UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Announcements

Writing the Fulbright U.S. Fellowship Application This workshop will cover strategies for writing the Fulbright U.S. fellowship application. We will discuss the structure and content of key documents using examples. We will address writing tips for fellowship applications as well as specific advice for this Fulbright fellowship. Thursday, May 3rd, 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Conference Room 4, Student Activities Center (basement level)   Map:  http://gwc.gsrc.ucla.edu/ Location   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://app.gsrc.ucla.ed u/gwc/reservations/ Please note: only UCLA graduate students are eligible for writing appointments.

Career Insiders Networking Night featuring GradBar by the Graduate Students Association Friday, May 4th | Switzer Plaza | 4:00 - 6:00 M Register for the Networking Night:  https://careerinsidersnetworkingnight.eventbrite.com Register for one-on-one informational interviews with professionals and alumni:  career.ucla.edu/Career_Insider/interviews Connecting STEM graduate students and postdocs with industry, this event is specially designed to help you meet with professionals in a variety of fields.  Featuring GradBar provided by the Graduate Students Association. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Career Center, UCLA Graduate Division, and the Graduate Students Association

cee200: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Seminar UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering Department Nitrate Removal by Biochar-Amended Woodchip Biofilters Alexander Berger Master’s Student Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA Stormwater biofilters, particularly woodchip biofilters, have been used to remove nitrate from stormwater, but their performance is expected to decrease under extreme weather conditions such as prolonged drying and high rainfall intensity, which are expected to be more frequent during climate change. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of antecedent drying conditions and rainfall intensity on nitrate removal capacity of woodchip biofilters and evaluate whether addition fo biochar would decrease the detrimental effect of high intensity rainfall on nitrate removal. Nitrate removal capacity of biochar-amended woodchip biofilters (0-20% biochar by volume) were compared at storm event with different rainfall intensities (...

CEE 200: Structural & Geotechnical Engineering Seminar UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering Department Data-driven structural seismic response reconstruction framework: a machine learning perspective Han Sun Ph.D. Candidate University of California, Los Angeles Strucutral seismic resilience society has been grown rapidly in the past three decades. Extensive probabilistic techniques have been developed to address uncertainties from ground motions and building systems to reduce structural damage, economic loss and social impact of buildings subjected to seismic hazards where seismic structural responses are essential and often are retrieved through Nonlinear Response History Analysis. This process is largely limited by availability of model, ground motion time history and computational effort. An alternative data-driven framework is proposed to reconstruct structure responses through machine learning techniques from limited available sources which may potentially b...