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INSIDE 03 FROM THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR 04 CE/ENVE CLUB UPDATE 06 ALGAE RESEARCH STATION 08 POWER ENGINEERING 10 NEW PARTNERS SCHOLARS 12 CLASSROOM RENOVATION 14 NEW FACULTY 15 STUDENT BOARD | SUMMIT

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▲ Civil engineering student

Adam Monroe works on using nanoparticles to detect microbes in drinking water during his undergraduate research project sponsored by the Industrial Partners Program (See Page 10).

From The

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Department chair Charles Chadwell shows work in progress in the Trophy Room, long used as the department’s showcase for its many club victories, as it converts to one of the most hightech rooms on campus with money provided by the Platinum Partners.

(See article on Page 12).

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hile we’re all excited about the prospect of inperson classes returning to campus in the fall, I’m also incredibly proud of what our faculty and students achieved during this extremely challenging time.

To cite just a couple of examples, recently, a team of students guided by Professor Hani Alzraiee won first place in the Virtual Design & Construction category at the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Student Competition, and Professor Stefan Talke’s important research on “nuisance flooding” was widely publicized, including stories in Popular Science, Wired and the BBC. Alzraiee and Talke are two of the six faculty members taking part in the exciting new Partners Scholars program, which pairs freshmen students with faculty research exploring relevant, real-world topics. The Partners Scholars is one of several initiatives funded by our successful Industry Partners Program (IPP), both of which you can read more about in this newsletter.

This year, the department was once again named one of the top three of its kind by the U.S. News & World Report, and part of that success can be attributed to the incredible support we get from industry, alumni and friends. Like our IPP, which funds a wide array of initiatives, our donor-supported discretionary fund helps us address a variety of needs that surface —including unexpected ones. When the pandemic forced us to abruptly pivot to virtual classes, we were able to use our discretionary funds to purchase needed server

systems. And once we do return, we will now have a new department van that will come in handy for a multitude of projects.

Of course, our rankings are also heavily influenced by our top-notch faculty, and this year, we’ve welcomed two new assistant professors, Shams Tanvir and Long Wang. Both have been actively involved in research, and they have already involved students in those endeavors. Both Tanvir and Wang participated in the Partners Scholars program.

Club activity in our department serves many functions — providing social and industry connections and skills that further our signature Learn by Doing approach to learning — and as you’ll see here, our clubs have remained active even during the pandemic. But, of course, the rhythmic sound of students sanding a concrete canoe will never sound so good when the activities we’ve come to love return to campus.

It won’t be long. Until then, we wish you well. And, as always, we thank you for your support — be it with dollars, mentorship, jobs or a good word.

Sincerely, Charles Chadwell, Ph.D., P.E. Department Chair

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clubs zooming ALONG

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Forced to go the virtual route by the pandemic, clubs continue to inspire

espite a global pandemic forcing all Cal Poly club activities to be virtual, student clubs in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department continued to provide important career connections and professional development opportunities.

Toward the beginning of winter quarter, the Society of Civil Engineers (SCE) and Society of Environmental Engineers (SENVE) co-hosted the Civil and Environmental Engineering Winter Career Fair. The event, held via Zoom, lasted six days, with scheduled time blocks for students to speak with companies.

Despite Zoom bombers crashing the event one day, the career fair was a success, said SCE President Nadime Younan.

▲ Members of Cal Poly’s Society of Civil Engineers met in the fall for Welcome 2020.

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▲ Members of Cal Poly’s Institute of Transportation Engineers met for their Western District Panel Session

“The most important part of the career fair was always giving students the opportunity to network with potential employers, and we were still able to provide that service,” Younan said.

SCE and SENVE also foster connections through virtual social, professional and community service activities.

The clubs provide different opportunities that encourage involvement among members. SCE and SENVE host game nights where students compete against each other in games like Cards Against Humanities or Codenames.

They also promote membership engagement through mentorship programs or meetings with industry speakers.

“It has been difficult to keep making events that are as engaging as the in-person events we would normally have, but SENVE has addressed that difficulty by planning high quality events but with less frequency,” SENVE President Keon Feldsien said.

