Cameron Gonzalez Email and Phone Number

Living on a 10-acre ranch all my life, I was raised to be a hands-on, "in-the-dirt" type of worker. A huge portion of my childhood was spent building and remodeling portions of our property with my father. You may wonder why such experience is relevant to Civil Engineering, but the overlap couldn't be clearer. Since I was young, I was passionate about learning how things work and how they are built. Every remodeling project or simple fix-up around the ranch kindled inside of me a fiery passion for physics and mathematics. As a result, my engineering interests today are structural, geotechnical, hydraulics, construction and engineering materials.The kind of work I’ve done over the past few years exemplifies this blend of hands-on work with my love for science. Three years ago, I took a position as a biotech research assistant at the United States Department of Agriculture citrus facility in Ft. Pierce, FL. In this position, my role was both hands-on in managing the citrus farm but also very research-oriented when it came to analyzing samples and other lab work. My work shifted more towards just engineering last summer when I was hired at O’Rourke planning and engineering as a transportation analyst. My role was to perform transportation analyses for private businesses in the Treasure Coast.After I graduate with my bachelor’s in civil engineering, I hope to start my master’s degree in structural/geotechnical engineering. This will get me one step closer to my life goal of having a PHD in an engineering related field.