{"id":5069,"date":"2020-05-05T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:17:09","slug":"tanmay-tripathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/tanmay-tripathi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanmay Tripathi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Tanmay-Tripathi-e1583958540613-300x300-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5091\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Tanmay-Tripathi-e1583958540613-300x300-1.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Tanmay-Tripathi-e1583958540613-300x300-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Tanmay-Tripathi-e1583958540613-300x300-1-190x190.webp 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tanmay Tripathi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Roadway Engineer, Kiewit, Denver, Colorado<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a onclick=\"window.open('mailto:\\u0074\\u0061\\u006e\\u006d\\u0061\\u0079\\u0031\\u0031\\u0074\\u0072\\u0069\\u0070\\u0061\\u0074\\u0068\\u0069\\u0040\\u0067\\u006d\\u0061\\u0069\\u006c\\u002e\\u0063\\u006f\\u006d','_blank');return false;\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.write('\\u0074\\u0061\\u006e\\u006d\\u0061\\u0079\\u0031\\u0031\\u0074\\u0072\\u0069\\u0070\\u0061\\u0074\\u0068\\u0069\\u0040\\u0067\\u006d\\u0061\\u0069\\u006c\\u002e\\u0063\\u006f\\u006d');<\/script><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graduated: May 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Degree: B.S., Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Best memories from your Valpo days:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cultural Nights and other VISA events<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How Valpo prepared you for your career path:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My experience in Valpo made me more independent, flexible, adaptive, and more accepting. It helped me to broaden my perspective. I grew a lot as an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where you are now:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-Valpo, after working for 3 years, I went for a degree at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, graduating with my master\u2019s in Construction and Infrastructure Design. After my graduation, I accepted an offer from Kiewit (America\u2019s one of the biggest Civil Engineering and Construction companies). I work as a Roadway Engineer in their Kiewit Infrastructure Engineering department and am currently acting as a homeroom team lead and a deputy lead on a multi-million dollar highway and interstate project in Dallas, Texas. I enjoy every bit of this new chapter in my life, as Kiewit is a multi-billion dollar and a Fortune 500 company with amazing opportunities to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best memories from your Valpo days: Cultural Nights and other VISA events How Valpo prepared you for your career path: My experience in Valpo made me more independent, flexible, adaptive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,92,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-international","category-international-alumni-spotlights"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"dev@eridesign.com","author_link":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/author\/deveridesign-com\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/ValpoCampus2-Resized-300x192.webp","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/alumni-spotlight\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alumni Spotlight<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/international\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">International<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/category\/international-alumni-spotlights\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">International Alumni Spotlights<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alumni Spotlight<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">International<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">International Alumni Spotlights<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 5, 2020","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 5, 2020 3:16 pm","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2025 3:17 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}