Cal Poly’s Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honors society, hosted the 33rd annual Pacific District Conference (PDC) this past quarter. The PDC is an annual leadership conference that aims to develop students’ professionalism, connect

Chi Epsilon with industry and develop bonds within the community.

When in-person, the PDC allows students from different Pacific District chapters to socialize and participate in activities, workshops and competitions.

Planning the first virtual PDC presented many unique challenges for the Chi Epsilon PDC committee.

The PDC typically takes place over a long weekend, but this year, it was held virtually for six days. The conference included mock speed interviews, a virtual career fair, networking opportunities, student committee meetings, project and professional development presentations and a closing ceremony. According to Vice President and PDC Chair Meagan Chan, the committee “wanted to make events that would provide the opportunity for attendees to network while also spurring the competition to win the PDC Cup.”

student chapter of the professional organization, has also adapted to the virtual learning environment and taken advantage of its opportunities.

Within a month, ITE hosted two fully virtual Student Leadership Summits (SLS) in winter quarter. The first, held in January, connected students within the Western District. The second SLS hosted 14 student chapters, which attracted over 270 students representing 90 universities worldwide.

According to ITE President Katherine Lee, organizing virtual conferences is easier in some respects over inperson ones. Lee said they ease responsibilities like travel restrictions and food and venue costs. ITE committee members also learned the capabilities of Zoom and found creative solutions for transitioning to virtual events.

The PDC Cup is awarded to the chapter with the most points from conference events like chapter projects and presentations, committee reports, industry quizzes and other fun activities.

The conference surpassed expectations with ▲ Members of the Cal Poly Chi Ipsilon, the civil engineering honor society, hosted the 33rd annual Pacific District Conference.

200 participants from 14 other chapters within the Pacific District. The PDC committee chose “Unity” as the conference theme.

“The virtual format of this [SLS] conference allowed our committee members to really think outside the box and “During this year of adversity, we believe that it is critical experiment various ways to make ‘traditional’ events... to reconnect and unite so that the Chi Epsilon chapters, into something more interactive,” Lee said. members, and community will continue to thrive, grow, and succeed as we continue our professional journeys,” ITE committee members worked together to overcome Chan said. virtual restrictions.

The Cal Poly chapter was the provisional winner of the 33rd annual PDC and PDC Cup holder.

The Cal Poly Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), a

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Green DAYS Algae research adapts and grows despite pandemic

“Give us water and sunshine and we’ll find plenty of things to do.”

— Tryg Lundquist

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lthough the coronavirus pandemic has limited activities at the Sustainable Utilities Research and Education Field Station for more than a year, environmental engineering professor Tryg Lundquist says research opportunities continue to flourish at the facility located on the edge of the City of San Luis Obispo wastewater treatment plant.

Lundquist said about half of the usual 50 students per quarter are currently doing research inside three on-campus algae labs and outside at the field station, which has the tiny green aquatic plants growing in 20 biological treatment tanks each holding 260 gallons of wastewater.

“Our numbers are down but, fortunately, we have a lot of lab space and we are adapting,” he said. “We are wearing masks at all times — even outdoors — and face shields when they have to work close together. Plus, everybody’s got their own lab coat and their own safety glasses, so none of the PPE is shared. Even with COVID, the work and project development continues!”

Lundquist said most of the current research projects are a continuation of ongoing studies involving nature-based water treatment practices and the development of algae biofuels. One current study, dubbed the “Phos Project,” examines how algae treats wastewater by removing excess phosphorus, an element that affects the oxygen levels in water.

▲ Cal Poly students Allie Ahern (environmental engineering), above, and Kai Nakahara (marine science), left, work at the Sustainable Utilities Research and Education Field Station located at the City of San Luis Obispo wastewater treatment plant.

Another project on the horizon is the creation of a public educational display for riders and walkers on the Bob Jones City to the Sea Bike Trail which borders the facility.

“I would say there is about 150 feet of trail in front of the station and we want to put up informational signs along the fence to let the public know that the City of San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly are participating in advancing water and energy research.”

