UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Announcements

Distilling Your Message with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Wednesday April 20th, 2016 1pm-3:00pm CNSI Auditorium Registration: https://distilling-your-message-2016.eventbrite.com This session will cover general principles in how to craft short, clear, conversational statements, intelligible to non-scientists, about what you do and why it matters. Session consists of an interactive presentation and discussion on interpreting technical material using examples and analogies to illuminate unfamiliar concepts to your audience. The plenary will address problems and solutions in public interactions as well as peer-to-peer communication. Participants will practice clarity in speaking to non-scientists about their work and may be actively engaged in improv exercises or explaining scientific material to lay audiences. Speaker : Judy Muller Judy Muller is an award-winning broadcast journalist and professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication ...

Position: Project Engineer Company: Malcolm Drilling Co., Inc. Location: Irwindale, CA Job Type: Full Time Years of Experience: None – Entry Level Position Industry: Construction – Deep Foundations and Geotechnical Education Level: Bachelors or Masters Degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Management Geotechnical Emphasis and/or Interest a Plus Salary: $45,000 to $60,000 DOE About the Job: Malcolm Drilling Company, Inc. is a leading nationwide specialty foundation and geotechnical contractor. The company has for 50 years been an innovator and leader in the deep foundation industry. Our list of core services include drilled shafts, micropiles, auger cast piles, excavation support systems, cutoff and secant pile walls, slope stabilization, jet grouting, deep soil mixing, underpinning, dewatering, and Omega displacement piles. Malcolm’s Southern California District office located in Irwindale is currently seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of Project Engineer....

Ex-Consultants Agency is now accepting applications for internal, entry - level position .  Here ( https://goo.gl/LnTaM0 ) you will find more information about our company and below are the links to our job description: Associate - Rotational Program ( https://goo.gl/s8oGXs ) Associate – Marketing and BD Associate ( https://goo.gl/Gjsvhl ) Please submit your CV and writing sample via Bruinview by May 4 th .  We will be holding on-campus interviews on May 11 th . In addition, if you are interested in learning more about ECA and the executive search industry, please apply to our “Meet ECA” opportunity. At this invite only event, participants have the opportunity to tour our offices, meet senior members of our team, and learn about the executive search industry. Meet Ex-Consultants Agency ( https://goo.gl/lwgEPM ) Please submit your CV via Bruinview by May 9 th .  Our event will be on May 13 th .

Email Etiquette for the Job-Seeker 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 will break down the language necessary to make polite requests and arrangements over email. It will also cover basic email etiquette and include opportunities to edit real example emails written by graduate students. Friday, April 15th ,  12:00 - 1:45pm Location: Conference Room 4, Student Activities Center (basement level) (map)  GWC Writing Appointments If you would like to schedule a free one-on-one writing appointment with a writing consultant, please use our online reservation page:  https://gsrc.ucla.edu/gwc/reservations/   Please note: only UCLA graduate students are eligible for writing appointments.

ServiceWorks is a groundbreaking national program designed to empower youth in South Central Los Angeles to get involved in service and be the change in their community. We are in need of volunteers to help us facilitate this transformative process for our high school youth.  We have numerous ways for you to get involved so don't hesitate to learn more and see how you can get involved with the program. Be a Success Coach - like a short-term mentor or Be a Skills Trainer - help youth develop the skills to plan their own community service project or more! - We are in particular need for a Skills Trainer for Wednesday mornings!  Please view the flyer for more information  or fill out a volunteer form here or  contact Tiffany "TiDo" Do at  tdo@cdtech.org . 

On Wednesday, 04/20/16, from 6PM to 9PM, the UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity will hold its last Tri-Org Structured Study Night (SSN) of the Fall quarter.  Students have requested assistance with CEE 144. Graduate students who serve as tutors at this event will receive free dinner that night and a $25 UCLA gift card a few days after the event.  If you are available to assist students with CEE 144 at the upcoming SSN, please send an Email message to apool@ucla.edu

THE LABORATORY OF SOIL MECHANICS AT THE EPFL The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics (LMS) is one of the laboratories within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). The LMS focuses its research activities in the field of geotechnical engineering with a focus on the protection from geo-hazards and industrial damage to the environment, landforms and structures. In addition to the conventional topics such as soil-structure interactions, slope stability and foundation design, our experimental and modelling resources are mobilised to understand, describe and predict the environmental impact of the technologies of future days (bio-improved soils, nuclear waste disposal, CO2 geological sequestration, and energy technologies related to heat storage and extraction). The LMSis directed by Prof. Lyesse Laloui and has 2 academic staff members, 4 Post-docs, 14 PhD students. More information about the LMS and it...