Career & Internship Center – What’s New in Handshake?

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Hello Students,

The Career & Internship Center wanted to share some resources with students to promote their new features for Handshake, UW’s career services platform:

  1. Webinars hosted by our center, including “How to Maximize Handshake”, most recent recording hyperlinked. We will have another webinar coming out in winter quarter.
  2. Handshake created a detailed resource for students about the Curated Employers feature: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/9067686853015 [support.joinhandshake.com]
  3. Students also receive push notifications from Handshake about new product features such as Curated Employers and Video Chats, keeping students up-to-date with what the platform has to offer.

WSP Summer 2023 Civil/Water Resources Engineer Internship (Redmond, WA)

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Attention CEE Students,

WSP is providing a summer internship opportunity for students in our department. More information can be found down below:

Summer 2023 Civil/Water Resources Engineer Intern

Our Business

We are a global leader in environmental consulting – made stronger with the recent acquisition of Golder – with world-class expertise in environmental, social and governance (ESG), climate resiliency & sustainability (CRS), and earth sciences. Combined we have over 14,000 multidisciplinary professionals worldwide collaborating daily to protect and conserve natural landscapes, create firm foundations for communities to stand on, and champion sustainable development to combat climate change.

As part of the team, you will have access to an unparalleled network of resources and endless opportunities to collaborate on exciting projects with diverse teammates from across the globe.

This Opportunity

Nationally recognized as a Top 100 Internship Program, WSP USA hosts hundreds of interns across the United States to gain hands-on, meaningful work experience to Continue reading →

Tunista Construction, LLC Internship Opportunity – Flexible Hours, Starting Soon

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Hello,

I am reaching out on behalf of Tunista Construction, LLC about an internship opportunity for a motivated student interested in gaining hands on experience and career opportunities in the Civil Engineering or Construction Management fields.

As a former student and graduate of the CEE program at the University of Washington, I am excited to offer an internship opportunity at the Rainier Beach High School Replacement Project in Seattle. Tunista Construction broke ground in September and is partnering with the owner and general contractor for the Civil Package on this multi-phase project including all Earthwork, TESC, Utility Installations, and MEP and Structural Excavations.

The project is a short commute from the UW Seattle campus and offers flexible work hours, 20+ hours per week, through the school year based on academic needs of the student. Jobsite hours are Monday through Friday between the hours of 7 am and 4 pm. Interns will need to provide their own transportation and safety toed work boots. Continue reading →

ENGR 202 Course Flyer Winter 23

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Greetings all,

I’ve attached a flyer for our ENGR 202: University to Career course. This course dives into career principles and practices that will allow students to take their university experience into the workplace and lay a foundation for a rewarding career.

We are offering 2 sections winter quarter and plan to offer it in spring as well. The course is intended for 2nd year students, however anyone who would like to enroll is welcome.

Days, times, SLNs are on the flyer.

NEW! Winter 2023 Course: FISH 200 Freshwater Ecology & Conservation

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Attention Students,

The UW School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences has created a new course for students to register for the upcoming WIN 23 quarter. More information about the specifics of the class is down below:

FISH 200 Freshwater Ecology & Conservation

Journey through the underwater world of rivers and lakes. Get hands-on experience in wet labs and field trips. Explore the life and death of organisms in a rapidly changing planet.

FISH 200A, Lecture only, 3cr – MWF 130-220

FISH 200B, Lecture + Lab, 5cr – MWF 130-20, TH 130-420

Instructor: Julian Olden, Gordon Holtgrieve

Pre-reqs: NONE

Friday Harbor Labs Spring ’23 Applications Open!

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Hello Students,

I’m happy to announce that the Friday Harbor Labs (FHL) Spring 2023 course applications are now open! You can apply at this link. If you aren’t familiar with FHL already, we are UW’s satellite marine research station and we host field-based courses in spring, autumn, and summer. That’s right–you can spend 10 weeks on our 500 acre wooded shoreline campus getting your hands dirty while learning marine science and conducting your own research project!

