CEE 5025

Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar for First-Year Research Students

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

We will invite our CEE faculty to host presentations related to topics they feel open to discussing. Examples may include: how to have a successful PhD and pitfalls to avoid, the academic and industry job markets, academic writing and presenting, how to select research topics, topics currently popular in research and who certain key players / universities / companies are, grants fellowships and scholarships, postdocs, effective teaching, the differences between being an academic in different types of schools and departments, work-life balance, etc. The seminar will be very interactive, with students asking questions, internal discussions between student and faculty/non-student seminar participants, the students giving presentations, and other student-driven activities that will be interactively defined as the semester evolves.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: PhD students.

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Outcomes REF-FA25

• Introduce research graduate students to campus resources that will serve them throughout their degree program, the culture of their home-department, and the greater University.
• Contextualize of research concentrations and faculty affiliations with the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• Demonstrate competence in proactive leadership communication skills.
• Provide tools and support to students that will help conduct sustainable research progress within the PhD program. These tools will hopefully be application to care.

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