Respected Sir/Madam,

I am a second year Civil Engineering

student of IIT DELHI. I am looking for a summer
internship in the field of civil engineering.

I am looking for an opportunity which

can provide me a chance to have a real life
practical experience in this field.

So, I request you to please provide me

with an opportunity to work under you, this will be
a great help for me in my future. I assure you Sir
that I will try my level best to satisfy you during
my training.

I am attaching my brief CV below for

your kind perusal and looking forward to an
opportunity to present my credentials to you in
person.
Kind Regards,
Gaurav Prakash
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT DELHI, New Delhi
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EMAIL: iitd_prakash@yahoo.co.in
emailgprakash@gmail.com

GAURAV PRAKASH

OBJECTIVE:

To secure a mentally challenging and highly stimulating Summer

Internship, which provides me with:
•An opportunity for analytical thinking and learning while facing
diverse problems.
•An exposure to enhance my analytical and technical skills in Civil
engineering through practical problem solving experiences.

EDUCATION:

• IIT Delhi, Pursuing Bachelor of Technology in Civil engineering

from Indian Institute of Technology,New Delhi.

• Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, New Delhi, 2001-2003

Secured 81.6% in class XII board examinations conducted
By CBSE, New Delhi.

• Don Bosco Academy, Patna, 1993-2001

Secured 90.4 % in class X board Examinations (2001) Conducted
By ICSE, New Delhi.

PROJECTS DONE AND PAPER SUBMITTED:

• Member of IIT Delhi Abu Pacific Robocon Team for 2005:

The project consist of building two robots one manual and one
automatic robot for playing a basketball kind of match as
specified by the committee .The first round is for the national
qualifier at Pune. The final is scheduled to be held at Beijing.
 • Departmental presentation on Bridge designing of Arch bridge:
This project consisted of giving presentation on a kind of bridge
suitable for a given hilly terrain. We did this by selecting arch
bridge for this purpose. It was required to show all the
calculation needed for the stable design of this bridge.

• Structural analysis of Bridge Akashi Kaikyo: It was a minor paper

presentation on the working and stability of Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
in Japan through all calculation and the major important features
of this bridge which made it a great miracle of engineering.

• Term paper on Quarks: It was a paper presentation for a

humanities course. It consisted of giving all the detailed
information about the microscopic particle the quarks, i.e their
origin, behavior and special properties.

AREAS OF INTREST:

• Concrete materials and designs.

• Structural Engineering.

• Environmental Engineering.

COURSES DONE:

• Fluids mechanics and Solid Mechanics.

• Applied mechanics.
• Material Science: Structure of materials and mechanical
behaviors.
• Basic Science: Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry.
• Computer Sciences and Introduction to High level programming.
• Structural Analysis of Simple Architectural Designs.
• Transportation Engineering.
• Hydraulics and Hydrology.
• Surveying.
• Environmental engineering.
• Concrete materials and designs.
• Design of Hydraulic Structures.
• Engineering Geology and Soil mechanics.
• Design concept in Civil Engineering.(Practical course)
Humanities Courses:

• Philosophy of Science.
• Indian English Poetry.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Software: DOS, Windows 98, 2000, XP, NT, MS OFFICE, AutoCAD 2000

Languages: C++, Java, GWBASIC, SML

LABORATORY EXPERIENCE:

Most of the courses done by me had a laboratory component. The

fields in which I have a basic laboratory experience are :

• Study of slabs and beams under different loading condition to

test their strength and serviceability. Designing RC beams and
slabs using different combination of materials.

• The hydraulic design of the canals involving the concept of

hydraulic jump and critical flow in canals.

• Surveying of an area using theodolite and plane tables which

involved the measuring the area, volume etc. It also involved
curve setting.

• Measurement of the strength of the road material using different

combination of materials for the transportation system. Design of
roads for different traffic volume by surveying on a road for the
speed of vehicles and their frequencies.

• Experiment involving the measurement of shear strength of

different soils for laying the foundations of structures.
Studying the properties of different rocks and their uses.
Studying compressibility permeability and consolidation of soils
through experiment.

• Structural analysis of different models under different load

conditions for their stability and deflections (different kinds
of trusses)

• Study of properties of contaminated and waste water like

turbidity, BOD, COD to test the suitability of water for drinking
and the existence of aquatic life in it. The presence of microbes
in water and other contaminate.
ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Cleared the IIT-JEE exam securing the rank 2315, putting myself
up in the top 1% student.

• Secured the highest mark in science in clss X in North India

region.

• Scholar (2001-2003), Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram for

Continuous Meritorious performance.

• Secured top 1% position in Mathematics Olympiad conducted by

University of New South Wales.

INTRESTS AND POSITIONS HELD:

• Actively engaged in National Social Service (NSS) of which I am
currently and Executive at IIT Delhi.

• Activity Head of Security Team during Rendezvous’04.

• Vice Captain of School Cricket Team (1998-2001).

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• Active participation in Hobbies Society, Hindi Samiti, Fine
Arts Club and Dance and Dramatics Club at institute level.

• Activity head of the event Space odyssey in the annual technical

fest TRYST of IIT DELHI.