UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Announcements

CONCUR’s intensive two-day workshop is designed to meet the needs of professionals and graduate students alike who are in a position to advise on or negotiate environmental agreements.   The training is also an excellent opportunity for   graduate students to gain insight into this important field and mingle with mid career professionals. In this course, we show you how the process of face-to-face negotiation can augment traditional policy making with creative agreements that are better informed and more stable. During the training, course participants will learn the elements of mutual gains bargaining, apply them in a series of hands-on negotiation simulations, and troubleshoot how you personally can apply these tools to everyday work situations. Course topics include: *Watershed management, flood protection, and habitat restoration *Strategies to strengthen sustainable US fisheries *Air quality management plans *Coastal and marine spatial planning stakeholder en...

C&EE C105/C205: Structure & Properties of Amorphous Civil Engineering Materials Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00pm - 5:50pm, Boelter Hall 5420 Instructor: Professor Mathieu Bauchy ( bauchy@ucla.edu ) Course Description: Lecture, four hours; outside study, six hours. The objective of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the nature and properties of high technology glasses (fiber optics, smartphone touch-screens, smart infrastructure glasses). Special attention will be paid on composition-structure-properties relationships, and on design and selection with respect to the targeted material science and civil engineering application. Concurrently scheduled with course C105/C205. Letter grading. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. If interested in learning more, please email CEESAO@seas.ucla.edu for the syllabus.

CEE 249 Structural Engineering Seminar UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering Department RESILIENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCIES OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES DURING EMERGENCIES Dr. Gian Paolo Cimellaro Associate Professor in Structural Engineering Department of Structural, Geotechnical & Building Engineering (DISEG), Politecnico di Torino The fundamental concepts of “community resilience” are analyzed and a common reference framework is established.   Several applications of the framework are presented for strategic facilities (e.g. hospitals and schools) and infrastructure networks (e.g. gas, water, power etc.) that are the basis of life and economy of every community. The hospital and the school are assumed located in California and retrofitted with two different strategies. First, the traditional performance-based earthquake evaluation tools are used to estimate the repair costs and the downtimes which are used as input of the proposed methodology to evalua...

Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) - Spring 2015 Classes   These classes can be enrolled in by students at any of the nine UC campuses in an effort to broaden their education, increase their online learning opportunities, meet general education requirements and complete course requirements for their majors in a timely fashion.   Registration opens this coming Monday, February 9, 2015 .  Students can enroll in courses through the Cross-Campus Enrollment website @ http://crossenroll.universityofcalifornia.edu/ , and find detailed class descriptions and credit values.  

Spring 2015 registration is right around the corner! Here are a few tips...       View the Spring 2015 Online Schedule of Classes: Click HERE   When can I start enrolling? Check MyUCLA for your appointment time. Graduate appointments begin February 12th. View the Registrar's Spring 2015 Academic Calendar for more information. How many units do I need to take? All graduate students must enroll in at least 12 units. - Most MS students will reach 12 units by taking 3 required/elective courses toward their MS program plus seminar. Those who need additional units to meet the minimum 12 may take CEE 597A: Preparation for the M.S. Comp Exam or CEE 598: Research & Prep for the M.S. Thesis. I can't find CEE 249 or 259A (CEE Seminar)? The course number for seminar has changed to CEE 200. CEE 249 is now CEE 200 Section 1. CEE 259A is now CEE 200 Section 2. Do I have to enroll in seminar? All MS students must enroll in seminar each quarter. All PhD st...

ATTN: All Graduate Students Required to Enroll in Seminar for Winter 2015 Question: I am looking at my Winter 2015 registration and I see that one of my required courses conflicts with the seminar course. What do I do? Answer: Be sure to enroll in both the required course and the seminar course. There will be enough seminars offered outside of the classroom meeting time posted online for you to fulfill the requirements of the seminar course. Please contact the CEE SAO at CEESAO@seas.ucla.edu if you would like to discuss further!

  CEE 1: Infrastructure Seminar Series   Dr. Lucile M. Jones, Science Advisor for Risk Reduction, US Geological Survey, will present "Seismic Resilience in Los Angeles, California: Using Comprehensive Science-based Disaster Scenarios to Support Seismic Safety Policy." When: December 12, 2014 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm Where: 1249B Bunche Hall Click HERE for an abstract and Speaker Bio!  

"Metal Oxide Sensors for Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring" Kristen Dorsey UC President's Postdoctoral Researcher Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, UC San Diego Friday, November 21, 2014 38-138 Engineering IV Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Abstract: Metal oxide gas sensors have been proposed as a solution for portable, outdoor air quality monitoring. Their low unit price and small form factor make them promising sensors for the detection of EPA-identified criteria gas pollutants. When exposed to a target gas, the conductivity of the metal oxide layer shifts, leading to a sensor response that is easily detected by readout circuitry. However, these sensors exhibit ...

ATTN: Structures Graduate Students There is a new course offering for Winter 2015 that is also an approved ST-EQ and ST-Mech elective! CEE 244: Structural Loads and Safety for Civil Structures Instructor: Dr. Henry Burton Please note this course is not currently listed as an elective in the CEE Program Requirements , but has been approved as an elective. No further paperwork is required for students who take this course and wish to apply it toward their MS Degree. For Questions please contact the CEE SAO at CEESAO@seas.ucla.edu

ATTN: Environmental Engineering and Hydrology and Water Resources Graduate Students RE: Course offering for Winter 2015 This is just an advertisement for CEE 250C: Hydrometeorology that will be offered next quarter. Among other things the course focuses on understanding the climate system and how it works. As part of the course, students participate in a group project involving you running a global climate model. This course will satisfy ENV/HWR course requirements . Note: The CEE 250A pre-requisite is an old one and is not enforced, so if you haven't taken CEE 250A, you could still take CEE 250C.

MAE C137/C237 - Design and Analysis of Smart Grids Lecture – Tuesday & Thursday, 10 a.m. – 11 50 a.m., Boelter Hall – Room 8500. For both undergraduates (elective) and graduate students Email CEESAO@seas.ucla.edu for the full syllabus! The course will provide a systems perspective to the design and analysis of smart grids. Smart grid technologies such as Demand Response, Transactive/Price-based load control, Home-area networks, Advanced Metering Systems, and Smart appliances will be introduced. Renewable energy generation sources such as solar and wind will be studied in the context of their intermittency and integration into the grid.   Micro-grids and their role in the grid stability will be studied.   Integration and stability of grid by way of energy storage will be discussed.   The impact of electric vehicles on the grid and advances in power systems to incorporate such vehicles will be studied.   Simulation techniques, monitoring and contr...