{"id":42449,"date":"2022-05-01T06:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T10:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=42449"},"modified":"2022-05-01T07:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:02:48","slug":"trailblazing-arielle-scalioni-building-a-civil-engineering-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/trailblazing-arielle-scalioni-building-a-civil-engineering-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailblazing Arielle Scalioni building a civil engineering career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" data-attachment-id=\"42451\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/trailblazing-arielle-scalioni-building-a-civil-engineering-career\/arielle-scalioni-22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,852\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster\/University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Arielle Scalioni, civil engineering major, stands, Monday, March 21, 2022 in the Engineering building.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1647866594&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Arielle Scalioni-22&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"First-generation student Arielle Scalioni, a civil engineering major, will be receiving her bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC. Photo by Angela Foster.\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;First-generation student Arielle Scalioni, a civil engineering major, will be receiving her bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC. Photo by Angela Foster.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;First-generation student Arielle Scalioni, a civil engineering major, will be receiving her bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC. Photo by Angela Foster.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-42451 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"First-generation student Arielle Scalioni, a civil engineering major, will be receiving her bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC this week. Photo by Angela Foster.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Arielle-Scalioni-22-2765.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-generation student Arielle Scalioni, a civil engineering major, will be receiving her bachelor\u2019s degree from UTC this week. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arielle Scalioni\u2019s path to a bachelor\u2019s degree began in an Amazon rainforest, helping build a church that doubles as a medical clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent a month there after high school. It really helped me see the effect you could have in helping construct all these infrastructures for communities,\u201d said Scalioni, who will be receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering as part of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga commencement ceremonies this Saturday, May 7, in McKenzie Arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat helped me choose civil engineering as my major.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this is not \u201cthe shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line\u201d story. Scalioni\u2019s path is full of twists and turns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h4><strong>Arielle&#8217;s journey<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arielle Scalioni\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UHwnOyw1Is?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arielle Scalioni was a featured student speaker at the 2022 Scholarship Luncheon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Scalioni and her family emigrated to the U.S. when she was 4 years old. Her parents, Carlos and Arlete, moved a lot in search of better opportunities for the family, eventually arriving in Harrison, Tennessee, around eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scalioni spent the bulk of her formative years in Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, but her mother suggested she should have an experience outside of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a third-culture kid,\u201d she explained. \u201cThat\u2019s part of our blood. We\u2019ve always liked to move and experience new places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving moved from Brazil to the U.S., I moved back there to study in a boarding school for high school. I then decided to take a break because I wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to study in college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a break in the true sense of the word, though. Scalioni enrolled at the Wildwood (Georgia) College of Health and Evangelism, now known as the Wildwood Center for Health Evangelism\u2014a missionary school with an emphasis on health.<\/p>\n<p>Scalioni soon found herself heading back to Brazil on a missionary trip to the Amazon rainforest, working with an organization called Salva-Vidas Amaz\u00f4nia\u2014part of the Miss\u00f5es Noroeste ministry in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Participating in the building of the church created an inspirational lightbulb moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe villages there are very disconnected and you have to travel by river to each village,\u201d she said, \u201cand we were there to build a church. The church is not just a place where people would be able to go and worship. It\u2019s where they would be able to come together for community events, and whenever people go there as part of traveling medical clinics, it\u2019s a place that could be their hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw how excited the people were to see that church being built and that it would bring them a lot of joy in the future, I realized that I could be doing this at a larger scale if I got an engineering degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing a female presence in civil engineering \u2018excited me\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I was really young, I liked to take things apart and see how they worked,\u201d Scalioni said, \u201cand in engineering, you need to have a basis in STEM, which is math, physics and science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get a lot of that from my dad. Even though he didn\u2019t get a college degree, he has always been an entrepreneur, and he taught me to be curious and to have that curiosity to know how things work and how things come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Scalioni returned to the area, she learned of the engineering partnership between Chattanooga State Community College and UTC. After taking care of her prerequisites, she transferred to the University.<\/p>\n<p>She originally started down an electrical engineering road \u201cbecause I thought it could be a place where, as a woman, I could be more accepted,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of people, when they think about civil engineering, think mainly construction and that you\u2019re out in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she didn\u2019t immediately envision herself as a civil engineer, she soon found that career could be an option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started taking more focused classes with female engineering professors, I realized it was a lot broader than I thought,\u201d she said. \u201cThat female presence, especially in civil engineering, excited me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also landed an electrical engineering internship with Black &amp; Veatch, a worldwide engineering firm with more than 65 U.S. locations\u2014including Chattanooga. Despite being an electric engineering intern, Black &amp; Veatch gave Scalioni the chance to shadow civil engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where I saw that civil engineering was more the field for me,\u201d Scalioni said. \u201cIt brought me back to the thoughts that I had in the Amazon when I was helping build that church for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" data-attachment-id=\"42450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/trailblazing-arielle-scalioni-building-a-civil-engineering-career\/technology-symposium-22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,868\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster\/University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Engineering Technology Symposium, Thursday, April 14, 2022 at the Chattanooga Public Library.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1649927264&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Technology Symposium-22&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Arielle Scalioni, left, participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Arielle Scalioni, left, participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Arielle Scalioni, left, participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-1024x694.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-42450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Arielle Scalioni, left, participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-2048x1388.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-580x393.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-610x413.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-250x169.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-590x400.jpg 590w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29-562x380.jpg 562w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/04\/Technology-Symposium-22-29.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arielle Scalioni, left, participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Blazing trails for Latina women engineers is a \u2018responsibility, too\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Switching from electrical to civil engineering meant more time in school, and Scalioni\u2019s total time between Chattanooga State and UTC is six years.<\/p>\n<p>But she said the extra time was worth it: A full-time position at Black &amp; Veatch awaits following graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited that I\u2019m graduating with a major that suits me best,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s brought me a lot of joy. It\u2019s brought me a lot of happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Scalioni crosses the McKenzie Arena stage, she will be receiving that degree on behalf of her entire family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a first-generation student, so college and furthering my education has always been a goal for myself and my family,\u201d she said. \u201cMy parents worked hard to give us a better life here. It means a lot to get an education, to be able to get a job and give back to them what they\u2019ve given to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her mom recently told her, \u201cIt\u2019s as if this was her degree that she was receiving,\u201d Scalioni said. \u201cEvery success I\u2019m having, she\u2019s taking it as if it was her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s so true because I\u2019m only able to be here and be able to study because of the support that they\u2019ve been able to give me throughout my college education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has become a trailblazer of sorts in her own family. Her sister, Tabata, is now studying computer science at UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Scalioni also wants to be a role model for Latina women engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing a lot more women in engineering, especially civil, than we did before,\u201d she said, \u201cso I see that it\u2019s getting better, but people who aren\u2019t American, who weren\u2019t born here, who are from different ethnicities, I do see that I can help inspire a lot of young women\u2014especially those who aren\u2019t exposed to STEM fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do hope that I could help other young girls see that it\u2019s an option. 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