William Buchko

Bill Buchko grew up in McKees Rocks, PA, approximately 7 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, PA.  Even when he was young Bill had a passion for buildings and you could often find him standing on the front porch railing staring at the Pittsburgh skyline.  By the time he was entering high school Bill knew that he wanted to work with buildings.  Recognizing his math and logic skills, Bill’s cousin suggested that he go into Architectural Engineering at Penn State, from where he had received his Landscape Architecture degree.  Four years later Bill arrived at Penn State for his freshman year ready for Architectural Engineering, Structures Option.

While completing the AE program Bill was given numerous opportunities to learn outside of the Penn State classroom.  During Fall Semester of 2006 he completed an exchange program at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England.  This experience taught him much about cultures and traditions in addition to time management and organization skills.  He has also been exposed to the “Real World” during a summer internship with Cenkner Engineering Associates, Inc. during the summer of 2007.  While there he was able to work on structural design of multi-million dollar homes as well as small scale commercial and industrial projects.  Since CEA, Inc. is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm Bill was also able to aid in designs within the Mechanical, Electrical, Lighting, and Plumbing fields.  Bill was also involved in the creation of templates, plot styles, and company standards within AutoCAD.

Any free time Bill has is usually spent with one of his hobbies or organizations.  Because of a deep love of volunteer work and traveling, Bill has been involved with Project Haiti and has traveled to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic during Spring Breaks.  He also has founded Project Dominican, a group modeled after Project Haiti, but geared toward providing young adults in the Pittsburgh area with opportunities to visit with and help the poor.  Religion is also extremely important to Bill.  He is a member of the Newman Catholic Student Society as well as a 2nd degree charter member of the Penn State council of the Knights of Columbus. When Bill is not busy with any of these activities, you can usually find him working on computers and electronics.

Upon graduation Bill will be working at Barry Isett and Associates, Inc. He is excited to become a part of their engineering team.