We are happy to welcome our 2009 summer interns!
We have four Fire Protection interns and one Business Development intern. We look forward to working with them and helping develop tomorrow's professionals.
James Surber is a Fire Protection Intern from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is a senior in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University. Jimmy is a member of the Ripley Volunteer Fire Department and the Fire Protection Society.
Rebecca Bennett is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is in the fourth year of her Architectural Engineering degree at The University of Kansas. Rebecca is the co-chair president of the Architectural Engineering Institute at KU and is a member of the engineering honors society Tau Beta Pi.
Ben Craig is a junior at Oklahoma State University from Uniontown, Ohio. This is his second year as an intern with us. Ben's major is Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology. He is the president of the student chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the treasurer of the Fire Protection Society, and a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Ripley Volunteer Fire Department.
Alyssa Steffen is a senior from Winfield, Kansas, majoring in Strategic Communications at The University of Kansas. She is the president of the KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America.
Drew Poole is a junior in Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Drew is from Spring Hill, Kansas. He belongs to the National Fire Protection Association and the Silver Spring Fire Department as a Fire Fighter and Emergency Medical Technician. The son of Jack and Laura Poole, Drew has been officially interning for the past four summers, but has been participating in the family business his whole life.
Western Auto Renovation Poole Fire Protection designed the fire sprinkler system and provided construction management during the system’s installation as part of the Western Auto Building’s renovation into loft apartments.
Forbes Field Operations and Training Center Poole Fire Protection served as the fire protection engineer, designing and developing the building’s fire sprinkler and fire alarm system, including a wet pipe sprinkler system for the building.
Building #150 Poole Fire Protection reviewed the fire alarm drawings for the Great Lakes Naval Station's Building #150 to verify compliance with NFPA 72 (2002 Edition).
Hutchinson Correctional Facility Poole Fire Protection designed an automatic sprinkler system to retrofit an attic area at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility for Cell Houses A, B, C, D and the Rotunda Building.