Week 3 Prompted Post

This week I had to interview a professional in engineering. I picked my cousin, Karen, who is an assistant to public service director. She has a degree in civil engineering.
A few topics we covered were:
Her job:
As Assistant to public service director she is in charge of oversight of environmental storm water project, benchmark city operations with municipals, meets with governor and city council, answer questions from residents, reporters about public services. she works 40 to 45 hours a week dealing with water main breaks, budgeting issues, complaints, and contract construction. I asked why she wanted to pursue engineering and she gave me a really heartfelt reply. When the Exxon oil spill happened in 1989 the crisis made her want to help and do something to help the wildlife and the environment. So she became a civil engineer.
What she writes:
She writes emails, letters to correspondents, reports, letters to clients or reporters, specifications plans.
Why she writes:
she writes these because the job or project deals with large amounts of money and she has to communicate and document everything the job/project consists of.
Projects worked on:
some projects worked on were detention pond, retrofit, a dam removal and stream restoration (the project won an award from the state).
She is currently working on the new water tower for Farmington Hills.