Hello CEE Students,

Just a reminder, CEE’s own Dr. Faisal Hossain will be presenting today at 3:30pm in More 230 or over zoom at https://washington.zoom.us/j/96665627877.

Dr. Hossain is a dynamic and engaging speaker and I highly recommend that you try to attend if it works with your schedule.

Please see the abstract below.

See you there!

Let’s Tell Our Stories
I’ve always enjoyed interacting with students as part of my day job as a faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. But what I have enjoyed even more was my night job, where I continue to moonlight as a struggling film-maker to tell stories. While that alternate path didn’t pay my bills (which is why I still show up to work for my day job), I have always found storytelling a very cathartic experience that kept my sanity. In this talk, I will make the case of why telling stories should be an important part of one’s career development as it helps both the story teller as well as the audience in many ways. I will make the case why we should talk, write and document more openly our failures rather than focus only on our accomplishments as we normally do today. Next, I will introduce the UW Student film-making contest for STEM students on campus. A small sample of student-made short films will be showcased to prove that any good story teller can become a great film-maker with little effort. All that is needed is a genuine story coming from the heart that the rest of us can learn from