Edward Colligon is a fifth year Architectural Engineering student in the structural option working towards a Bachelor’s of Architectural Engineering in May 2016.  He has obtained a minor in Architectural Studies during his time at Penn State.  He passed the FE exam in January 2016, allowing him to become EIT eligible upon graduation.  Upon graduation, he will begin working full time with Mulhern & Kulp Structural Engineering in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

 

Edward has been involved in multiple student organizations during his time at Penn State, including the Student Society of Architectural Engineers.  He is currently serving his second term on the executive board of the Structural Engineers Association, this time as Treasurer following his term as the Professional Relations Coordinator.  He also served in numerous positions in a fraternity that he joined in the fall of his freshman year.

 

Throughout his time at Penn State, Edward has used his summers in a variety of ways.  In the summer of 2013, after his sophomore year, he worked as a field laborer for a concrete contractor working on commercial buildings.  As a prospective structural engineer, this gave him a new perspective on the construction side of the business, allowing him to see some of what works and what does not work on a job site first hand.  After his junior year in 2014, he travelled to Rome, Italy, to study at the Pantheon Institute where he took classes studying many aspects of Rome, especially its architecture.  In the summer of 2015, he worked as an intern at ARCO Design/Build Northeast in King of Prussia, PA, which gave him a great view of the entire construction process from pre-contract, through design and construction, and eventually project completion.

 

Some of Edward’s academic and professional interests are in design, and especially working as a team, as he did in the Interdisciplinary Design Studio (previously called BIM Studio) during the spring 2015 semester. In this studio he, along with 3 other architectural engineering students, an architecture student, and a landscape architecture student, competed with 4 other groups to attempt a full-building design of a new building at Penn State.  During this course, Edward served as a joint structural option and construction management option alongside the other structural student doing the same tasks, which allowed for a more broad perspective on the project.  The processes of integrated design and design-build interest him, because of some of their advantages in a leaner construction process.

 

Outside of school, Edward enjoys a variety of activities.  He has played soccer for many years, as well as having been skiing since a young age.  Edward enjoys playing baseball as well, and while in college took up golf, and really became interested in the sport.  With all of his sports experience, he would love to eventually start coaching youth sports, especially soccer as an out-of-work activity.

 

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