Ol\u00e1! My name is Ursula Muzic and I\u2019m from Croatia, Zagreb. I attended a Master of Civil Engineering \u2013 Building Construction, which started in October, 2016 and finished in February, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After completing a professional training program in Germany, in 2012, my acquired experience opened the door to a future career and my first job as a Civil Engineer at a construction site. Afterwards, I worked in a construction company, specialized in design engineering and construction supervision, while continuing my studies in Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What motivated me to apply for a Master\u2019s at Polit\u00e9cnico de Leiria? I still remember my first job interview at the age of 22. I was asked to describe my work day as a professional trainee in Germany, since it was the only experience I had up to that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What followed was my vivid presentation of acquired competencies and knowledge, experience of working in a positive environment and an insight into German business culture and their mastery of planning and discipline. I succeeded in getting the job and everything I was striving for in my professional life. It was outstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I find challenging is coping with new opportunities and learning from the top quality experts. I wanted to fulfill my professional knowledge and that was the main reason for choosing IPLeiria, and Portugal, as my new destination. I\u2019ve also hoped to return to my homeland with a valuable and enriching experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New friendships, traditions, culture and learning the dominant and vigorous Portuguese language definitely made a strong and memorable impact on my life. Moving to Portugal was a journey into the unknown. My past experience and accumulated skills helped me to concentrate on my new learning opportunities. Civil Engineering may simply be defined as a problem solving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, I love my vocation. This job is dynamic, creative and the pursuit of excellence, a long-term improvement and an ongoing education I see as my permanent goals. I was striving for the excellence, new ideas, solutions and the ways of thinking \u2013 and the professors at IPLeiria definitely met my expectations, especially professor Hugo Rodrigues, whose lectures I really liked to attend. I had a clear vision and my goals seemed attainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the moment I\u2019m working as a Construction Engineer and Manager in Croatia, Zagreb. I have my own small business and projects regarding arts and crafts. Creativity is my passion, so when I\u2019m not at the Construction site, I\u2019m upgrading my skills as a designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moving to Portugal was a journey into the unknown.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29978,"template":"","meta":{"multilingual_post_translation":"","custompostfields_completion_year":"2017","custompostfields_meta-description":""},"alumni_country":[146],"presentation_areas":[37],"course_tax":[28,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alumni-testimonial\/27424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alumni-testimonial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/alumni-testimonial"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alumni-testimonial\/27424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29979,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alumni-testimonial\/27424\/revisions\/29979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alumni_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alumni_country?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"presentation_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presentation_areas?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"course_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipleiria.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course_tax?post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}