Matt Meier EnvE

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Matt Meier - EnvE

• Company CH2M HILL
• Position Process Mechanical
• Engineering-Intern

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Company History

• Established in 1946, here in Corvallis.
• CH2M HILL began as a professional partnership of
  Holly Cornell, James Howland, T. Burke Hayes, and
  Fred Merryfield (CH2M).
• Fred Merryfield was a CE professor here at OSU.

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Company History

• CH2M was catapulted into a national firm as a
  result of its work on the lake Tahoe advanced
  wastewater treatment facility the world's first
  major advanced wastewater treatment plant.
• In 1971, the firm merged with Clair A. Hill and
  associates (established in 1946), to become CH2M
  HILL.
• In 1977, the firm merged with BCE Black, Crow,
  and Eidsness, a company originally begun in 1951.

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Today

• CH2M HILL provides
• Program management
• Planning
• Engineering design
• Technology
• Construction
• Financing and project development services
• Nearly 200 offices on 6 continents.

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Schedule

• Monday Friday 800am 500pm
• Flex Employee Any combination of a 40hr week
  weekends and nights if so desired.
• Some overtime.

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Wages Benefits

• 14.72/hr
• Seven paid holidays throughout the year.
  (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day)
• Company BBQs, events (bowling, golf, etc.),
  white bag lunches.
• Travel

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Projects

• City of Tracy WWTP
• Grand Island WWTP
• Hydraulic modeling
• Rock Creek WWTP
• Influent pump station model

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Projects Tracy WWTP Phase 1B Expansion

• Filter Chemical Room
• Pump hydraulics AFT Fathom 5.0
• Mechanical design Pump and storage tank
  locations, pipe routing, accessories/instrumentati
  on location.
• Pump selection Contact vendors, write specs.
• Created drawings for room.
• Updated process and instrumentation diagrams
  (PID).

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Projects Tracy WWTP Phase 1B Expansion

• Equipment schedule updates
• Cost estimating

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Projects Tracy WWTP Phase 1B Expansion

• Reviewed plant hydraulics Hydro
• Designed analytical equipment panel
• Sampling pump hydraulics
• Pump spec
• Plumbing

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Projects Tracy WWTP Phase 1B Expansion

• Primary sludge pump station facility lead
• Pump hydraulics Bingham plastic model
• Pump spec
• Mechanical design air line size/locations,
  valve assembly
• Created drawings and PIDs
• More equipment specs
• Inline Mixers
• FRP Tank
• Composite Samplers

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Communications

• Weekly team meetings
• Coordination with other disciplines
• Instrumentation and control
• Electrical
• Civil
• Structural
• Architectural
• Specifications

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What I Learned

• Design basics
• Contract Documents
• Creating Specs
• Pump selection process
• Pump Curves
• Hydraulic Modeling
• Communication skills
• What the office life is like

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Key OSU Courses

• Contracts and Specifications
• Fluids/Hydraulics
• Any wastewater/water courses
• Any writing or communication courses

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Overall Impression

• Excellent firm, good employees, great work!