Daily Archives: October 24, 2024

REMINDER: Construction Career Fair on Tuesday, 10/29

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Hi all,

I want to remind everyone that the Construction Career Fair (hosted by Construction Management) is coming up next week. Please go!

What: 2024 CM Career EXPO (CEE students are ALWAYS welcome to go and we do…in large numbers)

When: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Where: HUB Ballroom (same place as CEE career fair)

Why go: there are LOTS of jobs and internships available here and they LOVE folks from our department

If you are at all interested in Construction as either a career or even just for an internship you MUST go to this career fair. There will be 103 companies there. That’s right, 103! Every construction company that does business here and some that do not will be at this career fair looking for new hires and/or internships. In years where our students commit to going to this career fair, they see as many, if not more, CEE students than CM students there. Let’s make that happen this year. If you went to the CEE career fair, go to this one too.

PERSPECTIVE

Let me offer some internship/job perspective: The construction sector (contractors, consultants that do construction management/inspection, and owners that hire folks to manage construction efforts) employs our graduates more than any other. By far. The following table shows the fraction of internships and jobs supplied by the construction industry to our students based on our end-of-year surveys. Even if you like structures right now, a construction internship with a heavy civil firm would be super-beneficial to you. Continue reading →

2025 Summer Internship Engineering Opportunities at Idaho Power (Boise, ID)

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Hello University of Washington CEE Students,

My name is Kolton Smith, and I am a Transmission Design Engineer at Idaho Power. I wanted to reach out to let you know about the summer 2025 internship opportunities we have available for undergraduate Engineering students at Idaho Power. Our internship program is designed to provide students with hands-on experience, mentorship from industry professionals, and the opportunity to work on real-world projects that align with their academic and career goals.

I have attached our brochure that contains descriptions and details of all the internship engineering positions next summer. Applications can be submitted through our career page: www.idahopower.com/careers

The application deadline is this Friday, 10/25/24.

If you have any questions, please contact (208) 388-2965 or email jobs@idahopower.com

CONSTRUCTION SCHOLARSHIPS: Beavers and Clark Construction Group Scholarships Announcement – Applications Due November 5th

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Hi all,

Hope the first few weeks of class are going well for you! I am writing to let everyone know that there is a great scholarship opportunity for students interested in and involved with construction engineering. There are scholarships from the Beavers Charitable Trust and the Clark Construction Group available for award. The awards will be TWO $5,000 cash scholarships from the Beavers and TWO $2,500 cash scholarships from Clark. Awards will be given in November. Here are the application particulars:

REQUIREMENTS

  • The applicant must have completed an internship (or have an ongoing one) with a construction company. This is the big requirement – it does limit the applicant pool quite a bit. I am aware of a number of students who meet this requirement (e.g., Clark, Flatiron, Granite, Stacy and Witbeck, Kiewit, Skanska, Walsh, Sellen, Mortenson, and more). If you have had a construction company internship, we will find you and get you to enter…so do it voluntarily first. 😉
  • The applicant must be in good academic standing. This means not on academic probation and no history of academic misconduct.
  • The applicant must fill out an application (shocking) here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8067529/2024-Beavers-Charitable-Trust-and-Clark-Construction-Group-Scholarships. This application involves you writing 1 page on your intern experience. So, it takes a bit of time to complete.

DUE DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 11:59 P.M.

APPLY HERE: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8067529/2024-Beavers-Charitable-Trust-and-Clark-Construction-Group-Scholarships

QUESTIONS: ASK ME (STMUENCH@UW.EDU, OR VISIT ME IN MORE 133D) Continue reading →

CEE Env/Water Seminar: Thur Oct 24/3:30 (More 220): Dr. Adi Radian: Soil’s Hidden Marvels for Environmental Sustainability

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Dear CEE Community, 

Please join us for the Environment and Water Program seminar this Thursday October 24 in More Hall 220 at 3:30 pm to hear from Dr. Adi Radian, who is currently on sabbatical, visiting our department. Dr. Radian will talk about her work on developing sustainable environmental and agricultural solutions using clay minerals and nano particles. 

You can find the fall program here: https://depts.washington.edu/watersem/

Soil’s Hidden Marvels: Harnessing Clay Minerals and Iron-Oxide Nano-Particles for Sustainable Environmental and Agricultural Solutions

Adi Radian

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel

E-mail contact: aradian@technion.ac.il

In the soil clay fraction, there are minerals and oxides that have many interesting properties, such as high surface area, high adsorptivity, and available redox reactive sites. Harnessing these properties for environmental applications can be highly beneficial, as these materials are abundant, non-toxic, and low cost – and can therefore serve as catalysts, sorbents, and flocculants in engineered systems. Herein, the application of montmorillonite clay decorated with amorphous iron-oxides (FeOx-MMT) will be shown in several different engineered environmental systems. The first, is the use of the composite as a catalyst in heterogeneous Fenton reactions to remove and degrade persistent organic pollutants (such as PAHs, polyphenols and PFAS). Then the use of the composite as an adsorbent for phosphate recovery and reuse will be shown. Lastly, the composite’s ability to flocculate, sediment and damage cyanobacteria as a method to mitigate large algae blooms will be presented.  Overall, the aim is to present the versatility of these types of materials in environmental applications. Continue reading →