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Register for EPA’s 8th Annual RainWorks Challenge

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The Campus RainWorks Challenge is a green infrastructure design competition for American colleges and universities that seeks to engage with the next generation of environmental professionals, foster a dialogue about the need for innovative stormwater management, and showcase the environmental, economic, and social benefits of green infrastructure practices. Participating teams are asked to design an innovative green infrastructure project for their campus that effectively manages stormwater pollution and provides additional benefits to the campus. EPA will award a total of $30,000 to first and second place winners in the challenge’s demonstration project and master plan categories.

We are over halfway through the registration period, but there is still plenty of time! Registration ends October 15, 2019. Entries are due December 17, 2019 and winners will be announced in Spring 2020.

Learn more and register now at www.epa.gov/campusrainworks

WTS Lunch and Learn

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What: Women in Transportation Seminar Lunch & Learn
When: Wednesday, October 23rd, 12PM-1PM
Where: Gould Hall 110

Come enjoy some pizza and learn about the Women in Transportation Seminar! WTS is a nonprofit organization aiming to connect and empower women who work in transportation. Members reign from all professional fields including engineering, urban planning, environmental, law, and many others. The Puget Sound Chapter offers great resources for students and working professionals including networking events, lectures, reading groups, and so much more. Members from the Puget Sound Chapter Board will be available to speak and answer questions regarding the following opportunities open to university students:

  • Six scholarships, including one open exclusively to UW students.
  • Professional mentorship program
  • Transportation industry events and networking opportunities

Questions? Contact the WTS Student Outreach Committe: Francesca (francesca.liburdy@transpogroup.com), Michelle (mabunaja@uw.edu), Yiran (yiranz94@uw.edu), and Taylor (hainestaylor@seattleu.edu).

Engineering Recruiting

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Powder River Development Services, LLC, an A&E design firm based out of Eagle, ID, is actively searching for civil engineering students and recent graduates to join their engineering group.

More information about Powder River Development can be found on their website, http://powderriverdev.com/.

Interested students can request more information or submit their resume to info@powderriverdev.com.

Webinar – Explore a Career in Transportation

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Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI) is hosting a webinar later this month for students interested in a career in transportation. In the webinar, you will learn about:

  • Why KAI is passionate about the transportation profession.
  • Potential career paths in transportation, and steps you can take to get started.
  • Kittelson’s internship program.

Two dates are available:

  • October 21, 2019: 4PM PST
  • October 29, 2019: 6PM PST

The webinar is free. Registration is available here.

Graduate Fellowships in Water Infrastructure (GAANN) – Marquette University

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The Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department at Marquette University has 5 Fellowships available for people interested in studying for a Ph.D. through the Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of national Need (GAANN) program. Applicants who demonstrate financial need and intend to pursue teaching and research careers in Water Infrastructure are invited to apply. Women and others from underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply. GAANN fellows receive a competitive stipend and funding to cover tuition costs for up to 5 years. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or a National, or permanent resident of the U.S. or U.S. territories. The fellows will receive training and experience in both teaching and research related to wastewater, drinking water and stormwater management technologies. Fellowship start date should be January 2020 to 2021. If interested, please contact Dr. Daniel Zitomer, daniel.zutomer@mu.edu.

Attention CEE Seniors: CESI/Transportation Capstone Updates & Info Sessions

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Hello seniors:

For the 2019-2020 academic year, the Construction Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure (CESI) group in CEE will offer four separate CESI-oriented capstone projects in Spring 2019. Details on each capstone can be found in the email sent out to undergraduates earlier this week.

The transportation group will also be offering a new updated capstone, details of which will be communicated to you as we get closer to spring quarter. The transportation capstone enrollment numbers will be determined by student interest.

The combined construction-transportation capstone, as done in the past years, will not be offered for 2019-2020.

The CESI group has scheduled two information sessions so that you can ask questions about the four capstones. At these sessions, there will be no formal presentations about the four projects, only responses to your questions.

Please hold your questions for the information sessions as your advising team will also be present.

CESI Capstone Info Sessions:

  • Tuesday, October 8 – 9am in MOR 225
  • Tuesday, October 15 – 4:30pm in MOR 225

Details for Structures/Geotech, Hydrology and Environmental Capstones will also be communicated to you as we get closer to spring quarter.

AUT19 Reminders: Academic Calendar

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Some important notices about the upcoming week:

Academic Calendar Deadlines

  • Last day to make changes to AUT19 without a $20 fee: Tuesday, October 1
  • AUT19 unrestricted drop period: October 2-8
    • Courses may be dropped without restriction during this period. No record of the dropped course(s) will be recorded on the transcript, however, a quarter withdrawal statement will appear. There is a $20 change of registration fee charged for all registration changes made on a single day during this period. A tuition forfeiture may be charged.
    • The Late Course Drop Period (Annual Drop) for AUT19 begins on Wednesday, October 10.
      • Each academic year (September through August) you may drop one course after the 14th calendar day of a quarter, but no later than the end of the Late Course Drop Period. Once this “annual drop” is used, no additional drops will be permitted after the 14th calendar day until the next Autumn quarter.
      • For specific deadlines and other important dates (Adding/Dropping, Tuition, Dates of Instruction, Holidays, etc…) please bookmark and refer to the UW Academic Calendar.

Construction Tour Opportunity

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The Beavers, a heavy civil construction group, are hosting a tour of the East Link Extension (E335) Light Rail Project in Bellevue, WA. The tour includes a bus ride to Bellevue, project briefing, site tour, lunch, and a bus ride back. The tour focuses on the $295 million project that creates 1.9 miles of the new rail alignment through downtown Bellevue including at-grade track, track within a tunnel, elevated track guideway, retained cut/fill segments, and a major cast-in-place segmental bridge over I-405. The tour will spend time on the elevated track guideway.

What: East Link Extension Light Rail Construction Project Briefing & Tour
When: Friday, October 18th, 7:30AM-2PM
Where: Meet on campus at 7:30AM for a bus ride over to Bellevue (back on campus no later than 2PM).
Food: The Beavers will supply lunch after the tour

Sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0C44ACA72DABFB6-east1

There are 30 spots total available. Please only sign up if you can commit to attending.

Volunteers Wanted for Fluid Mechanics Conference

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Several professors from UW and other local universities are organizing a fluid mechanics conference called APS DFD, to be held November 23-26 in Seattle. Detailed information on the conference can be found here: https://www.apsdfd2019.org/

Anyone interested in the areas of research covered at this conference(thermal science, structure interaction, machine learning, energy harvesting, etc. and their applications to fluid mechanics) is invited to volunteer.

Volunteering duties will include sitting through several sessions (preferably ones that interest the volunteer) during the conference with a walkie-talkie to alert IT personnel if issues arise with audiovisual equipment. In exchange, the volunteers get free registration and may attend the whole conference if they wish.

Anyone interested should email Nate Machicoane (nmachico@uw.edu) with a list of ~8 sessions they’d be interested in volunteering for (the plan is for each volunteer to do 4-5 sessions). A full list of sessions can be found here: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD19/SessionIndex2