That was the TikTok trend we hopped on during my internship, capturing the personality of engineers in a short video that made people stop scrolling.

“I’m a marketing intern for a Structural Engineer, of course I…”

But what comes after that? Before this summer, I wouldn’t have known what to say.

The summer going into senior year of high school, I was lost. It seemed like everyone knew exactly what interested them and who they were going to become, future doctors, engineers, lawyers, and athletes. And then there was me, I was no athlete, nor was I good at math or science. Public health? Ew, blood. Engineering? My dad does that and he’s a total math nerd. Political science? I didn’t even know who our current local representative was.

I had no idea what I wanted to do but I knew what kept me entertained. Social media. In my free time, I would edit fun YouTube videos, scroll through TikTok and Pinterest, and I would get excited about social media trends. That’s what made me happy. So, as I scrolled through the list of majors, one caught my eye: marketing. It wasn’t as intimidating as the others; it was just up my alley.

Now here I am, working a summer internship at a structural engineering firm. That girl who once said, “ew, engineering” is now sitting in meetings about engineering projects, drafting proposals, and creating social media posts about engineers and what they do. And surprisingly, I love it.

I’ve learned that marketing isn’t just for beauty brands or movies. It’s about storytelling, even when the stories are hidden behind those concrete buildings. This role has taught me that it’s finding creativity in a place most people don’t look at, and adding light to a place that’s dim. So no, KPFF might not be as flashy as Netflix, Coca-Cola, or Apple but it’s what’s behind all that, the spaces where people dream, work, and create the brands we all know. And I’m getting to help tell that story? That’s a pretty cool job I have.

At first, I was intimidated by the world of engineering, as it felt so grey to me. Plans, measurements, calculations, and terminology I have never heard before. But I’ve realized that even in the precise world of engineering, there’s room and a need for creativity. Many Gen Z, including me, have little awareness of this industry, with less than a third even considering a career in engineering. Trust me we’re missing out on seeing how creativity and impact can merge in unexpected places. And I get to help tell this story to inspire others, and to market a company like KPFF, who are dedicated to bridging the gap between visionary design and the reality of building it. This internship has opened my eyes to how marketing can elevate industries people often overlook, and I’m excited to take these lessons into whatever story I help tell next.

And this is what I’d say if I had to finish the TikTok:

“I’m a marketing intern for a Structural engineer, of course I help tell the stories that are hidden behind those concrete walls.”

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We’re structural engineers…of course we’re late to this trend. #BetterLateThanNever #OfCourse #StructuralEngineers #StructuralEngineering #kpff #kpffla #kpffoc #losangeles #orangecounty

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Julia Orue is our 2025 Structural Engineering Marketing Intern. She is attending Santa Clara University with an estimated graduation date of 2028.

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The calendar may say fall, but we’re wrapping up our Epic Summer Series detailing our Intern Program in Los Angeles Structural. We’ve explored how we enhanced the intern experience, heard from interns in our 2022 program as well as interns who are now full-time employees, and learned how communication ties everything together. In our last and final entry, we’re going to discover the history of the LA-S Intern Program.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

We’ve always had some form of an intern program, but it wasn’t as robust as our intern program today. Largely unstructured, no one knew what to do with the interns and no one was monitoring their success. The interns were bored, and we weren’t benefiting from them as part of our team.

In 2016, Mike Dygean created a more focused approach to the intern program on his team. He hired two summer interns and developed the Intern Design Project (IDP) to give the interns something to do when they didn’t have a task. “We needed something that was real, live engineering and something to judge their skills on,” he says.

8–10 WEEK INTERVIEW

When KPFF LA-S moved to Downtown Los Angeles in 2018, the intern program was refined further. We struggled to hire entry-level engineers, and those we did hire had a 50% turnover rate. Could we use our intern program as an 8–10 week interview to see if the interns were a good fit as full-time employees?

“That’s what I tell my interns,” Neil Bahen shares. “It’s a two-way interview for sure.”

“It’s our interview process for them, but it gives the person a deeper insight into what they would be doing as an Engineer,” Mike adds. “It’s them interviewing us. The interns appreciate that.”

This approach has proved successful: roughly two-thirds of our interns return either as repeat interns the following summer or as full-time employees.