Our Spring 2023 quarter features:

  • Our Spring Marine Studies program offers several courses at the 100-300 level to choose from, including courses on introductory biology, natural history of the Salish Sea, indigenous and environmental history of the Salish Sea, marine mammals of the Salish Sea, and science writing.
  • At the 400 level, you can take our Zoo-Bot program, which is 16 credits worth of courses that will teach you the hands-on fundamentals of Zoology and Botany in this region while you design and conduct your own research project. Students in this program may be eligible for Mary Gates Endowment Scholarship.

You can find more details for all of our courses on our Course Description page. Continue reading →

Physics 104 – Winter Quarter: Enhancing Understanding in Physics 121

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Dear Students,

The Physics Department is pleased to announce that Physics 104 will be offered during Winter Quarter 2023. This course is intended for students taking Physics 121, which is the first course in the introductory calculus-based physics sequence.  The focus in Physics 104 will be on helping students strengthen their understanding of, and facility with, core concepts and skills that are essential to success in university physics courses and ultimately for STEM.

An additional goal of Physics 104 is to meet the needs of students who may have been impacted by online learning in their high school math and physics courses.  The course is an effort to help ease their transition into university physics courses. Remediation is not the focus, but rather the development of skills and proficiencies that support success in Physics 121, 122, and 123 as well as other introductory STEM courses. Support will also be given to students in developing effective collaboration skills.

Physics 104 is a 2-credit, CR/NC course that will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00-6:20 PM.  Since some students will likely not self-identify for the course prior to the start of the quarter, we will reach out via email to students taking Physics 121 both before the quarter begins and a few weeks afterward, letting them know about the course.

If you have any questions, please contact Donna Messina (dmessina@uw.edu) for further information.   Continue reading →

Application Open: Mojtahedi Nexus Scholarship for Engineering/Humanities Dual Interest

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Students,

Applications for the Mojtahedi Humanities and Engineering Nexus Scholarship are being accepted now.

The Mojtahedi Humanities and Engineering Nexus Scholarship supports UW undergraduate engineering and computer science students that are also pursuing academic studies in any arts, humanities, or social sciences field in the College of Arts & Science. The award is generally a one-year award but may be renewable depending on available funds in future years.

The online application form is available here [docs.google.com], which also contains full eligibility and application information. Applications are due November 14th.

CEE 500 seminar: Dr. Xiaodong Chen, PNNL (11/10. Thur 3:30pm, Virtual)

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Students,

This week’s CEE 500 speaker is Dr. Xiaodong Chen, who earned both MS and PhD degrees from our department. Xiaodong is currently a research scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He will talk about his career pathway and current research on predicting extreme hydroclimatic events using machine learning. Note that the seminar will be virtual only.

When/where: Thursday (11/10), on Zoom: http://depts.washington.edu/watersem/

Abstract: Improved understanding of the regional hydro-climate extremes from machine learning

The western U.S. hydro-climate system features significant footprints of both large-scale circulation patterns (atmospheric rivers) and local processes (precipitation and snowpack). These relevant extreme events thus exhibit multi-scale interactions with the large-scale hydro-climate environment, posing significant challenges to their predictability apart from their high impacts on the regional social-economic welfare. Continue reading →

CEE’s Work from Campus Day! | Coffee, Tea, Snacks and more | Thursday, November 10th, 2022

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Dear CEE,

We will be holding our very first “Work from Campus” event this Thursday! We know the pandemic  has changed life in many ways and it’s been difficult to form connections in this hybrid world. This event is meant to help CEE members  converge in-person for one day of low stakes drop-by mingling and encourage casual interactions for community-building.

Members of the Graduate Student Advisory Board will be hosting (with the department kindly footing the bill :D) and ALL members of our community are encouraged to attend. Stop by More 110 between 9AM–12:30PM to pick up some coffee, tea, fresh fruit, granola bars and croissants while they last. Feel free to hang around to chat and snack or take your goodies back to your study/work area.

To try and minimize single-use waste, please bring your own thermos/cup for beverages and a container for your snacks. 

Who: you

What: sign in at the door for coffee/tea, fresh fruit, snacks and croissants

Where: More 110

When: 9am–12:30pm, Thursday, November 10th