New Graduate StudentOrientation

Environmental and Water Resources

Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

Friday, August 19th

Engineering Center CR 211

Schedule

• 9:00 am Welcome• 9:15 am New Student Introductions• 9:45 am Meet the Department Staff/

Graduate Students Logistics• 10:00 am Graduate Degree Requirements• 10:15 am Break• 10:30 am Meet the Faculty• 11:15 am Courses and Registration• 11:45 am Libraries• noon Lunch• 2:00 pm Current Graduate Students• 2:30 pm Engineering Center Tour• 3:30 pm RA and TA Responsibilities• 3:45 pm Final Questions

Welcome

Professor JoAnn Silverstein Chair Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

Department

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

New Student Introductions

Who are you, where are you from, where did you go to school, what are you going to do here?

Water Resources, 6 new studentsEnvironmental, 18 new students

Meet the Department Staff

Jan DeMay (janet.demay@colorado.edu) Graduate Coordinator, CEAE

Cyndi Alvarado (cyndi.alvarado@colorado.edu)

Office Supervisor, CEAE

Wayne Morrison (wayne.morrison@colorado.edu)

Accountant, CEAEhttp://ceae.colorado.edu/

Graduate Degree Requirements

• Master of Science, Civil Engineering

– Plan I (“thesis”)• courses, 24 credits• thesis, 6 credits

– Plan II (“course work”)• courses, 30 credits

– up to 6 credits of independent study

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Graduate Degree Requirements

• Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering

– Courses, 30 credits• 21 credits transfer from CU M.S.• 15 credits transfer from other M.S.

– Preliminary examination– Comprehensive examination– Dissertation– Defense

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Graduate Degree Requirements

• Undergraduate Prerequisites– Calculus, Linear Algebra, and

Differential Equations (four semesters) – Physics (two semesters)– Solid Mechanics– Fluid Mechanics– General Chemistry (two semesters)– Fundamentals of Environmental

Engineering– Engineering Geology– Construction Methods

Water Resources

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering, EDC

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Break

15 minutes Celestial

Seasonings Real McCoy

Grill (closed until Monday, just vending machines)

Meet the Faculty

EnvironmentalAngela Bielefeldt (on sabbatical)

Mark Hernandez (traveling)Diane McKnightJoseph RyanJoAnn SilversteinScott Summers (traveling)

Michael Hannigan (MCEN)Jana Milford (MCEN)

Shelly Miller (MCEN) http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Joe Ryan

• Jobs:Professor, CEAEDirector, EVENAffiliated Faculty: Environmental Studies Program (ENVS) Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Center of the American West

• Office:Engineering Center OT 517

• Contact information:phone: 303-492-0772email: joseph.ryan@colorado.eduweb: http://www.colorado.edu/ceae/environmental/ryan/ http://civil.colorado.edu/environ/ http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/even/

Joe Ryan – Teaching

• CVEN 3454 Water Chemistry (every spring)

• CVEN 4424/5424 Environmental Organic Chemistry (every fall)

• CVEN 6414 Aquatic Surfaces and Particles (now and then)

• EVEN 1000 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (fall)

• EVEN 4830/ENVS 5100 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Abandoned Mine Remediation (fall 2006?)

Joe Ryan – Research

• Mobilization of Colloids in the Unsaturated Zone– NSF, DOE– Ned Turner (MS), Tim Dittrich (PhD)– James Saiers (Yale University)

• Microbe Transport in Saturated Porous Media– EPA, USGS, NSF– Rula Abu-Dalo (PhD)– Ron Harvey (USGS)

• Mercury Binding by Natural Organic Matter– NSF, USGS– Chase Gerbig (PhD), ??? (PhD)– George Aiken (USGS)

• AMD Metal Fate and Transport– Outreach – Susan Bautts (MS), Brianna Shanklin (MS)

Giardia lamblia

Prospectus mineralus

Alligator mississippiensis

Lumbricus terrestris

Meet the Faculty

Water ResourcesJohn Crimaldi

Vijay GuptaRoseanna NeupauerHarihar RajaramKenneth Strzepek

Balaji Rajagopalan

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Courses and Registration

• Catalog (online)

• Schedule (online)

• Registration (PLUS)

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Courses and Registration

• CVEN 5834-001Special Topics – Environmental Graduate Seminar (1 credit)

• CVEN 6393Water Resources Seminar (1 credit)

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Courses and Registration

• CVEN 5834-002Special Topics – Environmental Engineering Processes (2 credits)

• CVEN 5834-003Special Topics – Appropriate Treatment Technology

(3 credits)

CVEN 5834-004

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Courses and Registration

• CVEN 6833-001Special Topics – Modeling of Reactive Transport (3 credits)

• CVEN 6833-002Special Topics – _____ (3 credits)

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Courses and Registration

• CVEN 5830-003Special Topics – Sustainable Building Design (3 credits)

• CVEN 5830-006Special Topics – Energy Technology and Policy (3 credits)

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Courses and Registration

• EVEN 4830-010Special Topics – Environmental Sampling and Analysis (3 credits)– graduate credit

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Libraries

Jack Maness, Engineering Library

Chinook Library Catalog

http://ceae.colorado.edu/

Lunch

Two Hours (resume at 2 pm)

University Memorial Center (student center)

“The Hill”

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Current Graduate Students

• Water Resources– 22 M.S. students– 16 Ph.D. students

• Environmental– 35 M.S. students– 28 Ph.D. students

• Total– 101 students– 215 total in CEAE

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Engineering Center Tour

Classroom WingITS computer labs

Office TowerCEAE office, Faculty offices

Civil Engineering WingBechtel Laboratory, grad offices

Stores and Labs WingResearch labs

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RA and TA Responsibilities

• Research Assistantships– responsibilities

• laboratory (experiments, data, instrument maintenance, lab management, computer management)

• dissemination (writing, presentations)• outreach (recruiting students)

– 50% appointment• 20 hours per week

– funding from research grants• working with and for a professor

– thesishttp://ceae.colorado.edu/

RA and TA Responsibilities

• Teaching Assistantships– responsibilities

• preparation (researching, copying, managing laboratory)

• teaching (recitation, office hours)• grading

– funding from Department• working for a professor and CEAE

– 50% appointment• 20 hours per week

– move into RA, thesis

Final Reminders and Questions

• Email lists– Environmental (envgrad@lists.colorado.edu)

• instructions for joining the list on the program web page: http://civil.colorado.edu/environ/notices.htm

• unmoderated list, open only to subscribers, faculty on the list

– Water Resources

• Web pages– http://civil.colorado.edu/environ/– http://civil.colorado.edu/web/grad/water/

• Advising– temporary advisors were assigned according to interest– choose advisor(s)– create course plan

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Glad You’re Here!