International Internship in 2016

First, I think this project is a great opportunity for us to have the chance to actually use what we learned in our school life in the real working site. Also, this is a great opportunity for foreign students, like me, to experience the Japanese company system. I learned a lot about the working routine of the Japanese company, and it would help me with my future decision in job hunting.

It is very obvious that civil engineering plays an essential role in city management from my experience. The constructionis a combination of early planning and practice afterwards. At the construction site, safety is always the most important thing to be remembered. Additionally, periodical checks are conducted and recorded frequently due to the schedule. It is also a brand new experience to work in a Japanese corporation and experience conventions of Japanese society. Being a foreigner,  I reckon that foreign language is essential during the internship.This internship truly provides me a new prospective in learning civil engineering.

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This internship has been a huge eye-opener on the realm of superstructures engineering. It was very cultivating in the sense of knowledge, skills, language, attitude and style. Knowledge, for the uncountable amount of new things I was taught through practical engagement and computer design as well as using surveying equipments. Skills, in managing resources and always thinking out of the box.

The international internship is an excellent window to experience the Japanese working environment in top class global standards. Not forgetting, deepening our prior subjective knowledge from class and gaining much more than that through practical engagement.

The internship was a really great experience to me. I was not expecting to learn a lot about software used on numerical analysis for civil engineering-related problem. Even though I have a difficulty in learning it, my supervisor and many employees were willing to help. It was also great opportunity to understand and feel how to work in a company. I experienced how to make a presentation about my project, having discussion with many people, and got to know them were also nice. I am sure that what I did in the internship will be useful for my further career.

I learned the works and organizational structure of the construction site through this internship. The main content of the internship was dredging work, concrete casting, quality control, contract, and construction management. I was really impressed by the close relationship between the specification of contract documents and real works. I also understood the way staffs communicate with their colleagues from different countries. This internship was a great opportunity for me to have a clear vision of my future work that could not be obtained through regular lectures.

 Thanks to this internship, I got precious opportunities to see and to feel the actual world of civil engineering in the world. I could learn not only techniques and  knowledge how they apply to the construction, but also what they care when they are participating in international construction projects.

People at the site were really kind and they are willing to tell me about their works, and to give me a lot of advice. Through interacting with them, I was so motivated to study more to become a civil eigineer in the future.

 This internship is so rewarding that I could learn a lot of things

 which cannot be learned in Japan or in university. It was a good opportunity to learn the work of civil engineers especially in overseas construction site. And what I learned can be applied in Japan. Communication and risk management are important in Japan as well, though not so much as in overseas site. Foresee and trust are also keys when I work in the future. I learned that I can obtain experience actively. Consequently, this internship is rewarding for my future. Thank you all for the supports.

 This experience gave me a very big meaning for my future. Thanks to the internship, I could understand the importance of Japanese engineer when we work abroad, especially in developing countries. We should show local engineers a way how to develop properly, so that they can do it without our help in a future. We, Japan has a well- organized society fortunately.

But, some countries do not. what can I do for them? I had a very good opportunity in order to consider about my future carefully.

 I was happy to have this experience. I could study with workers of general contractor and study about shield construction. But the best experience for me was that I could feel the atomosphere of working spaces and how workers behave there.

I think that we could not easily have experience of feeling the atomosphere of working spaces in a foreign country before start to work. working. So this internship seems like a special experience for me.