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Upcoming Environmental Career Events

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Hi All,

I just found out about a few environmental career events that may be of interest.

I imagine you are in the loop via handshake but if not, here you go!

  • Ocean Tech Career Day, January 22, 12pm-3pm, Ocean Sciences Lobby – connect with Ocean Tech employers and professionals
  • 44th Annual Diversity Career Fair, January 22, 3pm-6pm, HUB Ballrooms – connect you with a broad range of employers from technology, healthcare, construction management, consulting, social services, and more
  • Environmental Career Fair, February 13, 12pm-3pm, HUB North Ballroom – connect with dozens of environmental employers at our annual career fair

See the College of the Environment Career Services Calendar for more events/details.

Internship and Job Opportunities

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Hello,

I’m a former 2020 grad of the civil engineering program at UW. I’d like to pass along internship and new graduate job opportunities my company is offering in their Federal Way, and Vancouver Washington locations. You can find the link to our career page below.  All are welcome to apply regardless of concentration and I’d encourage anyone to apply for the internship regardless of class standing.

Mackay Sposito is primarily involved in land development, public works, and energy projects. Examples of our work are the Tehaleh master planned community in Bonney Lake, and the Main Street Promise in Vancouver. You can expect to be trained on the use of Civil3D for designing and drafting plans, stormwater modeling, report writing, and collaborating with other engineering firms.  

https://www.mackaysposito.com/careers

2025 Summer Paid Internship Opportunity: Work with a NOAA Scientist and Learn to Integrate Mathematics and Fisheries Science

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Hello Students,

Summer Internship Opportunity: Work with a NOAA Scientist and Learn to Integrate Mathematics and Fisheries Science

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) and the University of Washington request applications for students in the Mathematical Sciences for a summer internship at the NWFSC. Interns will spend summer (~16 June – 15 September) working on a research project that integrates mathematics with the science that informs fishery managers. A stipend of $6,300 will be provided from the Usha and S. Rao Varanasi SAFS Faculty Endowment for Student Support, the NWFSC, and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS). The successful applicant will also be provided with office space at the NWFSC or SAFS and a NWFSC mentor.

Although any projects related to sustainable management of west coast fish resources would be considered, the following projects are already available and mentors identified, which each of these projects looking for two or more interns this year:

  1. Combining survey data to quantify spatiotemporal variation in fish populations across the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

Mentors: Eric Ward (NWFSC), Kelli Johnson (NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology), Kiva Oken (NWFSC), Chantel Wetzel (NWFSC), Sean Anderson (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Lewis Barnett (Alaska Fisheries Science Center).

  1. Development of machine- and deep-learning models for processing remote-sensing data.

Mentor: Eli Holmes (NWFSC).

For more information on these projects contact the primary NWFSC mentors (Eric Ward: eric.ward@noaa.gov; Eli Holmes: eli.holmes@noaa.gov) Continue reading →

2025 NSF NHERI summer internship: Research Experiences for Undergraduates

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Dear Students,

Each summer, NSF NHERI research and experimental sites fund 30 undergraduate students from various undergraduate degrees (engineering, architecture, sciences, computer science, social science, etc.) to participate in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, the NHERI REU. 

We encourage you to apply for the NHERI REU. The deadline for application is Feb. 16, 2025.

The NSF NHERI research experiences focus on mitigating natural hazards specific to earthquakes, wind storms, tsunamis, coastal engineering, data management and analysis, field reconnaissance, modeling and simulation, and social science research. 
 
Students work with faculty and graduate student mentors to conduct research during a 10-week, paid, NSF-funded summer experience at one of NSF NHERI’s research or experimental facilities: 

Find more information and apply at the NHERI REU website:

NHERI REU program Continue reading →

Jacobs Engineering — 2025 Water Summer Internship Position

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Students,

Internship opportunity available at Jacobs Engineering.

Details:

  • Location: Bellevue, WA
  • Focus: Water engineering for public agencies – focus is on drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, conveyance, and storage.
  • Requirements: Enrolled in school and a Rising Senior or Masters Student
  • Details: Interns will have opportunities to work with our engineers and project managers on a variety of work assignments to provide assistance with studies and design related to water engineering. Specific opportunities will vary depending on passions and areas of interest. Our water team in Bellevue has 100 people spanning all aspects of water engineering.

https://careers.jacobs.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Water-Wastewater-Intern-Summer-2025/21250

PCC UCo Internship Search Party Event

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Students,

Looking for internships? The PCC Undergraduate Cohort (UCo) will be hosting an internship search party on Thursday, November 21st at 6pm in Savery 132. The event will kick off with summer internship information, resources for finding internships, and application tips. The session will then turn into a search party to give students dedicated time to find and bookmark internships they are interested in. Our goal is to help summer internships feel more approachable and get a head start on applying. 

This event is the first of our Undergraduate Involvement series where we will help undergraduates on preparing for summer internships, provide application workshops, and provide on campus resources and opportunities in climate science with this event focusing on getting ahead of the applications cycle.

Snacks and an excel sheet organizer will be provided!

Graham Construction and Engineering information session: Friday, November 15th, 2024 @3:30

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Hi all,

How are you doing after the two career fairs earlier this quarter? Well, if you have an interest in building things, here’s your opportunity. Graham is coming to More Hall to talk about their company and their open positions for interns and full-time hires. Please come. The pizza is good, the jobs are real, and time is convenient. It’s like a happy hour with jobs and internships!

What: Graham Construction and Engineering information session

When: Friday, 11/15/24 from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Where: More Hall, Room 221

Food: Pizza provided

Why go: they have jobs and internships…and a great pizza lead in to the evening game vs. UCLA

Graham consistently hires our students as interns and full-time hires. They work on interesting local projects including the SR 520 Montlake project (they are just finishing that one up), the I-405/NE 85th interchange in Kirikland, as well as local high schools, business centers and residential complexes.

HDR – Job Opportunity for Environmental Inspector Intern

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Hi students!

Please see the following message from HDR Inc. 

HDR has an Environmental Inspector Intern position available over next summer in Seattle. Please visit the link to get more information about the position. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Michael May, Construction Environmental Compliance Lead (Michael.May@hdrinc.com). 

HDR is also hosting a Career Expo on Wednesday November 13th, 2024 in their Seattle Office. This is similar to a reverse career fair or open house where we welcome candidates into our office to hear from our team and meet with hiring managers for opportunities at HDR. We have about 20 opportunities available for next summer across multiple disciplines!

Civil Engineering Summer Internship Opportunity – KPFF Civil (Seattle)

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Calling all Civil Engineering Juniors interested in a summer internship in civil site design and consulting!

KPFF’s Civil Team is looking for motivated and engaged civil engineering students between their Junior and Senior year for a summer internship with our Seattle Civil Team. You will work within a fun, dynamic, and diverse team and will have the opportunity to engage on projects from the beginning planning stages through construction documents, and during construction. Project types vary from site development to utility infrastructure to regional stormwater facilities in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

When interning with us, you will go beyond getting a glimpse into your future career as a civil engineer.  We will integrate you into our teams and we are excited to share our professional experience with you as we work on projects together.  You will help solve real design problems and help complete active project work. Job responsibilities will vary depending on team, project, and each individual intern’s interests.

Please see the attached PDF (or QR code provided below) for a summary of this role’s opportunities and responsibilities, required qualifications and skills, and some additional information on benefits, compensation, and KPFF.

Apply HERE:

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 →