FURTHER REFINEMENT

During the pandemic, the intern program became more defined. While we were fully remote, we were able to have interns living in other geographic locations. But when it was time to return in-person, there was a need for further refinement.

Team leaders expressed concern about Juniors and even some Seniors joining our team. But Juniors are arguably the most essential interns. “Juniors go back to school with one year left to the same University we want to hire from, and they talk,” Mike explains. “Let’s see if we can get more people applying from these schools.”

And so far, it’s worked – the 2022 Summer Intern Class was the largest class to date with 20 interns!

To accommodate the younger engineers, we interviewed the team leaders and created a wish list. From this list, we developed the Crash Course Series to get engineers up-to-speed so they could jump into projects right away.

In addition to the crash courses, interns also had emotional intelligence, core strengths, and crucial conversations trainings, in addition to other summer activities throughout the office.

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?

Our intern program has evolved into a robust career training experience. As Jeanne Li covered in Epic Summer Part 1, our 2022 summer internship included design Crash Courses in topics such as steel and concrete, Entry Level Training seminars, an Intern Design Project, emotional intelligence training (Core Strengths, Crucial Conversations, DEI training), site visits, client meetings, and of course, real project work.

We may have gone too far last year. With a record size Intern Class and a robust learning schedule, the intern exit interviews showed many interns felt overwhelmed. While the 2023 Intern Program will have fewer trainings, they are not going away completely.

“We’re just sliding it into our Design Engineer training.” Neil shares. “As you’re transitioning in your career from intern to design engineer, there are even more trainings you’ll get from us as a full-time employee. At KPFF, the learning never stops.”

Mike adds, “Ultimately, we’re looking to fine-tune it so everyone has a beneficial summer.”

READY FOR AN EPIC SUMMER?

Are you interested in joining the KPFF LA Structural team for your summer internship? Applications are now open!

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“Hi, my name is Esther, and I’m an incoming third year civil engineering student.”

This past summer offered me many chances to introduce myself to others. Whether with a person who has been at KPFF LA Structural for more than a decade or with a new hire on their first day in the office, someone is bound to come up to you and say hello. The environment is so welcoming and friendly, and I’m thankful I had the opportunity to intern here for the summer. As soon as I started, people came to my desk to greet me, and I was also able to meet some new hires who started the same week I did. Since then, I’ve learned how intentional and genuine KPFF LAS is in wanting to get to know people. Not just our basic introductions, like which school we’re going to or what year we are going into, but also what we like and what we do outside school and work. As a marketing intern, I’ve learned how essential connecting with people is in this industry.

KNOWING TO COMMUNICATE

Every week is filled with meetings. As part of marketing, I was invited to join in on meetings with fellow support staff on Mondays, LA Civil Marketing on Tuesdays, principals on Wednesdays, and LA Structural Marketing every day.

To help our Support Staff better support staff, we met weekly to discuss new tasks and events, follow up on previous ones, and check in on how everyone was doing. We also covered any office-wide announcements to ensure everyone was on the same page.

Each week, we met with our sister office, LA Civil, to follow up on any projects on which LA Civil and LA Structural were collaborating. In addition, we had meetings with our principals to get caught up on any new projects or developments on existing projects. And finally, we had daily marketing meetings, which allowed the marketing staff to update one another on our tasks. Through these marketing-specific meetings, I learned how to sell KPFF’s services when making proposals for potential clients and advertising on different platforms.

After talking with the engineering interns, I realized there was just as much communication within other departments. The office has multiple conference rooms, and if you walk around the office, you are almost guaranteed to stumble upon someone making calls to clients, partners, etc. KPFF recognizes the need for communication and continues to find and provide resources and opportunities to optimize our communication effectiveness.

KNOWING HOW TO COMMUNICATE

Not only is the act of communicating essential for producing good work, but so is knowing how to communicate. During our time here, all interns and new hires had various training modules to complete. One of the most memorable and valuable was KPFF’s Crucial Conversations training. KPFF gave us access to books, videos, and discussions to help us better communicate in difficult yet crucial situations. This training also allowed us to get to others in the office we don’t work with daily. We were paired with learning partners and table groups for activities to practice our new communication skills. I appreciated that KPFF LA Structural went to the lengths it did (and still does) to provide all staff – even the interns – with access to these resources because they realize it advances workplace productivity.

