01
Problem
What was the pavilion like before, and what couldn’t happen there because of it? Two or three sentences. Useful to pin down:
- Who uses the pavilion, and for what.
- What the electrical situation was when you started.
- How the project came to you — who asked, or what you noticed.
02
Requirements & constraints
What the finished system had to do, and what limited how you could get there.
- What the church asked for — light levels, where outlets needed to be, what equipment had to run there.
- Budget, and where materials came from.
- What the existing service could supply, and how that shaped the design.
- Schedule, weather, or access constraints.
- Requirements that came from the Eagle project process itself.
- Codes, permitting, or approvals that applied.
03
Design
The decisions you made before anyone picked up a tool, and the reasoning behind them.
Your resume says you created diagrams for this — those are the single most valuable thing you can add to this page. A photo of a hand-drawn plan is fine; it does not need to be CAD.
- How you laid out the circuits, and what determined the split.
- What set the conductor sizing and the breaker ratings.
- How you chose fixtures and their placement.
- Any calculation you ran — load, voltage drop, fixture count — and the numbers it produced.
- An option you considered and rejected, and why.
photo or scan of the original
Caption it with what a reader should notice — not just “circuit diagram.”
| Circuit | Serves | Conductor | OCPD | Load |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — |
04
Build
Running the work, and running the crew.
- How you sequenced the work across the days you had.
- The safety briefing — what you covered, and how you decided what to cover. Your resume notes you trained six scouts before anyone touched wiring; say what that training consisted of.
- How you assigned tasks given the range of experience on the crew.
- What went differently than planned, and what you did about it.
crew working
a box, a run, a panel
05
Verification
How you knew it was right before you handed it over.
- What you checked, with what instrument, and what you were looking for.
- Whether it was inspected, by whom, and the result.
- Anything that failed a check the first time, and what you changed.
- How the pavilion is being used now, four years on.
06
What I’d do differently
This section does more work than any other on the page. An engineer who can name a specific decision they’d revisit — and say what they know now that they didn’t then — reads very differently from one who presents a project as flawless. Be concrete and technical rather than general.
Two or three items. For each: the decision, what you’d change, and what changed your mind — a course, the internship, something that showed up later in service.