Ty Sawyers is a 4th year civil engineering student at the University of Ottawa currently completing his co-op requirements. He has worked as an engineering assistant for Crozier & Associates for the past year where he assisted with structural design projects including wood condominiums, industrial buildings, and retaining walls. He also helped design an accessibility upgrade for a retirement home. Sawyers maintains a high GPA and has received academic scholarships for his performance.

1. Programmes d'enseignement
coopératif
Co-operative education
programs
Pavillon Desmarais Desmarais Building
55, avenue Laurier est, 3e étage 55 Laurier Avenue East, 3rd floor
Ottawa (Ontario), Canada K1N 6N5 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
Nº DE TÉL. : (613)562-5741 Tel. no.:(613)562-5741
Nº de téléc. : (613)562-5108 Fax no.:(613)562-5108
Curriculum vitae Resumé
Last Update: February 2, 2017
PERSONAL DATA
Ty Sawyers
54 Maplewood Drive
Amaranth (Ontario)
L9V 3N6
Language of correspondence Citizenship
ENGLISH Canadian
Employment Equity Security clearance
ACADEMIC DATA
Program of studies Bachelor of Applied Science
Civil Engineering(Co-op)
Year Level 4
Cumulative grade point
average
8.07 letter equivalent of university of
ottawa cumulative grade point
average
10=A+ 9=A 8=A- 7=B+ 6=B
0=F
5=C+ 4=C 3=D+ 2=D 1=E
Work term information
Term Employer Overall evaluation
1. 2015, Summer Cree Nation of Wemindji Excellent
2. 2016, Winter Crozier & Associates Very Good
3. 2016, Summer Crozier & Associates Excellent
4. 2016, Fall Crozier & Associates Exceptional
* a blank field in the - overall evaluation - column means that the evaluation has not yet been submitted by the employer

2. Ty Sawyers
EDUCATION
September 2013 - May 2018 BASc in Civil Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON
Finished 2.5 years of Civil Engineering program with plans to study structural
engineering in last year.
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ACHIEVEMENTS
Obtained University of Ottawa's 80% admission scholarship (annual value of
1000$)
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Currently have a CPGA of 8.0.•
September 2009 - June 2013 High School Diploma
Centre Dufferin District High School, Shelburne ON
Awards/Accomplishments
Obtained honour scroll for having at least an 80% average in academic classes
every year
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Member of Athletic Council for 3 years helping organize school athletic events•
Played on badminton and dodgeball teams for 4 years, rugby for 1•
SKILLS
Engineering Analyzed the different properties of steel, concrete and wood using a series of
laboratory experiments (sieve analysis, concrete batching, tension test, etc.) Also
seen concrete cylinder/slump/air tests done on field;
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Very knowledgeable in investigating different types of structures (trusses, frames,
beams, etc.);
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Surveying skills were developed in 2nd year surveying class as well as actual
experience site surveying and lot grading plans from previous work experience;
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Good basic knowledge of AutoCAD design obtained from introductory design
class as well as experience working on actual structural design drawings in
previous work experience;
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Knowledge of different soil properties and currently learning how to design earth
structures in soil mechanics class;
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Gained water resources engineering knowledge from Fluid Mechanics course
including doing labs analyzing the force of water along a sluice gate and the flow
of water along a channel;
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Project management skills obtained in past work experience;•
Gained engineering knowledge in structural engineering from previous work
experience, see work experience section for more details;
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Very familiar working with wood, concrete and steel design codes;•
Extremely experienced working with structural design projects including
renovations, residential &industrial design, timber frame design, earthwork
designs, etc.;
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Very familiar with numerous construction processes, building permit applications,
site investigations, etc.;
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Very knowledge with Ontario Building Code and National Building code with
experience working in part 3, part 4 and part 9 of OBC, and;
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Excellent at reading and interpreting architectural, structural and shop drawings
for buildings, retaining walls, bridges, roadway design, etc.
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3. Computer Multimedia
Knowledgeable in Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw.•
Microsoft Office
Very good understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint;•
Intermediate course taken in high school for all common components of Microsoft
Office;
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Designed budget template in Excel to keep track of the budget available in a PO
for certain projects in previous experience, and;
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Designed many different spreadsheets to aid in structural calculations in previous
work experience.