KNOWING WHO WE’RE COMMUNICATING WITH

Finally, I learned it is essential to know who you are communicating with. Along with Crucial Conversations training, KPFF LAS has everyone take the SDI assessment and training course. Through this course, I could better understand myself and my peers and learned how to communicate with them based on their SDI assessment. We reviewed each person’s results and all possible combinations to see what environments allow us to optimize communication and, thus, productivity in the workplace.

KPFF also provided a broad spectrum of fun activities, such as the Office Olympics and the Wellness Challenge, allowing us to meet coworkers outside our teams.

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In Part 2 of our Epic Summer Series, which looks at our Intern Program, we reached out to our current interns and an intern who later became full-time employees for their perspectives on the program.

The KPFF LA Structural Intern Program was restructured in 2018 (more on that in a future blog). Last summer, we ran the numbers: 67% of LA Structural interns either return the following year as repeat interns or join KPFF after graduation as full-time employees.

GETTING IN THE DOOR

Before our interns become interns, they have to find us first. And how exactly do our interns (and full-time employees, for that matter) find us? We asked some of our current interns to share how they discovered KPFF.

Suha Hussain, a current Cal Poly SLO student and first-time intern, shared she started with LinkedIn, cross-referenced her findings with online ratings, and talked with her friends who had previously interned with LA Structural. “Most of the firms I interviewed with were civil engineering only or land development,” she shares. “ I wanted exposure to true structural engineering before deciding on a focus for my senior year.”

Courtney Huitt similarly found KPFF via LinkedIn, though she had a slightly different approach: “I go to Cal Poly SLO, so I looked at the recent Cal Poly alumni – where they interned and now work full time. A lot of Alumni work at KPFF.”

THE DECIDING FACTOR

Most of our interns interviewed with multiple firms but ultimately decided on KPFF, but every intern’s deciding factor was different.

“I was originally trying to find something at home in Colorado,” Clayton Sumner explains. “In the Structural Engineering world, you have to worry about seismic, and Los Angeles is the best of the best. If you work in California, you can pretty much work anywhere.”

Courtney describes how the program’s overall structure appealed to her: “The crash courses, the entry-level seminars, and the Intern Design project the Interns would participate in throughout the internship were appealing to me. I’m a younger intern – I haven’t graduated yet, so I knew I wouldn’t have a ton of experience. The idea of having all these classes, I thought this would be the internship I would learn the most.”

GETTING HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE

The interns found us, interviewed with us, and chose to work with us. So what does a day in the life of an intern entail? From weekly lunch-and-learns to the intern design project and summer activities, there’s always something to engage our interns.

“This was my first time doing design work,” current employee and former intern Kiana Sarad explains. “I was given a lot of responsibilities as an intern. KPFF allowed me to bridge the gap between what I learned in school and what is done in the industry.”

“I didn’t expect so many activities in the office!” Suha adds. “The picnic, the Summer Olympics, the Wellness Challenge. Everyone’s enthusiastic. They want to have fun.”

Clayton shares his involvement in several types of projects “I spend a lot of time in etabs, I’ve done equipment anchorage and retaining walls, a structural analysis of an existing building. I’ve made a small impact on some big projects.”

THE CULTURE

The SDI and Crucial Conversations trainings surprised Suha. “I tried stepping into leadership roles such as student government to learn these skills. I never thought I would get that in engineering.”

Clayton agrees, “The culture was evident from the first initial conversation. Very inclusive and encouraging of everybody with the practice groups and soft skills training.”

“There are a lot of interns, at least in LA Structural,” Courtney adds. “I enjoy being able to interact with peers my age in the same program I am and working together to figure things out.”

FINAL THOUGHTS?

When asked if our interns would return next summer, they responded with a resounding YES. Suha shares, “During the time we’re here, we’re treated like full-time employees. I don’t feel like I’m just an intern.”

“At the end of the day, the reason I came back as a full-time employee was the people,” Kiana laughs. “It’s so cliche, but it’s true.”

