuing engineering careers, Aaron talks with Case Vanderheide and Danielle Rand.

Our three-part series on the value of a Co-op experience for students pursuing engineering careers starts with Dr. Steven Sachs and Tyler Kimmel from the University of Pittsburgh.

In part two of our Leaving a Legacy episode with SME CEO Mark Kramer and guest host Randy Wilburn, we hear how Mark led the company through the financial meltdowns of 2008 and 2009.

SME CEO Mark Kramer discusses his summer jobs with SME as a teenager and how he rose from project engineer to ultimately succeed his father in the early 2000s.

Our series on gender inclusion in the AEC industry wraps up with a conversation on how companies can implement inclusion initiatives in their own firms.

In this episode, Ali keeps the conversation on gender inclusion in the AEC industry going with Mark Kramer.

We begin our series on gender inclusion in the AEC industry with resident expert on inclusion, Lauline Mitchell.

We will wrap up our series on the warehousing and logistics market with with a conversation on financing.

In this episode, Ali talks to Jason Salazar, Vice President of estimating with Oliver Hatcher Construction, about what it takes to actually build these large facilities.

Wondering just how these large distributors choose the right community for their next project? Kevin Hegg joins the podcast to help us understand just that.

To kick off our series on the recent boom in the warehousing and logistics market, Ali talks to Kenyetta Hairston-Bridges.

The Build+Revitalize podcast is a direct reflection of SME’s passion and commitment to solving problems and building better communities.