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Internet
Conducted many research papers in high school;•
Great researching abilities;•
Created dropbox filing system to organize over 4 GB of documentation in
previous work term, and;
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Conducted many research projects in previous work experience.•
Programming
Obtained a B+ in an introductory C programming course;•
Learned the basics of R programming in 2nd year course, and;•
Learned useful skills with Matlab and Visual Basic in Excel (including setting
functions, graphing, solving equations, etc.).
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Teamwork Worked on many group projects during high school, such as a group
presentation on the Great Gatsby in grade 12 English or working with a partner to
rebuild a desktop computer that was disassembled in computer engineering;
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Worked with 7 colleagues to demonstrate understanding of glass fiber reinforced
concrete by presenting in front of civil engineering materials class;
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Continue to perform many group lab experiments and reports in various
university courses;
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Participated in many group meetings to discuss important matters that needed
clarifying involving projects I was involved in;
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Worked with engineering firms and contractors to coordinate the works of
different projects (including scheduling, funding, documentation, etc.);
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Experience working with professional engineers, architects, manufacturers and
clients on a variety of different structural projects;
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Attended meetings in office and on site for various strucutral projects including a
site meeting for a 6 storey; wood condominium in Barrie, ON, and;
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Worked alonside E.I.T.'s and professional engineers on a variety of structural
projects.
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Communication Written Skills:
Written, and edited many lab reports in high school and university;•
Edited numerous letters/emails for previous supervisors;•
Experience writing numerous structural building assessments, structural sign-off
letters, lot grading certifications, drainage investigations, etc. during previous
work experience, and;
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Extremely good at sending responses to client questions &inquiries.•
Oral Skills:
Got 5% bonus marks in Materials class for doing a presentation on fiber glass
reinforced concrete;
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4. Able to communicate thoughts and idea's between classmates in a very effective
manner;
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Corresponding to many emails between professionals and contractors in
previous work experience;
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Attended numerous meetings in previous work experience discussing project
progress, project changes or any issues that may have arised with the project
(including meeting with architect and steel manufacturer and going through all
changes that needed to be made for 56 pages of steel shop drawings), and;
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Communicating numerous ideas to E.I.T.'s and engineers to improve efficiency of
projects (including designing a spreadsheet that can design all simply supported
beams for a multi-storey building with few parameters being entered).
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WORK EXPERIENCE
July 2010 - Semptember 2014 General Mill Employee / Saturday Supervisor
Sawyers Feed Mill Ltd
Worked throughout the week serving and dealing with customers developing
great social skills with customers
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Quick thinking and very good problem solving skills were needed as the building
was very old and breakdowns/repairs were needed regularly
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Experience working overtime during busy seasons•
Developed excellent teamwork abilities working with the same 10 people•
Helped to improve productivity by thinking of new ideas that would speed up
bagging/loading feed (example: using one man to fill bags, one to sow, and one
to cart them)
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Obtained great leadership skills supervising and training part time and full time
employees
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Kept motivated by always finding something to clean or repair if there was a slow
day
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May 20th, 2015 - August 28th,
2015
Assistant Capital Projects Coordinator
Cree Nation of Wemindji
Received all emails/questions corresponding towards capital projects being
undertaken in Wemindji and had to help maintain good relations between all
professionals, fellow employees and contractors.
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Built filing system using dropbox for all documents that are needed for a capital
project to qualify for funding from the Cree Nation Government (CNG).
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Observed the progress of all capital projects and took daily update photographs
and would check to see if there were any issues with the project that would have
to be dealt with.
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Worked with the local Cree contracting company helping to improve
communication skills with the First Nation Peoples.
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Helped with important engineering tests on site (example when pouring the
concrete foundation for a local warehouse I helped perform the air tests as well
as fill cylinders for the 7/28 day concrete strength test).
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Attended many meetings &presentations developing good communication
&written skills taking notes at every meeting. (Also helped create/present a
Capital Projects presentation for the town of Wemindji during our annual general
assembly meetings)
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Learned important project management skills from project management textbook•

5. (example learned about the different phases of projects and the differences
between quality control &assurance).
