New Graduate Student
Orientation
Environmental and Water Resources
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
Friday, August 19th
Engineering Center CR 211
Schedule
• 9:00 am
• 9:15 am
• 9:45 am
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10:00 am
10:15 am
10:30 am
11:15 am
11:45 am
noon
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:30 pm
3:45 pm
Welcome
New Student Introductions
Meet the Department Staff/
Graduate Students Logistics
Graduate Degree Requirements
Break
Meet the Faculty
Courses and Registration
Libraries
Lunch
Current Graduate Students
Engineering Center Tour
RA and TA Responsibilities
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 students
Environmental, 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, CEAE
http://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.
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Preliminary examination
Comprehensive examination
Dissertation
Defense
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Graduate Degree Requirements
• Undergraduate Prerequisites
– Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential
Equations (four semesters)
– Physics (two semesters)
– Solid Mechanics
– Fluid Mechanics
Water Resources
– General Chemistry (two semesters)
– Fundamentals of Environmental
Engineering
– Engineering Geology
Environmental Engineering
– Construction Methods
Environmental Engineering, EDC
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Break
15 minutes
Celestial
Seasonings
Real McCoy Grill
(closed until
Monday, just
vending
machines)
Meet the Faculty
Environmental
Angela Bielefeldt (on sabbatical)
Mark Hernandez (traveling)
Diane McKnight
Joseph Ryan
JoAnn Silverstein
Scott Summers (traveling)
Michael Hannigan (MCEN)
Jana Milford (MCEN)
Shelly Miller (MCEN)
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Joe Ryan
• Jobs:
Professor, CEAE
Director, EVEN
Affiliated 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: 303-492-0772
email: joseph.ryan@colorado.edu
web: 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)
Lumbricus terrestris
• Microbe Transport in Saturated Porous Media
– EPA, USGS, NSF
– Rula Abu-Dalo (PhD)
– Ron Harvey (USGS)
Giardia lamblia
• Mercury Binding by Natural Organic Matter
– NSF, USGS
– Chase Gerbig (PhD), ??? (PhD)
– George Aiken (USGS)
Alligator mississippiensis
• AMD Metal Fate and Transport
– Outreach
– Susan Bautts (MS), Brianna Shanklin (MS)
Prospectus mineralus
Meet the Faculty
Water Resources
John Crimaldi
Vijay Gupta
Roseanna Neupauer
Harihar Rajaram
Kenneth Strzepek
Balaji Rajagopalan
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• Catalog (online)
• Schedule (online)
• Registration (PLUS)
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• CVEN 5834-001
Special Topics – Environmental
Graduate Seminar (1 credit)
• CVEN 6393
Water Resources Seminar (1 credit)
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• CVEN 5834-004
5834-002
Special Topics – Environmental
Engineering Processes (2
(3 credits)
• CVEN 5834-003
Special Topics – Appropriate Treatment
Technology
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• CVEN 6833-001
Special Topics – Modeling of Reactive
Transport (3 credits)
• CVEN 6833-002
Special Topics – _____ (3 credits)
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• CVEN 5830-003
Special Topics – Sustainable Building
Design (3 credits)
• CVEN 5830-006
Special Topics – Energy Technology and
Policy (3 credits)
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Courses and Registration
• EVEN 4830-010
Special Topics – Environmental
Sampling and Analysis (3 credits)
– graduate credit
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
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”
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
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
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Engineering Center Tour
Classroom Wing
ITS computer labs
Office Tower
CEAE office, Faculty offices
Civil Engineering Wing
Bechtel Laboratory, grad offices
Stores and Labs Wing
Research labs
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
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
– thesis
http://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
http://ceae.colorado.edu/
Glad You’re Here!