ASME Mechanical Engineering Career Fair 2016

Come to the 2016 ASME Mechanical Engineering Career Fair this Tuesday, March 1st ! They will be hosting great companies such as Paccar, Alaska Airlines, Port of Seattle and more! Attached, you can find the company descriptions for this year and instructions for uploading your resume onto HuskyJobs. It is also encouraged that you bring an extra resume to leave at the front door of the event as they will be scanned to send out after the event.

  • When: March 1st, 2016
  • Time: 1pm – 4pm
  • Where: HUB Lyceum
  • For a list of companies attending the event, click here.

Job Position with CRH Engineering

CHR Engineering, PLLC is a small civil engineering consulting firm located in Skagit County, WA currently seeking a highly motivated entry level Civil Engineer to work from their home office in Sedro-Woolley:

Responsibilities: Engineering design and contract administration of municipal improvement projects such as; roads, sidewalks, water systems, sanitary sewer system, storm sewer systems, and building structures. Day to day activities will include ensuring that designs are completed to codes and standards set forth by the governing authority and in accordance with industry standards, technical report writing, reviewing technical documents, acting as an on-site representative, and monitoring construction activities.

Minimum requirements:

  • Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET accredited college/university
  • Familiarity and experience with AutoCAD CIV3D 2010 or newer, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-starter who is resourceful, creative, and can work independently as well as with team members
  • Problem solving abilities with a positive attitude
  • CHR Engineering offers a competitive pay and benefit package. Prior military, engineering, or construction experience is highly desired.

Interested individuals should send a PDF letter of interest and resume to : admin@crheng.com by March 13 for initial consideration. Start of work is flexible but is anticipate in June of 2016. Successful candidates will be contacted by March 18 to schedule a follow-up in person and/or phone interview.

 

Summer Field Technician Position

 Explore Fairbanks images on FlickrStarting in May/June 2016, the Hydro-Biogeochemistry Group at the University of Washington in Seattle has an opening for a summer field technician!

The technician will be working at a field site located in Fairbanks, AK on a project investigating methane production and methane oxidation in a thermokarst bog. The site is in the Bonanza Creek LTER research forest and is part of the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX).

The technician will live in Fairbanks over the summer, and will travel back and forth to the site by car. S/he will assist the field efforts of a postdoctoral researcher working at the site, will be responsible for conducting methane flux measurements and analyzing collected samples, and will be expected to backpack heavy loads of equipment into the site (~1 mile distance).

If you are interested, please contact Rebecca Neumann (rbneum@uw.edu) with a cover letter, CV or resume, and the names of three individuals able to provide a letter of recommendation.

Job Opening with California EPA Air Resources Board

Read on to learn about this upcoming job opportunity. Keep checking back on the site for future postings as multiple job openings will be available in the coming weeks:

  • Job Title: Air Resources Board
  • Work Location: Sacramento County, CA
  • Job Type: Permanent/Full-time
  • To Apply: Complete Application Packages (Applications and any applicable or required documents) must be submitted electronically through your CalCareer account at www.jobs.ca.gov.
  • Questions? Visit the Department Website or contact Lisa Nguyen, Human Resources Contact at 916-445-5630 or the EEO Contact Lori Lopez at 916-323-7053

Job Description:The Off-Road Diesel Analysis Section is looking for an enthusiastic Air Resources Engineer (ARE) to join a team that creates and maintains mobile source inventory models and provides technical expertise on ARB’s regulated industries. The job is dynamic and requires a self-motivated candidate with the ability to adapt to a wide range of roles, including (1) evaluating industry sectors and reviewing data, (2) leading studies, contracts and workgroups composed of ndustry members and regulatory divisions, (3) programming and model development, and (4) working closely with multiple groups to develop policy and regulatory concepts. The mobile source inventories provide the scientific foundation for much of ARB’s work including fleet regulations, the State Implementation Plan (SIP), the Freight Plan, and the Scoping Plan. Most of the responsibilities require someone who is comfortable being a project lead and guiding a team through a lengthy technical process (or capable of learning how to do so). Continue reading