Kept track of the budgets for all projects including making a template that would
calculate how much money is remaining in a project once all invoices were
entered.
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Created different purchase orders for all projects and ensured that all invoices
were paid accordingly.
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January 2016 - December 2016 Engineering Assistant
Crozier & Associates
I worked as an engineering assistant at Crozier &Associates for a year in order to
fufill my co-op requirements. During my year at Crozier &Associates I primarily
worked with structural design projects but I also had experience working with
transportation projects, water resource projects, land development projects, building
science projects and lot grading design. My main duties included assisting
professional engineers and E.I.T's with any projects they were working on, this
included wood condominium design, industrial building design, residential design,
retaining wall design, work on renovations and site investigations. I would help to
complete design by performing some of the tasks listed below:
Structural member design using CSA, CISC and CWC standards (beams,
columns, joists, walls bracing, etc.);
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Foundation design (sizing of footings, slabs, concrete beams/columns, specifying
rebar sizes, etc.);
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Connection design (drawing details for wood/steel/concrete member connections
+ specifying bolt sizes, welds or Simpson Strong Tie Connectors);
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Retaining wall design (sizing for overturning moment, sliding &toe crushing);•
Reviewing structural drawings produced by technicians and marking changes to
be made;
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Reviewing shop drawings (steel, wood, rebar, etc.);•
Helping technicians with AutoCad drawings when busy;•
Surveying on site (lot grading plans, investigations);•
Preparing site investigation reports (drainage investigations, structural building
assessments);
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Preparing tender documentation to be sent to possible contractors, and;•
Preparing drawings and report submissions that were to be sent out.•
Please see below for some of the major projects I worked on during my work terms.
Galleries Condominium (E1, E2 &E3)
Strucutal design of 3, 6 storey wood framed residential buildings in Barrie, ON;•
Created excel spreadsheet to design all beams, columns and joists in building;•
Sized all strip footings, pad footings, concrete columns &beams for 2 parking
garages as well as specifying rebar for concrete members;
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Design of underground parking ramp slab, walls &beam;•
Drawing numerous construction connection details (concrete column to wood
column, wood joists to beam, wall sections, etc.)
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Reviewing drawings to ensure structural integrity;•
Reviewing shop drawings to ensure conformace to our produced drawings and
applicable building code, and;
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Attending site meetings to address additional items to be designed.•
Also performed many of the same tasks with different residential condominiums and
industrial buildings including a similar 6 storey wood building in Barrie called

6. Junction, the design of an addition for Linear Transfer Automation and numerous
housing design projects in the Collingwood area.
Raglan Village Accessibility Design
Design of an accessibility upgrade plan for a retirement facility in Collingwood,
ON;
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Wanted to make below grade parking garage more accessible;•
Studying of given plan view drawings of parking garage;•
Reviewing applicable part 3 and part 9 of OBC for accessibilty requirements;•
Designing accessibility ramp to replace stairs from entrance to parking garage;•
Adjusting floor grades to suit accessibility ramp requirements, and;•
Researching possible lifts for areas where there is not enough room for an
accessibility ramp.
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Please contact to hear more about the numerous projects I worked on while at
Crozier &Associates.
OTHER INFORMATION
Volunteering work and
involvement
Regularly volunteered to help run time-clock and scoresheet for the Shelburne
Minor Hockey Association (2008-2013);
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Shelburne Fall Fair (2011,2012) helping to run different events (tractor pull, 50-
50);
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Volunteered with different activities during my stay in Wemindji (including a
fishing derby (Wemindji Walleye Derby) and different sports tournaments);
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Participated in Bowl for Kids Sake 2016 in Collingwood, ON to raise money for
Big Brothers and Big Sisters Canada, and;
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Participated in Polar Bear Dip 2016 in Collingwood, ON to raise money for
Collingwood G&M Hospital Foundation.
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Hobbies Sports, snowmobiling, staying active, weight lifting, hiking, fishing, exploring,
camping and biking.
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REFERENCES
Chris Boyce
Associate
Crozier & Associates
Chris was my supervisor during my year at Crozier
&Associates. Specialzing in structural engineering Chris
has been the lead P.Eng in Crozier's structural department
for the past 5-6 years. I worked closely with Chris on
almost all structural projects I worked on, gaining valuable
insight on structural engineering.
