Daily Archives: February 23, 2024

Bamboo Building, Regenerative Agriculture & Ecosystem Restoration Program — Ecuador

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Hi all,

Are you interested in traveling to Ecuador with a passionate group of students to learn about building with bamboo, regenerative farming practices, and ecosystem restoration? Join the Regenerative Field Institute for the Bamboo Building, Regenerative Agriculture & Ecosystem Restoration program from June 10-19th, 2024 in Manabí, Ecuador. The program will offer 8 days of hands-on experience in areas of reforestation, agroforestry and agroecology, regenerative agriculture, wildlife conservation, environmental and sustainable design and building with bamboo.

Enrollment is open and will stay open until the program is full (22 students)!

Feel free to fill out the interest form or contact Molly Thompson (mthomp7@uw.edu) for any questions or further information to sign up!

Visit the Regeneration Field Institute website to learn more about our programs and work.

Unique Data Science Classes of methods with HPC and Cloud

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Good afternoon, engineering advisers,

Please help us to share the information and flyer of “MSE 479/544: Big Data and Materials Informatics” with your undergrad and grad students. This unique class provides knowledge and training in applications of high-performance computing and cloud computing resources, class is developed by the MSE department, the Chemistry department in collaboration with eScience and UW-IT, and is sponsored by Microsoft Azure Cloud.

We welcome all students who meet the prerequisites or have completed equivalent classes.  

Please feel free to contact Professor Luna Huang (huangyue@uw.edu) and Professor Ting Cao (tingcao@uw.edu) for more information.

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WAPA Scholarships available

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All,

I share with you a great scholarship program available to CEE students that is accepting applications right now.  This scholarship program is:

UW Washington Asphalt Pavement Association Scholarships

The Washington Asphalt Pavement Association (WAPA), the professional trade organization for asphalt pavement contractors in Washington State, will be awarding at least 15 scholarships of at least $1,000 each for students in our department. This program, established in 2002 has awarded 770 scholarships totaling over $1,000,000 to students in the State of Washington just like you. So, they have been supporting folks like you for quite some time. Eligibility criteria are pretty broad and stated in the application itself.

Apply Here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7731491/2024-WAPA-Scholarships

Applications Due: Friday, April 5th, 2024

Helpful information

  • All these scholarships go to students in our department only, so the chances of getting one are good
  • The scholarships are awarded as checks directly to you
  • The scholarship requires a 1-page personal statement and a current resume
  • Direct any questions to Steve Muench and Julian Yamaura

Scholarships available for students interested in construction

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All,

I share with you two scholarship programs available to CEE students who are seriously considering working in the heavy civil construction industry. Heavy civil construction means building infrastructure other than buildings. Many heavy civil companies regularly hire from our department. This is a good starter list to get an idea of who they are and what they do. These scholarship programs are:

Beavers Charitable Trust National Scholarship (awarding 20 scholarships of $10,000 each nationally)

The Beavers Charitable Trust, the heavy civil construction organization that sponsors Steve Muench’s and Julian Yamaura’s professorships, wants to award twenty $10,000 scholarships to students across their university network (the work with about 20 universities). This organization is intent on helping students who intend on working in their industry. You will see their eligibility requirements reflect this.

Women in Heavy Civil National Scholarship (awarding 3 scholarships of $10,000 each nationally)

Same organization, same general motivation, but this one is specifically for women (if you are a woman, you SHOULD apply for both scholarships, the work is nearly identical). The Beavers will award three scholarships of $10,000.

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