STAR Career Day

Read on to learn about this great upcoming event! Several engineering departments at UW use STAR-CCM+ for their fluid dynamics simulations:

Oil and Gas Marine CFD simulationAre you still undecided on an engineering job after graduation? Could you use a resume review, interview tips, and guidance from hiring managers in your industry? If so, this FREE career workshop is for you. Executives from PACCAR, Boeing, Daimler, Pacific Northwest National Labs, and CD-adapco will discuss what they look for in new graduate hires. Get real-world advice on the skill sets, training, interview scenarios, and resume content hiring managers expect for positions involving advanced engineering simulations.

  • Resume critique & advice
  • Mock interviews
  • Industry-specific interview questions
  • Mentoring sessions
  • Industry Q & A
  • Career Networking

By attending this student career event, you will gain insight in the hiring process of industry leaders in Aerospace, Ground Transportation, Enterprise Software, and National Laboratories. Get a competitive advantage by hearing a “Day in the Life” perspective from speakers about engineering roles in their company. This event is free but space is limited. Register today!

*Lunch will be provided

Design/Build in Croatia Info Session

Read on to learn about this upcoming info session for Croatia Design/Build, Fall quarter 2016:

Upcoming Info Session:

Thursday, March 15th, 2016  at 12:00 PM in Gould Hall Room 132

Design|Build Fall 2016: Community Therapeutic Garden

Program Description: This program will be in collaboration with students and faculty from the University of Rijeka, Depts of Physical Therapy, Fine Art, Engineering and Pedology. We will be living and working in Rijeka, Croatia in the Karvner region on the Adriatic sea. We will be creating a sensory therapeutic garden for use by those who are blind or with compromised vision, disabled adults, kindergartners and high school students on the grounds of a former monastery and a Catholic church. We will also create a master plan for Dom Turnic, a residential facility for disabled adults. Students will all work together to explore and implement principles of therapeutic environmental design, cultural place attachment, traditional building techniques of Croatia, and ecological design to create this sensory garden and master plan.

Eligibility: Undergraduate, graduate, and non-matriculated students in landscape architecture, architecture, fine arts, and engineering are preferred. Other fields may also apply.

Application Due: March 15th, 2016

Questions? Contact Prof. Winterbottom (nina@uw.edu) or visit the Study Abroad Website and search for Landscape Architecture Croatia: Design/Build Rijeka, Croatia

Important Advising Note for CEE Juniors

CEE Juniors:

I hope that your spring quarter registration is going well. Your spring quarter registration should be pretty simple if you are “on track.” You should have the remaining two 300-level CEE courses and CEE 456 (if you are interested in structures) or a graduation requirement or elective. Please run your degree audit and review your progress.

You need not worry too much about senior year planning at this point. You will do this with faculty mentors in the month of April. We will provide you with more information about this after all students have registered for spring quarter. In the meantime, here is an overview:

Senior-Year Planning Session with Faculty Mentors — In April

  • During the month of April, faculty from the various areas (Transportation, Structural, Construction, etc.) will schedule group sessions to meet with CEE majors to help you learn about their field and to help you select appropriate upper-division coursework and prepare for post-graduation. We will advertise these session widely, and post the meeting time on the CEE Advising Calendar.
  • After you attend the group session of your choice, you can follow up with individual faculty members of our choice to discuss your specific interests and goals, and to talk about appropriate coursework and preparation for post-graduation for you.
  • It is extremely important for rising seniors to attend sessions to meet faculty, to hear about preparation for senior year from faculty (not staff advisers), and to get to know faculty members–and to have them get to know you– so when you return in the fall of your senior year, you have people you can approach for reference letters and/or to be your mentors and supporters.
  • Enter your intended courses on MyPlan, print out a copy, and have a faculty member sign anywhere on the sheet (Note: Please be sure to print the print-friendly version of your 4-year plan which will include your name and UW ID number, not a screen shot of the MyPlan page, which omits student name and ID number).
  • Turn the signed copy into Brian or Mariko’s mailbox in More Hall 201 by the end of spring quarter. This will be considered your “graduation plan”. Your graduation plan can be modified, but it is important to plan your senior year coursework in advance, accounting for core courses and university requirements.

