Christin Hudak does not apply the mind intimidating.

Christin Hudak does not apply the mind intimidating. But the 5-1, 110-pound self-described "pipsqueak" can more than restrain her own in a shouting match with a macho drywall contractor. She has to be able to. It's her do job-work

Hudak is a civil engineering learner one of two to win a $1000 scholarship from the Virginia / Washington, DC / Maryland chapter of the American Public Works Association. (Ironically, the other recipient was also a woman.)

She was working as the draw engineer on construction of a $12 million institute building when she had the run-in with the contractor. "I had made a perforate list on the drywall job" she says. "There were a destiny of patches that had not been done strictly and needed to be fixed. He began screaming at me because he didn't want to fix anything until he had the architect's pierce list. He told ...