In the News: CEE team builds 3-D model of campus to understand aging dam

Two civil engineering students built a 3-D model of Berkeley’s campus to better understand what’s going on with one of California’s many aging dams.

Katherine Cheng and Tamika Bassman, third-year CEE undergraduates, joined CEE Visiting Professor Robert Kayen, in making sure his measuring tools for scanning California's Hume Lake Dam were properly calibrated.

The team used the university landscape to figure out the best and most accurate way to manage all of the data they collected at the Hume Lake site. 

In the News: Alexandre Bayen and a computer vision to protect patients

Professor Alexandre Bayen partnered with computer science PhD student, Pulkit Agrawal, to design and eventually market a reliable, inexpensive computer vision technology to improve detection and risk of falls for people with Alzheimer's.

Along with team members, Julien Jacquemot, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and PhD student George Netscher, they saw the potential of passive vision-based sensing technology to overcome the limitations of the previous approaches. 

Sally Thompson appointed the inaugural holder of the Clare & Hsieh Wen Shen Distinguished Professorship

Sally Thompson

Professor Sally Thompson has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Clare & Hsieh Wen Shen Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

This is a well deserved honor, and a recognition of Thompson's path-breaking work in eco-hydrology.

External Job - Wed, 02/28/2018 - 12:00

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The City and County of San Francisco is seeking student interns for various engineering and architecture disciplines, to provide support to in-house Engineering · Architecture · Landscape Architecture · Planning · Surveying · GIS · IT staff. The City Departments that employ interns are the Airport Commission (SFO), Department of Building Inspection (DBI), Department of Technology (DT), Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA), Port of San Francisco (Port), San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), Public Works, and Recreation and Park Department (RPD). Interns will gain on-the-job experience under the guidance of experienced professional engineers, architects, planners and surveyors. Interns will participate in various activities in the respective City Departments.

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External Job - Tue, 02/20/2018 - 12:00

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The selected candidate will have opportunities to participate in a variety of research efforts, including:

  • Experimental research studies, including initiating, designing, and conducting a variety of air pollution research studies,
  • Analytical research studies, including estimating source impacts on local air quality and community exposures, personal exposure analysis, spatial analysis, and evaluation of emissions inventories, and
  • Source apportionment and air quality modeling studies, including source characterization, land use regression modeling, and air pollution dispersion in local communities.

Candidates must have extensive experience in conducting experimental field studies, analyzing large datasets, statistical and numerical analysis, and knowledge of air quality and exposure modeling, and source apportionment tools. Strong knowledge and direct working experience with air pollution monitoring instrumentation is also desirable.

The Section is responsible for a variety of innovative research efforts, including large-scale experimental field studies using state-of-the-art tools like ARB’s state-of-the-art mobile measurement platforms, high fidelity air pollution and GHG research analyzers, and portable and low-cost air quality sensors to study real-world emission and exposure impacts of various emission sources. Some key projects include the California Statewide Methane Survey, emission flux estimation and inventory evaluation studies for local and regional GHG emission sources, personal exposure studies in commute modes and other microenvironments, community-level air pollution exposure studies with mobile and saturation monitors, and real-world on-road emission estimation from California freeways and other fleets. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to advise the agency on the impacts of adopted rules, prioritize source sectors for research and air pollution mitigating efforts, publish and present research findings at scientific venues, and build strategic research partnerships with national and international stakeholders. Some travel may be required.

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

External Job - Wed, 03/14/2018 - 12:00

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Rieser Building Group, Inc. is looking for civil engineering interns for their company. The interns will only work on civil engineering projects that include bidding, cost estimation, home design, structural design, traffic, transportation and forensic analysis. It is a great opportunity. The potential candidates only need to bring a resume to receive an interview. The hours are very flexible . Please ask for Mark or call at 408 386-0721. Attached is the flyer.

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Civil and Environmental Engineering
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