Engineering Civil

RAMAPRIYA KOPALAKRISHNAN

Asian Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 4, Klong Luang Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand

Email: *************@*****.***

Mobile: +66-615-******

CAREER OBJECTIVES

My eventual career goal is to gain and develop my knowledge and skills in the field of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering and to specialize in the area of Transportation Engineering, related to Transportation Planning and Sustainable Transportation practices, and develop my expertise in the Geometric Design of Highways and other transportation related disciplines.

EDUCATION

B.Sc. in Engineering in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand – May 2016

Capstone Project – Evaluating the Quality of Asphalt Mixtures Using the Superpave Gyratory Compactor

CGPA – 3.30/4.00

Edexcel G.C.E Advanced Level, Royal Institute of Colombo, Sri Lanka – 2009-2011

Achieved 2‘A’s for Core Mathematics with Statistics, and Physics, and ‘B’ for Chemistry

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

Engineering Trainee – Department of Highways, Thailand – May 2015 – July 2015

Key Responsibilities – Trained under the following departments: Bureau of Planning, Office of Environment and Public Involvement, Bureau of Location and Design, Bureau of International Highways Cooperation, Bureau of Materials testing, Inspection and Analysis, Bureau of Maintenance Management

Achievements – Developed a MATLAB Program to geometrically design a Highway Overpass and Underpass for the given site data, and correlating it with the results obtained from AutoCAD Civil 3D, Four-step model of Transport Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment, Air- Pollution Modelling for a given highway, Material testing of Asphalt, Concrete and Steel, Maintenance Strategies of Highways, Budget allocation, and experience on the Thailand Pavement Management System (TPMS)

Trainee – International Construction Consortium, Sri Lanka – June 2014 – August 2014

Key Responsibilities – Quality Assurance, Site Supervision for concreting, reinforcements, formworks, and other building construction stages. Responsible for Cube Testing of Concrete, Maintaining building-related documents such as Test reports of concrete, steel and cement, shop drawings, main drawings. Writing Method Statements for all the stages of building construction starting from excavation to plastering and painting.

Achievements – Was appointed as the Quality Assurance Engineer from the third week of training, assisted the Site Manager with all the documentation, supervised construction works in all the floors of the precast building construction site

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree Capstone Project - Evaluating the Quality of Asphalt Mixtures Using the Superpave Gyratory Compactor – under the advisory of Dr. Auckpath Sawangsuriya (DOH), Dr. Kunnawee Kanitpong, Dr. Pham Huy Giao (May 2016)

Praxis Project – Designing and Modelling of a Single Span Arch Bridge to the existing Nine-Arch Bridge in Demodara, Sri Lanka – Under the advisory of Dr. Kushan Wijesundara (May 2014)

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Possess fluent written and verbal communication skills in English, Spanish, Tamil and Sinhalese

Leadership Qualities and Team Member – Can carry a team forward with good leadership skills and positive outlook, listens to others’ word of mouth, and acts a good team member in stating creative ideas and opinions

Proficient in presentation and communication skills

Public speaking

Hard-working and Self-disciplined

SOFTWARE AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Microsoft Office – MS Project 2013, MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint

MATLAB (R2010a, R2013a), JAVA (Oracle)

AutoCAD Civil 3D

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Dean’s List – For achieving a GPA of 3.77 in January Semester 2016

Received an ‘A’ grade for the Capstone Project (May 2016)

Ranked in the first 5% of the class in High School (2009-2011)

Achieved a percentile of 76.5 in the IGNOU-UNESCO Science Olympiad in 2010

VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE

Volunteered in the AIT Student Union as – Secretary, Campus and Environment Committee (August 2015)

Member of SAITM Research Symposium Organizing Committee

Senior Prefect, Royal Institute International School of Higher Education (2009-2011)

REFERENCES

Dr. Auckpath Sawangsuriya,

Bureau of Research and Development,

Department of Highways,

Si Ayuththaya Road, Phayathai, Ratchathewi,

Bangkok 10400,

Thailand.

Email: ************@*****.***

Mobile: +668********

Dr. Rajeev Mallawarachchi,

Head of the Department,

Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering,

Faculty of Engineering,

South Asian Institute of Technology & Medicine (SAITM), Malabe,

Sri Lanka.

E: ******.*@*****.***.**

P: +94-11-241-****, Ext: 208

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