705-446-3510
cboyce@cfcrozier.ca
Stephen Hamelin
Structural Designer
Crozier & Associates
Stephen is a structural E.I.T. that will be eligible to write his
engineering exam by the end of 2017. He is extremely
experience with all structural design elements and would
often coordinates work given from Chris to me and other
junior E.I.T's. I was always able to come ask Stephen
questions, or for work if I was light on a given day. Working
closey with Stephen I was able to learn many important
aspects of structural engineering design.
705-446-3510
shamelin@cfcrozier.ca

7. Ty Sawyers
Courses
Code Title Term Grade Units
2013, Fall
MAT1320 CALCULUS I C+ 3.00
GNG1105 ENGINEERING MECHANICS A- 3.00
CHM1311 PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY A 3.00
GNG1106 ENGINEERING COMPUTATION B+ 3.00
ENG1112 TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING A 3.00
CGPA 7.6
2014, Winter
MAT1341 INTRO. TO LINEAR ALGEBRA B+ 3.00
MAT1322 CALCULUS II C+ 3.00
GEO1111 INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SYSTEMS B+ 3.00
CVG1107 CIVIL ENG. GRAPHICS & SEMINARS A 3.00
PHY1122 FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS II B 3.00
CGPA 7.2
2014, Fall
MAT2377 PROB. & STATS. FOR ENGINEERS C+ 3.00
MAT2384 ORDINARY DIFF EQ.& NUM. METHOD A- 3.00
CVG2141 CIVIL ENGINEERING MATERIALS A- 3.00
CVG2149 CIVIL ENGINEERING MECHANICS A+ 3.00
MAT2322 CALCULUS III FOR ENGINEERS A- 3.00
CVG2132 FUND OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENG A 3.00
CGPA 7.5
2015, Winter
CVG2107 GEOTECH MATERIAL AND PROCESSES A 3.00
CVG2181 NUM. MODELLING CIVIL ENG. A- 3.00
ECO1192 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS A 3.00
CVG2140 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS I A+ 3.00
CVG2116 INTRO TO FLUID MECHANICS A- 3.00
CVG2171 SURVEYING & MEASUREMENTS A 3.00
CGPA 7.86
2015, Summer
CVG2901 CO-OP WORK TERM I P 3.00
CGPA 7.86
2015, Fall
CVG3140 THEORY OF STRUCTURES I A 3.00
CVG3109 SOIL MECHANICS I A 3.00
CVG3116 HYDRAULICS A+ 3.00
CVG3120 HYDROLOGY A 3.00
PHI2394 SCIENTIF. THOUGHT & SOC.VALUES B+ 3.00

8. PHI2394 SCIENTIF. THOUGHT & SOC.VALUES B+ 3.00
CVG3141 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS II A 3.00
CGPA 8.07
2016, Winter
CVG3901 CO-OP WORK TERM II P 3.00
CGPA 8.07
2016, Summer
CVG3902 CO-OP WORK TERM III P 3.00
CGPA 8.07
2016, Fall
CVG4901 CO-OP WORK TERM IV 3.00
CGPA 8.07
2017, Winter
CVG3148 REINFORCED CONCRETE DESIGN I 3.00
CVG3106 SOIL MECHANICS II 3.00
CVG3132 PHYS/CHEM OPERATIONS OF WATER 3.00
CVG3147 STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN I 3.00
GNG4170 ENGINEERING LAW 3.00
CGPA 8.07
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Legend
Grades
10=A+ 9=A 8=A- 7=B+ 6=B 5=C+ 4=C 3=D+ 2=D 1=E 0=F
Symbols
()= Credits not granted *= Excluded from average ABS= Absence
ADD= Additional to requirements AUD= Auditrice/auditor CR= Credit
CTN= Continuing DFR= deferred DNW= See: ABS
DR= Dropped H= Honours HP= Out-of-program
EIN= Failure/Incomplete NC= No credit NNR= Not available
NS= Unsatisfactory P= Pass S= Satisfactory
SCO= Insufficient credits