1. What is your age?
28
2. Where do you live?
Jamestown, Colorado
3. What do you like to do outside of work?
Landscapeing, wakeboarding, wakeboarding terniments, boating, being on the water, snowboarding, traveling.
4. What is your job title?
Landscape Engineer
5. When and why did you choose your career path?
I chose it in college because I love working with my hands and love being out side.
6. What is the name of your company or employer?
One Earth Landscape
7. Describe your primary duties and skills. [Cite your source(s)]
I decide where to put flowers, trees, walkways, and other landscape details. I also draw what I want the landscape to look like. I use a lot of computer animatide models for the costomer. I use my skills and experience to make the perfect backyard landscape. My source: http://www.bls.gov/k12/nature02.htm
8. Describe your physical work environment.
I spend a lot of the time in the office drawing up the next job but I also spend time out at the job site.
9. What is your favorite part of your job?
My favorite part is when I’m done drawing it up and I’m done putting every thing together I can see some amazeing thing I created.
10. What is your salary? [Cite your source(s)]
$45,000-$55,000
Source: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos039.htm
11. Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? [Cite your source(s)]
I went to Purdue University I got a Bachelor of science degree in Landscape Architecture.
Source: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/hla/LA/Pages/LAUGProgram.aspx
12. Describe in detail three of the courses that you took which are closely related to your current career. [Cite your source(s)]
LA 11600 - Graphic Communication For Students Of Landscape Architects And Design: Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to design and presentation techniques fundamental to landscape architecture. Short projects give students exposure to a variety of presentation materials (pencil, ink, pastel, watercolor and acrylic, paper and board) to freehand lettering, and to two- and three-dimensional illustrations. Materials used are purchased by the student. Typically offered Fall.
LA 22700 - Planting Design I: Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of design principles as related to plant design characteristics; design implications of plant responses to environment; review of landscape plants in fall. Typically offered Fall.
LA 24600 - Site Systems I: Credit Hours: 4.00. Properties of hardscape materials, their methods of detailing and specification. Introduction to masonry, wood and site furnishings. Design of pavements, walls, steps, ramps and other common site elements. Standards and methods of detailing and notation are presented in small-format exercises. Typically offered Fall.
Source: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/HLA/LA/Pages/LACourses.aspx
13. Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. [Cite your source(s) and include a course listing from the appropriate degree program]
These two courses seemed to be the most challenging to me:
LA 49000 - Special Problems In Landscape Architecture: Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Independent in-depth study and presentation of specific research or design problems selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. Open only to advanced students.
LA 17600 - Urbanization And Change In The Midwest Landscape: Credit Hours: 2.00. This course traces the evolution and meaning of the human-made midwest environment from the retreat of the Wisconsin glacier to the present. The course intertwines economic, cultural, historical, political, technological, anthropological, and social data to develop a working model of change in the midwestern environment. Typically offered Spring.
Sources: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/HLA/LA/Pages/LACourses.aspx
14. What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your source(s)]
Student Services in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Source: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/hla/Pages/StudentServices.aspx
15. Regarding the two most challenging courses, how did you persevere?
I put my noise to the grind stone and studied every night to make sure I was going to pass with a good grade.
16. From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? [Cite your source(s)]
I got my degree at Perdue University
Source: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/hla/LA/Pages/LAUGProgram.aspx
17. What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? [Cite your source(s)]
Landscape Arcitecher
18. What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? [Cite your source(s)]
All I had to do was to pass the architect exam.
19. How would your clients and co-workers describe you?
Hard working and determined.
20. What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?
I hope I have inspired the youth of America and I also hope to have a nice big retirement fund.
21. Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contribution(s) can they make?
You get a awsome tan and you get to work with your hands and you get to see the finished product. They can keep the houseing butiful on the outside and the world around them.
Conclusion
1. You described a career related to civil engineering and/or architecture. Is this the career field that you are currently most interested in at this stage in your life?
No
2. Rank and describe the three most important characteristics that you value in choosing a post-secondary school.
The degrees offered along with the recognition and being able to shrapen my knloedge of Landscape Architecture.
3. Rank the following in the order of importance to you regarding a career: job satisfaction; salary; making a difference; level of responsibility; titles; benefits; hours; co-workers; supervisors. How will a career in civil engineering or architecture satisfy the factor that you ranked highest?
job satisfaction, salary, hours If i love doing what i do then i will do better all around.