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During the first week of their internship, interns are assigned to an engineering team and a live KPFF project. To bring the Interns up to speed and provide them with the skills needed to contribute to these projects successfully, we created a comprehensive training program. By giving Interns these skills early in the program and connecting them with engineers at all levels, the interns can jump into projects immediately and experience what it is to be a structural engineer.

When I asked staff to gauge interest in leading the seminars, I was AMAZED how easy it was to find eager volunteers. We had 47 volunteers to conduct training sessions – 26 veteran trainers and 21 new trainers for the Crash Course series! The trainers range in experience from new engineers to 25-year engineering veterans.

This enthusiasm exemplifies our “Forefront” philosophy. Forefront, our education philosophy, provides a supportive and positive environment to make it happen. The forefront experience starts the day you walk in the door at KPFF and continues as a career-long effort to help us all advance and grow together. Engineers at all levels bring something to the table and can be resources to their colleagues.

Putting together a training series or revamping one from previous years is no easy task. Trainers met weekly for several months to create outlines, models, reference guides, practice examples, and PowerPoint slides; and then performed dry runs of the material before the first training session.
Although our office was busy overall, the level of effort and attention to detail in this training was unparalleled.

At the beginning of this calendar year, when discussing how to improve our intern training program, we met with the Team Leaders since they are the ones who train the Interns and assign the engineering tasks. We incorporated the feedback into our 2022 Intern Training Program, which features the following components:

ENTRY LEVEL CRASH COURSES

Entry Level Crash Courses are a new addition to the 2022 training schedule, intended for new engineers and interns coming right out of school. Ideally taken during the first week of employment or their internship, these practical trainings include elements of structural engineering design. The Interns and new hires are brought up to speed faster and can jump in on projects more confidentially.

We intentionally recruited junior trainers for the Crash Courses – they are closer to the actual numbers, spreadsheets, etc., and can offer more recent lessons learned than some of the more senior engineers. Additionally, most of the junior engineers are naturally younger, and we felt they would be more approachable as another resource in the office the Interns could refer to for questions.

ENTRY LEVEL SEMINARS

Upon completion of the Crash Courses, the Interns attend the Entry Level Seminars, which are provided for all new KPFF LA Structural Engineers. These Seminars cover structural engineering topics in more depth and offer insight on professional development at KPFF, relationship intelligence, and other aspects of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

INTERN DESIGN PROJECT

We provide our Interns with hands-on experience on real-life KPFF LA projects, but since we only have them for 8-12 weeks, they will not see the project through completion. The Intern Design project gives interns experience on every project level – from concept through completion – on an accelerated schedule to fit within the summer program.

Our Intern Design Project changes each year and is based on a completed KPFF LAS project. The Interns are tasked with developing an ETABS model, analyzing the building and proposing a retrofit scheme, and then presenting their project to their team at the end of their internship. Interns are provided with weekly training sessions and an assigned liaison for support.

Structural engineering is about continuous learning and then learning some more! We hope our interns feel like they made strides in their professional development while enjoying themselves during their time at KPFF. If not, we hope they take the opportunity during their exit interviews to provide honest feedback so we can improve our program for next year’s interns!

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“I am so grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to intern at KPFF not only once, but twice! It was wonderful to meet other engineers and hear about their careers, and I was glad to see familiar faces when I returned. My two summers at KPFF have been so valuable in helping me continue to grow as an engineer. Even in a virtual setting, I had the resources to work on a variety of projects and I felt comfortable reaching out to my coworkers for help. I also enjoyed having an intern design project that was different from last year’s project, since it gave me an entirely new learning opportunity. Finally, I appreciate the flexibility that I was able to have for my work hours, given that I was working from across the country in New York!” – Carmen Chen

“I had such a positive experience as a returning intern to KPFF LA Structural! Working virtually has its challenges, but exposure to real projects and working in a team setting has been far more rewarding. I learned so much about structural engineering from these projects which helped me gain confidence in my own practice. Each time I struggled with a concept it became a learning opportunity! I cannot thank my coworkers enough because everyone has been kind and patient enough to share their knowledge. I also looked forward to the KPFF Happy Hours and Office Olympics. These events gave me the opportunity to get to know everyone and enjoy my time at KPFF.” – Agustine Benitez

