We would like to invite you to our upcoming Sustainability Open House on Saturday, October 2nd from 3-6 pm! We will have interactive demos of our sustainable systems, fun games, and all guests will receive free sustainable swag! Please see the attached flyer for more information. We hope you will be able to stop by!
Do you have questions about graduate school? Join Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering (CEGE) faculty and graduate students, as well as the MTU Graduate School, for Grad Info Night on Tuesday (Sept. 28) at 6 p.m. in the Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC), Room 202 — or virtually through Zoom (please register for Zoom in advance).
Learn about the reasons to consider graduate school, the accelerated and online M.S. programs, application process, financial aid and much more.
This event is sponsored by Chi Epsilon, CEGE, and the MTU Graduate School.
ITE Michigan – Young Professional Committee (YPC) “Virtual Lunch and Learn” Webinar Series
The YPC is proud to announce we will be hosting our first Virtual Lunch and Learn of our Webinar Series. This is a great opportunity for students and young professionals to connect with experience professionals and learn a little more about how our profession works. If you have any questions or if you would like to present a topic in the future, please contact the YPC Committee Chair Cole Villalobos at Cvillalobos@hrcengr.com. Hope to see you all there.
YPC Lunch and Learn Presentation – September 22
How MDOT Operations Projects are Selected – presented by John Engle, P.E.
Have you ever wondered about the process of how MDOT operational improvement projects are selected? Have you ever wondered what a funding template is, or what process MDOT follows in selecting operational improvements on its highway network? This Virtual Lunch and Learn discussion, geared toward young professionals, will be led by John Engle, P.E. of the Michigan DOT, and he will help answer these questions as well as provide some practical commentary on how MDOT’s Operations Template selects and funds projects. The one-hour session is free to attend, and will take place September 22, 2021, from 11am-Noon.
To register for the YPC September 22 presentation, please use the link below.
The Society of Women Engineers would like to invite you, any student, to Evening with Industry, our annual industry networking dinner with the largest number of company representatives present together outside of a Career Fair. We have multiple employers who are hiring civil and environmental engineers.
The Evening with Industry event will be held virtually at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, September 21st. The link to student registration, which closes on September 14th, can be found here: http://www.mtuswe.com/ewifor-students. Again, the event is free to all students regardless of gender. We even have a referral contest going for students who encourage their friends to sign up, so be sure to tell your colleagues- you might even win something! With questions, please email sweewi@mtu.edu.
Adventure is calling, HOWL back! Take advantage of the three-day virtual study abroad fair to meet with study abroad professionals to learn about your options, and start planning your study abroad adventure! The virtual fair will take place September 13th – 15th. All sessions will be recorded and posted to the Michigan Tech study abroad YouTube channel.
Please find the attached flyer for the event the SSC is hosting next week Wednesday, September 15, 5-6pm. We encourage you all to come to this event!
On September 15 from 5pm to 6pm, the CEGE SSC will be hosting an event on how to talk to company recruiters. Some civil and environmental engineering companies have agreed to provide information. This is a great way to prepare for the career fair and meet people. If interested, please RSVP by September 10.
Be on the lookout for future monthly activities.
The CEGE SSC (Student Success Center) is excited to announce some exciting new events! This September we will be organizing a hike to Hungarian Falls with CEGE students planned for the 18th. Please fill out the attached form by September 10th if interested.
Sincerely, The CEGE SSC
The Michigan Tech Engineering Ambassadors is currently looking for new members!
Our mission is that through communication and leadership, we strive to become well-rounded engineers by motivating the next generation to improve our world. As part of our program, you will get to:
· Create and present your own STEM topic to a real audience!
· Conduct hands-on activities to reinforce your topic principles!
· Excite and inspire middle and high school students to pursue STEM careers!
· Improve your resume with this outreach experience!
Find out more about us at our INFORMATION SESSION on THURSDAY September 9th at 6:00 PM in FISHER 129. First general meeting is on Thursday September 16th at 6:00 PM in Fisher 129.
Contact group leader Brittney Duford (bkduford@mtu.edu) advisor Jaclyn Johnson at jenesbit@mtu.edu or Nancy Barr at nbbarr@mtu.edu to be added to the email list or with any questions. We hope you’ll join us!
Plan to Attend: The GMES and CEE departments, along with the Sustainable Futures Institute at MTU, have collaborated this year to host the 2021 Kappe Lecturer – David Dzombak – in a virtual event.
Is sustainable mining achievable? Can environmental engineering help get us there?
This event is made possible through support from the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors.
When: 3:00 PM Tuesday, September 21st.
How to Attend: In person for live streaming in MEEM 112 or Virtually
Description: Extraction and processing of fuel and non-fuel minerals from the Earth has a plethora of impacts on land, water, air and ecosystems. Reduction and remediation of these impacts have long engaged environmental engineers in research and practice. Application of sustainability principles to mining is inherently challenging, considering the impacts involved and that mining involves removal of finite resources. However, as demand continues for fuel minerals such as coal and non-fuel minerals such as metals, consideration of environmental sustainability is increasingly being incorporated into development and operation of mines.
This talk will examine the environmental sustainability profiles of fuel and non-fuel mineral mining, and efforts that have been undertaken over the past 30 years to improve these profiles. The talk will focus on coal and copper mining in the U.S. as important examples of fuel- and non-fuel mineral mining. Current and evolving mining industry practices and related environmental engineering activities will be reviewed. Approaches for assessing the environmental sustainability of mining operations will be presented and applied to the two cases, with consideration of scale from operations at individual sites to system level.
The meaning of sustainable mining will be explored, as will the potential to achieve sustainable mining for fuel and non-fuel minerals. A framework for assessment of sustainability in mining that includes life-cycle metrics will be put forward. Application of the framework to copper will be presented as an example. The role of environmental engineers in advancing the environmental sustainability of mining will be examined with the audience.
About the Speaker: David Dzombak is the Hamerschlag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. The emphasis of his research and teaching is on water quality engineering, water resource sustainability, and energy-environment issues. At Carnegie Mellon he also has served as Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs for the College of Engineering (2006-2010), as Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research (2007-2013), and as Interim Vice Provost of Sponsored Programs (November 2012-August 2013).
Dzombak received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He also holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering (1981) and a B.S. in Civil Engineering (1980) from Carnegie Mellon, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Saint Vincent College (1980). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.