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I have officially been with Trinity for a full year. having my one year anniversary pass got me thinking to where I started a year ago and where I am now. I came to Trinity with absolutely no environmental background. I was a mechanical engineer who had never taken a single environmental class. In truth, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But one year later, I love what I'm doing and I couldn't be happier I took the leap in joining Trinity instead of going the traditional MechE route.
On the day of my anniversary, I gave what we call at Trinity a brownbag. A brownbag is basically an internal, informal training session given by someone in the office to the rest of the office. I gave my presentation on the new NSPS and SIP regulations for commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators (the CISWI rules). A year ago, I didn't know what NSPS or SIP stood for (in case you also don't know: New Source Performance Standards and State Implementation Plans), much less what a CISWI unit was and somehow a year later I found myself giving a presentation about these regulations to people who have been in this industry far longer than me. Giving this presentation made me realize how much I have learned in this past year but also how much there will always be to learn. Environmental regulations are always changing. Even people who have been in this industry 20 plus years are continuously learning new things. I've enjoyed my first year at Trinity and have learned a lot, I look to this next year, excited about what I will learn this time around.