Daily Archives: October 28, 2015

SEI Young Professional Scholarship to Structures Congress

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Interested in an opportunity to receive scholarships and valuable experience? Read on to learn more about the ASCE-SEI Young Professional Scholarship:

ASCE-SEI is giving scholarships for young professionals to attend the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress in Phoenix AZ from February 14-17, 2016.

Through the scholarship, SEI grants ten recipients financial assistance, including complimentary registration and varying degrees of travel assistance.

The application deadline is on November 2, 2015.
For more information visit the ASCE website here.

“Advanced Remote Sensing and Earth Observation” Course

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Can you answer yes to any of the following questions?

  • Interested in the theory and application of satellite remote sensing as a tool for environmental science?
  • Want to know the fundamentals of electromagnetic radiation, reflection and absorption, black body radiation, use of the Plank Function, satellite and sensor technology, map projections, integration of GIS data, and digital image analysis.
  • Curious about measuring atmospheric trace gasses, and cloud temperatures from space?
  • Want to quantitatively measure land cover change across landscapes?
  • Interested to learn ENVI image processing software?

Then the “Advanced Remote Sensing and Earth Observation” course might be just right for you! The course is offered to both upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students (no pre-requisites but physics and GIS are helpful). The information for the class is as follows:

EE 498 A / CEE 599 Q – Advanced Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Winter Quarter 2016, Mon & Wed 9-10:20, Friday lab (1:30-3:20)