Lexi Gawelko

Senior in Civil Engineering

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What high school did you attend?

Northwestern Lehigh High School

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What activities (clubs) are you involved in outside of WEPO?

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), Concrete Canoe Club, Research, Career Envoy (Engineering Career Services), ACI (American Concrete Institute), SWE

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What Internship/Co-Op/Study Abroad or Research experience have you had?

Internships: Highway Design Intern with JMT, Site Development Intern with The Pidcock Company, Geotechnical Engineering Intern with Gannett Fleming; Study Abroad: Patagonia, Chile (Natural Resources of Patagonia, winter break); Research: design and execute experiments to study wave attenuation in meta-soil

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Why did you choose to come to Penn State?

Impressive alumni network and limitless opportunities available

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What is your best Penn State or engineering memory?

Building and racing a successful concrete canoe with my teammates to win 2nd place in the Mid-Atlantic Region Competition!

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What did you wish you knew as a first-year engineer?

To try every new thing I had the opportunity to and not worry so much about school work (while still being responsible)

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What was your favorite class you took as a freshmen?

LARCH 060: Landscape architecture (history of why parks, college campuses, cities look the way they do)

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What is a fun fact about yourself?

I have hiked the mountains shown on the Patagonia label!