She’s Ready to Rumble

DOZER SKILLS: CEE senior Charlotte Wong receives instruction on how to drive a Caterpillar D4H bulldozer from operator Joe Shryock. Wong then drove the 22,000-pound machine solo. She and fellow students from CE 177, Foundation Engineering Design, were on a voluntary field trip earlier this semester with CEE guest lecturer Richard Short to try their hand at operating earthwork equipment. “I want them to know what this equipment feels like, the horsepower of it, so it’s not abstract terminology,” says Short.

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