“My experience working remotely this summer has been much more satisfying than the previous summer internship. I would say this time around I was much more prepared in having my workstation put together for working remotely. Working remotely has its advantages with one of them being able to record 1 on 1 training sessions. This allowed me to refer to videos whenever I got lost trying to complete a task. The downside of working remotely is not being able to meet other co-workers from other teams.” – Bryant Ramirez

“Interning at KPFF these past two summers has been a real joy and an excellent learning experience! I was really excited to get the opportunity to come back this summer as I value the great learning environment KPFF has created. The intern design project, entry level seminars, along with the wide variety of project work have allowed me to gain my footing as a Structural Engineer. Additionally, I appreciate my coworkers for be willing to answer my bombardment of engineering questions, no matter how small. While I do not have a lot of in person experience to compare it to, working virtually has been great. While I am sad, I have not had the chance to go into the office, being able to communicate and collaborate with others has still been very easy and enjoyable. I have loved getting the opportunity to get to know and talk with the people on my team as well as others around the office!” – Macky Hamilton

“Looking back at the pandemic era, there had been many unknowns in the world. The biggest unknown in my life was whether I was going to be interning for KPFF LA Structural in the summer of 2020! Being selected as an intern for the summer of 2020 and the summer of 2021 had been an enjoyable time filled with invaluable experience despite the limitations of working remotely. There were many seminars, meetings, and projects that I had been involved with these past two summers, but when I reflect on the memorable parts of my internship, it comes down to the mentorship of the engineers in KPFF LA Structural and how I believe they’ve shaped me for my future as a structural engineer. I’m grateful that everyone was willing to answer my many trivial technical questions throughout the day! Aside from engineering, it was fun competing with others in the Wellness Competition as well as the Summer Olympics!” – Matthew Cristi

“For me, working remotely has had the most impact on interactions with other interns and people in the office. Even with the virtual events that KPFF has organized, getting to know people and socializing has been more difficult than it otherwise would have been in person. When it comes to working, being remote hasn’t had too much of an impact on my productivity. Teams has made communicating easy and efficient. Having a call with someone and giving them control of my screen is almost as good as having someone helping me at my desk in the office. Overall, although working remotely hasn’t been ideal, KPFF has done a great job making it a fun and valuable learning experience.” – Patrick Fox

Thank you, Carmen, Agustine, Bryant, Macky, Matthew, and Patrick for being open and honest. Based on your responses, the same message resonates through. We are doing something right! Thanks to a select team of engineers, modelers, support staff, and a lot of detailed planning and preparing, our LA Structural internship program can be and will be a success even virtually. So, if we must have a virtual 2022 summer internship, have no fear, we are equipped to produce an internship that will help launch your career in structural engineering.

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It’s an early Monday morning in the middle of May. I am scrambling some eggs for breakfast sandwiches for my sons, and my mind wanders. I am thinking about our summer internship program. A year ago, it would be unfathomable to even remotely consider not having a summer internship program, but this is not a typical year. We pride ourselves on providing a great summer internship experience: project work, site visits, client meetings, marketing events, entry level seminars, the intern design project (IDP), happy hours, the wellness challenge, and other fun summer events. With each passing day, it seems more and more like our entire office will be working from their homes. I am unsure of how we can deliver the internship experience that we promised that our awesome group of interns deserve…wait what’s that smell? Dang…I burnt a bagel!

Flash-forward to today, it’s the last day of August, and I have a much different feeling this morning. From start to finish, we brought our internship “A-Game” worthy of being mentioned along with other great performances from equally talented organizations such as the 1974-1979 Pittsburgh Steelers or the 2005-2008 Pittsburgh Steelers. In total, sixteen talented interns joined our “office” this summer, and from day 1, we made sure they hit the ground running. Before any of them could even role out of bed and grab a cup of coffee, our incredible IT team was setting them up with Slack accounts, Microsoft 365 accounts, configuring their personal computers to access machines in our office, and setting up countless other programs and accounts they would need for the summer. Before they could even ask, “Who is this Justin Anders guy, and how did he get access to my laptop?”, they were whisked away to an onboarding presentation led by Katrina, Tamara, and Aaron to get them prepped to enter KPFF. If you are curious what the onboarding presentation is like, watch the scene from The Matrix where Morpheus gives Neo the red pill…it’s exactly like that except our pill is blue. Before any of them realized what just happened, they were virtually ushered to their Teams with guidance and support from an assigned advocate. During their first week, they would become fully integrated with the team and dive right into project work.

