User:Mwend-NJITWILL

My Name is Michael Wendaferew, I am a senior undergraduate civil engineering student at NJIT. My passion and interest to civil engineering started when I was young. Growing up in area with a lot of development, seeing high-rise buildings and bridges construction from the beginning to end, I was always wonder how that was possible to make. Since those days I knew what I wanted to become, now I found myself achieving my dream. Now as a senior civil engineering student, I gained a lot of knowledge about structures and other engineering relating topics. I have been using Wikipedia since the time I introduced to it. I used Wikipedia to learn about topics that are new to me and to obtain quick knowledge. This time I found myself getting ready to contribute knowledge to the Wikipedia society. As my Technical Communication course assignment, I am offered an opportunity to edit one definition of an article found on Wikipedia page. Being a civil engineering student, I wanted to improve an article that was relevant to my major. After reading steel structural design, and reinforced concrete design book, I found a whole chapter on compression member. I submitted a general proposal for this topic to my professor DR. Jim Lipuma.