Andrew Palcan graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) with a B.S./M.S. in Architectural Engineering. He was a member of his MCAA student chapter for his final two years in school and participated in the student chapter competition and presented on stage in San Diego in 2017. He met the President of his current company in Orlando at the 2016 MCAA Convention and secured an internship for the following summer and during his final year of school. Andrew has now been with Helm for seven years. He started out as a project engineer, working with a project manager who ran his own work in their Milwaukee office. He spent most of his internship estimating and helping on a handful of small projects. Once he moved to Helm’s Chicago office, he was immediately sent out to the field to help with a pharmaceutical project as a project engineer for the sheet metal team, but eventually ended up working on both the sheet metal and process piping teams. He was onsite for about a year and then returned to the office to continue estimating industrial work. One and a half years post-graduation, he was given the opportunity to run a school job as a project manager. He worked with a piping and sheet metal foreman for about a year on the renovation, which then increased to a new build for an additional year. He’s now heavily involved with Helm’s data center projects. He’s currently managing project schedules and procurement of equipment while working with the project teams. Following graduation, Andrew knew he wanted to stay involved with MCAA and joined the Career Development Committee. He’s been to every MCAA Convention and GreatFutures Forum since 2017 to help recruit the talented students that are involved with MCAA and to assist his company in any way he could. After serving on the committee for three years, he was asked to take on the role of committee chairman.