Vanessa Niño-Tapia, civil engineer for the Sacramento District, rides aboard the Sounder, a Corps’ dredging boat, on the Sacramento River near Rio Vista, California, in September 2013 to learn how the topography of the bottom of the channel is mapped and to gain experience on how a dredge operates. Participants in the Recent Graduates Program are given professional career development assignments by rotating through different areas of work within the agency and receive formal training at some of the Corps’ most respected educational centers. (U.S. Army photo / Released)