Fabian Zamores Rodriguez is currently in his 5th year at Penn State University. He is expected to graduate Fall 2019 with a Bachelors in Architectural Engineering with a focus on Construction. Fabian has been a member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) since Freshman year. He has also been involved in the Mexican-American Student Association as member of the executive board, being treasurer for two years and public relations chair for another.

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In the summer of 2016, Fabian was hired in the Office of Physical Plant as an intern in the Contract Administration division. While at the internship Fabian focused on prequalifying subcontractors to do work at Penn State. To do this he reviewed the subcontractors’ finances, bond, insurance, and EMR. He was also tasked with calling their references and get input in their quality of work. For the last two summers (2017/2018) Fabian has been interning with Whiting-Turner and is scheduled to intern with them again summer 2019. For the past two summers he worked on two different supermarkets, which he decided to use as his thesis topic. His main tasks as intern included reviewing submittals, submitting RFIs, performing QC, and assisting with progress reports. Being bilingual in Spanish and English was a skill that Fabian was able to take advantage of during his internships as he was able to translate and communicate with the subcontractors’ laborers that did not speak English. Overall, Fabian learned a lot about the construction industry while in school and through his three internships and will be very helpful when he enters the industry full time.