Capt. Matthew Purdy ’15 gaining engineering experience at Canandaigua VA Medical Center project

By Alumni Office

Capt. Matthew Purdy (right), who is currently serving as project engineer on the Canandaigua VA Medical Center project, participates in a site tour of the project Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Ryan Campbell, USACE Buffalo Public Affairs)

Capt. Matthew Purdy (far right in photo) has been interested in engineering and how things work since he was a preschooler. That lifelong interest has led him to his current role as a project engineer on the Canandaigua VA Medical Center project in upstate New York.

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