Greetings College of Engineering Students,

Engineering Discovery Days is just around the corner coming up on May 2 & 3! Thousands of middle school students from across Washington state are visiting campus for Discovery Days to learn from UW Engineering students and faculty about the wonder of science and engineering!

It takes a multitude of volunteers to make this large-scale event a success! We are reaching out to you to encourage you to register for the event as a volunteer. Some examples of volunteer roles include:

• greeters
• crossing guards
• info desk support
• set-up/clean up staff

Note many of your peers might be participating in Discovery Days as an exhibitor, this registration form is for volunteering at the event.

All volunteers will receive an event t-shirt and pizza lunch! If you would like to help with this exciting event, please select one or two times that you are available from the form below. We will get back to you soon with information on your role based on your availability.

Sign up to volunteer at https://forms.gle/rsgLPAWegCKSSncD8. Continue reading →

Hi CEE community!

Join us next Tuesday, April 23rd from 11:00 – 1:30 in celebrating Earth Day at the Ethnic Cultural Center! The CEE department will have a table at the 2024 UW Earth Day Fair where CEE students will have the opportunity to share with the public and the UW community the research and other activities our department engages in to find ways to help the planet. Plus, it’s a great time to learn something from other departments and on-campus groups.

If you are interested in participating, please add your name to the signup sheet: 

https://bit.ly/CEE24EarthDay

At least two volunteers per time slot are needed, but if both slots are taken when you are available, feel free to stop by anyway! If you are interested in assisting with preparations for the fair, but cannot actually attend, add your name and email below the time slots so I can reach out to you.

This is a great opportunity to show off the hard work students, researchers, and professors are doing in the environmental field. No prior knowledge of ongoing research efforts is necessary, but if you have personal experience to share, we’d love if you signed up! Civil or Environmental majors of all class levels are encouraged to get involved.

Hello everyone,

My name is Shaheer and I am a current UW final year undergrad student who is one of the cofounders of Job Hunt Simplified, a brand new project that aims to create free entry level resumes, cover letters, and apply for jobs on behalf of individuals who are experiencing homelessness and/or difficult situations.

We are looking for around 5-10 volunteers from UW who can perform any one or more of the tasks below:

1. Creating Entry Level Cover Letters
2. Creating Entry Level Resumes
3. Applying for Entry Level Job Positions on various job platforms

This could be a great volunteer experience for resumes, CVs, applications, and would definitely be a very rewarding and beneficial experience to hopefully help people who are struggling with homelessness. 

Additionally, the commitment is flexible in terms of how many hours you would be willing to put in, and can be done from the comfort of your home or anywhere else!

Please feel free to apply at https://upwardjourneys.org/volunteers/ and you can also email me at sarif@uw.edu if you have any questions or suggestions.

Hi students, 

I am looking for a few volunteers to greet and speak with first year undecided engineering students that we have invited to our career fair. 

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0C44ACA72DABFB6-45658158-ceecareer

CEE Career Fair Host (for Freshmen Engineering Students)

This is something new we would like to try this year in an effort to recruit more Freshmen to our department.  We will host a table (titled: 1st year Engineering Undergrad – Career Fair Help) where 1st year engineering students (who have not yet picked their major) can come and get one of our own students to take them around to a company or booth of their choice and introduce them to one of the recruiters there. The hope is that the 1st year student will get to talk to someone in the civil/environmental engineering industry and get a feel for what they do it and why they love it.  But, we need YOU to be at the table, greet the students as they come in, and escort them to a company of interest. You will also give them a note card that they will fill out with basic information about the person they met and, if they return it to the table, they get a $5 Starbucks gift card.  I am looking for about 3-4 volunteers for each of two shifts. 

www.signupgenius.com

WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO

This is something new we would like to try this year in an effort to recruit more Freshmen to our department. Continue reading →

Hello CEE Students –

The CEE Department is hosting an event for prospective CEE students and we would like to extend the invite to current CIVE/ENVE students.

If you have an interest in talking with younger students about your path to CEE and your passion for all areas of civil and environmental engineering, this is for you!

Details on the event can be found below. If you are interested in attending, please complete the RSVP Survey Here.

Space is limited!

(Please note that you will not need to make a presentation. You will just be interacting with prospective students in a casual environment.)

We hope you will join us!

-Brian & Lauren

Title: CEE  Meet-UP

About:  This event is for prospective engineering students who share an interest in our majors. This event will provide them with an opportunity to learn about our department,  and meet CEE faculty, advisers, and current students (You!). Continue reading →

Hello!

My name is Anya Gavrylko, and I am a research assistant for the Bird Friendly UW project, a CSF funded effort to reduce bird collisions on campus. The project is based around UW’s campus and monitors bird collisions with buildings in order to support our long term goal of finding design based solutions and identifying which species in our area are most vulnerable to collisions.

To carry out this research our project needs student volunteers to walk collision monitoring routes for one hour-long shift a week. Volunteering with us is a great way for students to practice bird identification and engage with urban wildlife, while also gaining experience in a research setting. We need volunteers for this summer and the fall!

In Autumn Quarter 2023 we will also be offering a class, ARCH 499: Conservation Design – Preventing Bird Building Collisions for students interested in learning more about preventing bird collisions, sustainable architecture, and urban conservation efforts. By taking this class students can get credit for walking routes and enhance their overall learning! Continue reading →