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With one of our key U.S. clients, I noticed every weekly status call turned into a 60–75 minute detective session. They’d say, “I’m not seeing this in the deck,” or, “Where are we against the original plan?” Even though we were doing the work, our updates were scattered across slides, Jira, and email threads, and the client’s VP had lost confidence in our predictability. I proposed a single-page, color‑coded status brief that we sent 24 hours before the meeting. It had three consistent sections: what shipped, what slipped (with causes and mitigations), and what was coming next, all tied to the original roadmap. I also cut the meeting to 30 minutes and shifted deep dives to ad‑hoc follow‑ups. Within six weeks, meeting time dropped by 40%, “what’s the status of X?” questions in email fell by about 60%, and our client satisfaction survey for communication jumped from 7.1 to 9.0 out of 10.
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In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
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