Drugs and Friends When I was a teenager, one of my best friends began taking drugs. At first I did not know about it but one day I realized what my friend was doing and I felt really sad. He told me he did not do it often but I knew the problem would get worse if I did not act. It is very hard to try to convince someone not to take drugs and sometimes he thinks you are not his friend anymore and you do not want to help him. Nevertheless, I was talking and discussing with him every time he took drugs, even if he got angry. I did not care keep talking with him at home instead of go out to a party because I knew I was helping him. We used to go to the mountain as another way to keep him far of drugs. The process was long and many times very difficult but eventually I manage to convince him to stop taking drugs. After that, our relationship become stronger and we will never forget those days when we talked over midnight.

Personal Skills I have always thought the future of the earth planet will be determined in the way the problem of the energy is solved. That is why as an Engineer, working in the energy sector is one of the most exciting and heartwarming jobs you can develop. During my degree, I acquire a solid knowledge of different fields of engineering which are involved in the study of the energy extraction. I studied thermodynamics as well as gas turbines and turbofans. Furthermore, I developed a specific course on Fixed Power Plants and Cogeneration which included the thermodynamic and power analysis of the different solutions. On the other hand, I studied aerodynamics, electrical engineering, strength of material and composites. All of these subjects, among others, allowed me to do a course about wind turbines during the last year of my degree, which contained the emplacement studio of a wind farm, as well as the aerodynamic, mechanical and electrical study of a wind turbine. For all these reasons I consider I could fit in the profile you are looking for.

Implementation of changes Last year, I was working in AENA Airports (Madrid) as an intern in the Civil Engineering Division. I had to develop the Constructive Project “Valladolid Airport Runway Overlay”. Basically the project consisted in the design and calculation of a new pavement to adapt the existing runway to the ICAO rules and improve the surface roughness. Before start with my own design, I read and studied the solutions adopted in others Overlay Projects in Spanish airports. In all of them, a regularization asphalt layer was applied to achieve the design slopes and after that, a surface layer was applied in order to achieve the desired roughness. The solution was absolutely valid and satisfactory. Nevertheless, because of the raising of crude price, applying a regularization layer has become very expensive. I thought about computerized milling as a new method for the correction of runway slopes instead of the regularization layer. I designed the project surface using AutoCAD Civil 3D and I got in touch with several milling companies to discuss about the price and the viability of the computerized milling. We concluded the method was much cheaper and the company considered developing these new method in future experimental projects.