Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar for First-Year Research Students

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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.