Around the third week of June, all the interns had joined us, and we started the Entry Level Seminars. Spearheaded by Allen Au, a small army of KPFFers (Aaron, Katrina, Reza, Kyle, Lin, Neha, Rodrigo, Andy, Riad, Melissa, Professor Pithey, Professor English, and some guy from Las Vegas) taught classes about our organization, drawings, coordination with civil engineers, Revit, and seismic design. All classes were taught via Zoom and condensed in a one-week period. As the Entry Level Seminars were winding down, we also started our Intern Design Project (IDP) led by Paul, Joe Lio, Saleem, and many multiple liaisons from each team. Over a six-week period, with the support of the IDP leads and liaisons, all the interns were able to analyze and design a central utility plant structure with a steel framed gravity system and a concrete and CMU shear wall lateral system.

As the summer wore on, we also started to find ways to incorporate experiences that have been typical in previous summers. We started “bringing” interns to our virtual meetings with clients, contractors, and project teams (If we had to be miserable on never-ending Zoom and Teams meetings, why shouldn’t the interns be miserable too?) which provided opportunities to observe real-world project coordination. We were also able to coordinate site visits to Kaiser Downey, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, Apple Grove, and some of our other projects.

If I am being completely honest, my biggest worry about our internship program this summer was that it would really lack the fun and social engagement we typically enjoy every summer. Fortunately, my fears were put to rest. Even though we were all apart, we still found ways to engage and have fun with each other too! Juan, Rose, Raivyno, and the Community Practice group put on some really fun virtual happy hours! Who new sitting in front of my laptop with a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale playing an online game could be so fun? The Wellness Challenge led by Jeanne, Vanja, and Allen was a big hit too! It was a great way to interact with and get to know people outside of our engineering teams. I learned that Matthew Cristi works while riding a stationary bike, and that Carmen Chen can do more burpees than the rest of Team 2 combined!

As I reflect on all this, I am impressed, thankful, and proud. I am impressed by the technical capabilities of our IT group, engineers, and support that made having a completely remote internship possible. I am thankful for all the hard work our staff put in to make our summer internship experience interesting, educational, and fun. Finally, I am proud of our 2020 intern class. Under difficult circumstances, they fully integrated with our team, learned from our talented staff, and made contributions to our projects. I wish all of our interns luck going back to school to finish their degrees, and I hope to meet them all in person in the future!

Now for our next challenge…facilitating virtual first grade for my son! Who’s with me?! What’s that? Every parent for himself/herself? Well, it was worth a try.

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For starters, our internship program has a primary objective: positively impact the beginning of young people’s careers. On day one, each intern is welcomed into one of our seven engineering teams and given two documents: The Intern Packet and the The Intern Syllabus. The Intern Packet is a 28 page reference manual crafted by several of our engineers to be utilized as the interns start integrating into their project teams. The manual covers everything from local jurisdictional review agencies and common construction/design lingo to analysis and design guidance. The Intern Syllabus summarizes everything the internship will encompass: our Entry Level Seminar series covering topics such as civil/structural coordination, drawing development, and introduction into using Revit; our Intern Design Project which allows interns to analyze and design a structure from start to finish; lunches with our Principal group; and industry experiences such as site visits, client meetings, and industry events. We are finding our biggest challenge is squeezing all of this into just three months!

Our efforts to provide the most educational and valuable intern experience possible were repaid by the lasting impact our interns have had on our staff and projects they have worked on.

In total, the interns made positive contributions to over 100 projects this summer. Just as important, we made lasting personal connections through multiple social events including happy hours, KPFF Office Olympics, Summer Wellness Challenge, and the KPFF Summer Picnic, to name a few. We are excited to say several of our summer interns will be joining us as full-time engineers in the winter, and we hope to remain connected with all of the others.

I am proud to be part of an organization that invests in future leaders in structural engineering, but I am even prouder of what our interns have accomplished this summer. I look forward to seeing their career trajectories, and to the impact they will have on our industry.

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