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Hi, I'm Genesis, and today I'm here with Tula Ngasala Tula can you tell me where we are and what you do?

We are at Spicer Group in East Lansing, Michigan, where I work as a civil engineer.

Civil engineering is everywhere.

There are three parts of civil engineering.

There's structures like buildings The second part is transportation.

Everywhere you see roadways, railways if you see orange cones on the road that's traffic control.

It's also part of civil engineering to prevent cars from crashing during construction The third part is water resources This is, you know, lakes, rivers, water treatment plants, waste water treatment plants.

What types of civil engineering do you work on?

I work on several projects, but mainly I work on storm drain design.

This was original pipe and now we are increasing the size to make it bigger so it can hold more water.

So when it rains, if you don't have a storm drain, all that water can cause flooding and soil erosion, and eventually contaminate our water sources.

And another project that I usually work on is drinking water distrobution systems.

So my job is to make sure it comes from the source all the way to the consumption.

If you don't properly manage rain water and you don't have a way of collecting it and transporting it safely, you can end up contaminating water sources.

How did you get involved in civil engineering and water resources?

So I'm from Tanzania, in East Africa and growing up I didn't always have access to water regularly.

I had to walk sometimes far away to collect water and bring it home.

So when I went to college and le about civil and environmental en So when I went to college and learned about civil and environmental engineering, or water resources, I knew that's what I wanted to do because I wanted to one day be part of the solution.

My brain is overflowing with knowledge about civil engineering, thanks to Tula Ngasala.

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