Meet Darin Gates, 2019 Summer Intern

Darin is a junior at Purdue University majoring in Environmental and Ecological Engineering.

What was your first impression of Metric?

I was honestly surprised how big it was. I knew it was a smaller company, but I really thought there were only like 5 people that worked here. There’s actually four times as many!

What has surprised you about working at Metric?

It shouldn’t have come as a shock but keeping track of my hourly time according to the different projects was surprising. Every other job I’ve done, I was doing the same thing the entire shift. At Metric, I’ll work on multiple different projects during a single day, and I have to log my timesheet accordingly.

What do find the most challenging about working at Metric?

Having to get bitten by mosquitos and ticks outside! And learning how to use Arc GIS more extensively, but that’s not too hard.

Why did you decide to go into this field? Who/what influenced this decision?

Aerospace was boring! I like chemistry and biology in environmental engineering. (Environmental) is one of the most important engineering fields because we’ll need more of an emphasis on the environment in the next generations.