Category Archives: Courses

CEE 500 EWP seminar, 9/29 3:30 PM @ BAG 154 (FREE COFFEE AND COOKIES)

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Dear Undergrad Students,

Our own alumna, Dr. Oriana Chegwidden from CarbonPlan (https://carbonplan.org [carbonplan.org]), will kick off the CEE 500 Environment and Water Program seminar.

Why you should come: Oriana will share her career story and talk about their exciting work on data and science for climate action. She will also tell you where to eat the world’s finest pizza. We will have coffee and cookies waiting to greet you at the door.

Please feel free to share this announcement to spread the message on this wonderful seminar.

Where: BAG 154 (Bagley Hall, SW of Drumheller Fountain)

When: Thursday (9/29), 3:30.

Autumn schedule with Zoom link (you may need to clear your computer’s cache):

http://depts.washington.edu/watersem/  Continue reading →

NEW 5 Credit VLPA Course Available – “Creativity as Research”

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Attention UW Students,

A new VLPA course is now available for students to register. See attached flyer for more information. If you are interested and have any questions, please feel free to email Jennifer Salk (jsalk@uw.edu)

Jennifer –

I co-teach a course entitled “Creativity as Research” (5CR VLPA) with priority given to first and second year students, but also open to juniors and seniors. We have had Continue reading →

Undergraduate TA or Graduate Grader need for CEE 337: Construction Materials

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Dear CEE Students,

Professor Laura Lowes is seeking a 20-hr per week undergraduate teaching assistant or graduate student grader for the junior-level CEE 337 Construction Materials class this fall (9/26 – 12/16). The course provides an introduction to the behavior of common civil engineering materials including concrete, asphalt, steel, aluminum and wood via lectures and laboratory sections in which students mix concrete, cast concrete cylinders and beams, and conduct common material tests of concrete, steel, aluminum and wood samples to determine material properties used in design and construction. A graduate student grader for this class will be required to grade various student productions (e.g., homework assignments, lab reports and quizzes) as well as provide additional support for the class as needed (e.g., creating online quizzes). An undergraduate teaching assistant for this class will be required to support the activities listed above as well as support the CEE materials lab manager and CEE 337 graduate teaching assistant in teaching the material lab sections on Thursdays of each week. While the scope of activities is larger for the undergraduate teaching assistant, no more than 20 hrs per week of work will be required. The hourly rate for these positions has been established by the UW at  $17.79/hr for undergraduate students and $21.49/hr for graduate students. Continue reading →

TODAY (July 1st @ 12pm): Friday Harbor Labs Autumn 2022 General Information Session

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We are hosting a general information session for anyone interested in studying at Friday Harbor Labs for the coming Autumn quarter. The session will take place  Friday, July 1st from 12pm-1pm PST. We are offering two Research Apprenticeships and a 3-course field research program. All courses are at the 400 level and invite you to get your hands dirty designing your own research project!

I can answer any questions you might have regarding living and working at FHL, and our Biodiversity and Monitoring of Estuarine Ecosystems instructors, Wendel Raymond and Bob Oxborrow, have offered to discuss their course and similar field research courses. Instructors from other courses may attend as well. If you have reasons you feel like you can’t take a course up here, we will discuss financial aid options, accessibility needs, and similar topics. If you’re enthusiastic about marine sciences, we want you out here!

Fill out this google form to receive the zoom link. You can also write to me and/or the instructors (CC’d) if you have specific questions. Please distribute this email to anyone you think may be interested. Continue reading →

SEFS 508: Plant Modeling Ad

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Hi there,

Please find a flyer for SEFS 508: Plant Modeling, a grad course occurring AU 22 that is also open to undergraduates and might be relevant to some of your students.

Announcement Blurb:

In this course, we use our knowledge about the physiology and ecology of plants to build and apply process-based plant ecophysiology models. Through modeling, we address questions like “how will crops respond to climate extremes?” and “When will the cherry trees on UW campus bloom?” The primary focus is on explanatory models but other approaches including statistical and machine learning models are discussed. Basic understanding and curiosity in plant ecophysiology and interest in scientific computing are recommended to take and enjoy this course. We will do some coding in Julia language using Cropbox package as the modeling framework (https://github.com/cropbox) but fluency in programming is not required. See course materials at: https://github.com/uwkimlab/plant_modeling

Fridays, 10:30am-1:20pm (AU 22)

Explore with AIS Summer Course

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Hello Students,

If you still need I&S or DIV (or language) credit, we’ve got some great Summer courses lined up, both online and in person experiential courses. AIS 103 is especially environmentally related. Full details on the flyers, basic class info below.

AIS 103 – The Indigenous Pacific Northwest

Summer A term: Charlotte Coté T/W/Th 12:00-2:50pm — 5 cr. I&S and DIV.

This course introduces students to the Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples and to the richly complex ecosystem that has shaped their diverse and distinct marine-based cultures extending from Southeast Alaska down along the coastlines of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. As a special part of the course offered in the Summer, there will be multiple hands-on learning experiences including plant walks around the UW campus, visiting the Intellectual House, possibly visiting the Seattle Art Museum or a day of the Northwest Canoe Journeys, as well as a traditional cedar weaving activity.

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Geotech Planning for Undergraduates: Grad Courses and Advising

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Hi CEE Majors,

We wanted to provide you with some guidance for AY 22-23 if you are interested in Geotechnical Engineering.

There is one undergraduate level course, CEE436 Foundation Design, that you likely are aware of but you are also able to take graduate level courses with instructor’s permission.

We also recommend that you schedule an apt with an adviser if you are planning to take graduate level courses so we can discuss how they work with your undergraduate degree.

We have also included the slides from the Geotech Mentoring Session a few weeks ago.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us or to the Geotechnical Faculty directly.

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CEE 452 change of schedule in AUT22

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Hello CEE Majors,

We wanted to let you know that CEE452 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures will tentatively change the class schedule to MW 830-1020 in Autumn 2022.

CEE 452: Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Old Time: MW 130-220, F 1030-1220

New Proposed Time: MW 830-1020am