“Preparing for Graduate School” Session (April 8, 2:30-4pm, Room TBA) Continue reading

HCDE 231 Degree Requirement- Update

Some of you may have heard that the HCDE 231 (Technical Writing) course was going to be discontinued in the future, and the issue of the graduation requirement for Technical Writing was in question due to access to this class. However, recently the College of Engineering has approved HCDE 231 to become a new course entitled “Intro to Communication in HCDE” in the future (perhaps in a year or so), and a new course ENGR 231 will be established as the new “Technical Writing” class.

So the Technical Writing course requirement will stand. Please plan to include it as part of the BSCE graduation requirement.

Upcoming Lecture with Dr. Basile Chaix

Read on to learn about this great upcoming lecture with social epidemiologist Dr. Basile Chaix: 

People-Place Interactions, Mobility Patterns, and Metabolic Health: A European Perspective:

The Nemesis team (Neighborhood Environments and Mobility: Effects on Social health InequalitieS, Inserm and University Pierre and Marie Curie) investigates the interrelationships between neighborhood environments, mobility behavior, and health status, as they relate to metabolic and cardiovascular health. Until recently, the literature on neighborhood environments and health has focused on residential environments, which result in static and partial assessments of environmental exposures that may have both overestimated residential effects and underestimated environmental effects as a whole. In this talk, Professor Chaix will describe how the team’s aim is incorporating mobility, both as a vector of exposure to daily life environments and as a source of physical activity and transport-related exposures, into neighborhood and health studies. Integrating methodologies from epidemiology and public health, geography, and transport sciences, the challenges they face are accurately measuring transport mode use and trips by combining GPS receiver data and mobility surveys; assessing the momentary exposure to environmental conditions prevailing where behavioral decisions are made; processing and combining data from various location, environmental, behavioral, and health sensors; neutralizing biases (e.g., related to selective daily mobility) that plague the validity of causal inference from our data; and building simulation tools rooted in their sensor data that permit them to evaluate the potential impact of various interventions or behaviors on population health.

About Dr. Chaix: Dr. Chaix is one of the founders of the NEMESIS TEAM. Among other projects, Dr. Chaix directs MOBILISENSE, a project funded by the European Research Council. This project includes a cohort of 1000 participants monitored with sensors and smartphones at baseline and after two years, in order to explore the short-term and longer-term effects of air pollution and noise related to the personal transport behavior of people on cardiovascular and respiratory health.

 

Questions for Planning Future Classes: Helpful Resources

We have gotten a number of emails with requests for help planning future quarter classes, especially with concerning area of interests. Below are some commonly asked questions followed by helpful resources that will assist you. These are the resources you can use now to start looking at the classes you’re interested in taking next year. You can put the classes you are interested in taking in your MyPlan under the appropriate quarter as a reminder and for easy access and reference.

  1. “What do you recommend me to take if I’m interested in…(construction, structures, etc.)”
    • Check out the BSCE Advising Handbook in the “Senior Year Planning” sections (pages 12-18). Faculty-recommended courses are listed by area. Although this is a general guideline, it will help you to see what’s generally recommended. Remember that undergraduates can take courses in “areas of interest(s)” –but they do not specialize their BSCE degree in a specific area (that’s for grad school).
  2. “How do I know when certain classes are offered so I can plan for next year?”
  3. “What times/days will the course I want be offered in 2016/2017?”
    • We post that information (when it becomes available) on the quarterly “Preliminary Time Schedule”, which is listed on the Schedule Planning Resources page by quarter/year. We try to have working drafts of our preliminary time schedule for future quarters several months in advance of the start of the quarter. Autumn 2016 will appear online soon.
  4. “How do I submit an add code or waitlist request?”