UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Announcements

As a graduate student, you will write many emails in the service of finding a job--emails that request informational interviews, set up interviews, and follow up on interviews. This workshop, which is designed for graduate students who speak English as a second or foreign language, will break down the language necessary to make polite requests over email. It will also cover basic email etiquette and include opportunities to edit real example emails written by graduate students. Friday, April 10th, 12:00-1:45pm ( ical ) Location: Conference Room 4, Student Activities Center (basement level)

UCLA MASTER’S & PHD  CAREER CONFERENCE Thursday, April 30, 2015    9 am - 6pm Ackerman Student Unio n Free for UCLA Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars . Breakfast, lunch, and happy hour are included. Student and Postdoc registration now open.   To register please go to: career.ucla.edu/RegisterMPCC The UCLA Master’s & PhD Career Conference is a one day symposium for UCLA Graduate Students and Postdocs to connect with more than 100 employers and advanced degree alumni,  explore career paths, and develop professional skills used in and outside of the academy.  Keynote: Karen Kelsky “Turning your PhD into a Job”  Break Out Sessions Include: • 7 Secrets of Highly Effective Researchers & Scholars • The Science and Strategy of Effective Communication  How to Articulate your Transferrable Skills to Industry • Marketing Yourself 101 • Entrepreneurship for Scientists...

COLLEGE ACADEMIC MENTOR (CAM) - POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 2015 - 2016 The College of Letters and Science seeks outstanding graduate students for participation in the College Academic Mentor (CAM) Program at College Academic Counseling. The program trains graduate students to work as academic mentors for lower and upper division students in the College of Letters and Science. The goal of the program is to enhance the undergraduate experience and provide assistance to undergraduates in holistically assessing their personal and academic situations and evaluating campus resources that will further their goals at UCLA. Furthermore, CAMs will work with students to formulate specific solutions to the special challenges faced by undergraduates at a large research university. Additionally, CAMs function as a conduit for information about making the transition from und...

UCLA Graduate Student Resource Center and GSA Present Graduate Student Leadership Dinner  Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)  Where: Pauley Pavilion Club  Who: For all current leaders, future leaders, or active members of graduate student groups and organizations at UCLA.  What: Enjoy a FREE CATERED DINNER while you: - Meet other graduate student groups on campus - Discuss your group's events that are coming up in winter and spring - Connect with other groups that may have similar goals and interests, and find people who can help you plan your event! Questions: Contact gsrcprograms@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu   RSVP link: http://tinyurl.com/gsrcleaders

LEED When: April 25 th  2015 – 12:00PM – 5:00PM Where: UCLA - Boelter Hall - Room: Penthouse Registration: http://leadinggreen.ca/ucla Interested in getting involved in the Green Building Industry? Opportunities are plentiful in the field of sustainable design and LEED is at its forefront.   LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is simply a green-rating point system, or a scorecard. The more energy efficient and sustainable a building is, the more points it will earn. To date, this course and its materials have proven to be instrumental in helping over 3000 students pass their respective exam at a 100% pass rate. This course is offered at a quarter of the price and time as the competition and is geared at allowing students to graduate with letters after their name!   Just as Buildings can be LEED certified, people in the sustainable construction industry can become LEED Professionals. The LEED Green As...

2015 IEEE UFFC Distinguished Lecture April 9, 2:00 pm, UCLA NSF ERC center   Title: Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems Prof. Susan Trolier-McKinstry Materials Research Institute Penn State University Piezoelectric thin films are of increasing interest in low voltage microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting. They also serve as model systems to study fundamental behavior in piezoelectrics. The seminar will discuss how materials are optimized for these applications, as well as examples of the use of piezoelectric films over a wide range of length scales. The key figures of merit for actuators and energy harvesting will be discussed, with emphasis on how to achieve these on practical substrates. For example, control of the domain structure of the ferroelectric material allows the energy harvesting figure of merit for the piezoelectric layer to be increased by factors of 4 – 10. Likewise, control of crystallographic ...

ATTN CEE Graduate Students If you plan to graduate and walk in the 2014-2015 commencement ceremony and/or would like to be included in the commencement publication please read the below post thoroughly and carefully as there are items that require your action . ___________________________________________________________________________________ Who may participate in the 2014-2015 Commencement Ceremony? Students with graduation term... Summer 2014: Eligible, if did not participate in 2013-2014 ceremony via special request Fall 2014: Eligible, if did not participate in 2013-2014 ceremony via special request Winter 2015: Eligible, as long as you completed Civil Engineering degree requirements Spring 2015: Eligible, as long as you will complete Civil Engineering degree requirements by end of Spring term Summer 2015: Eligible via special request Fall 2015: Eligible via special request ______________________...