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Cal Poly graduates help Bay Area company design and build at some of the most iconic West Coast sites

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s soon as the divers at Power Engineering Construction Co. slip beneath the ocean surface, they begin multi-tasking, performing skilled construction while battling currents, monitoring oxygen levels and struggling to see in low-visibility conditions.

“The ocean is not kind,” said Ken Lindberg (Civil, ’79), one of four co-owners of the company, which specializes in marine and civil projects. “It’s cold, and it’s a tough environment.”

The Pacifica native knows about that first-hand, having been a diver for decades.

“My dad put a tank on me when I was 11, and I probably weighed all of 70 pounds,” he said.

Lindberg’s underwater experience was crucial to the success of Power, which he co-founded in 1986. Since

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then, the company has significantly invested in heavy equipment, which allows it to perform a wide variety of work, in and out of the water.

“We don’t limit ourselves to a certain type of project,” said Brian Shalk, a project manager and 2010 Cal Poly alumnus. “We really feel like we can build anything. One day you can be working on a beach restoration project, and the next day you can be working on structural repairs for a pipeline 60 feet under water.”

When the Alameda company was launched by Lindberg, Brian Stitt and Danny Reynolds, work typically came from clients with complex projects others wouldn’t consider.

Many projects entailed work in surf zones, featuring rip tides and breaking waves.

In company photos, Lindberg can be seen diving for some of those projects, using his water and engineering experience to the company’s advantage.

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Power Engineering is working with the Water Emergency Transportation Authority to expand and improve facilities at the Downtown San Francisco Ferry Terminal.

“Not everyone wants to get beat up by the water,” he said.

“But robots can’t do everything down there.”

In the early years, the company amassed a growing list of impressive projects, including a seismic upgrade to San Francisco’s Pier 1, the construction of four cofferdams at the Veterans Bridge in Sacramento and various repairs to Pacifica’s seawalls, bridges and piers after it was damaged

by El Nino storms in 1998.

After joining the Pile Driver’s Union in 1997, the company aggressively pursued larger projects and began investing in its own future. The biggest investment was the construction of two huge barges in 2012 and 2018 — the 90-ton derrick barge, DB Alameda, and the 250-ton crane barge, DB Pacific, the biggest of its kind in the West. The massive tools, which are delivered to sites via tugboats, greatly expanded the scale of projects the company could tackle.

“We can drive whatever we need,” Lindberg said. “We always had to subcontract that portion of the work.”

The floating cranes are custom-made for the company’s line of work, Shalk said, including pile driving and heavy lifting.

“Having this special equipment gives us the access and opportunity to pursue projects that others cannot,” he said.

Today, the company’s 75 employees (three of the four current co-owners are Cal Poly graduates) include both engineers and construction workers, allowing them to both design and build.

“What’s unique about Power is that we do a lot of the work ourselves,” said Lauren Rodriguez, a 2020 Cal Poly graduate, who began working as a project engineer last August.

Many of the company’s projects have taken place in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, a marine engineering coup completed 84 years ago.

“It’s mind-blowing how they built that,” Rodriguez said. “I think about it all the time.”

A resident of the city’s Russian Hill neighborhood, she has plenty of opportunities to see the city’s famous bridges, visiting Power projects in the city. Recently, she spoke from one of those job sites – the Ferry Building, where the company was performing under-deck repairs.

▲ Ken Lindberg (civil engineering, ’79) co-founded Power Engineering Construction Co. Three of the company’s four co-owners are Cal Poly graduates.

“I never thought I’d be a city person,” said Rodriguez, a Palm Springs native, who landed the job through the Heavy Civil Career Fair at Cal Poly. “It’s so interesting to be in such an iconic place.”

While safety and cost effectiveness are always major considerations, working on projects in an internationally known tourist destination has added responsibilities.

“Not only does it have to function well, but it also has to look good,” Lindberg said.

Anyone traveling the Bay Bridge into the city will see the ferry terminal, located next to the historic Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. Power used its two barges and a slew of other equipment for a highly visible terminal expansion.

In addition to aesthetics, the company also has to consider protecting nearby structures, like the Ferry Building, which was completed in 1898.

“If a historic building is adjacent to a project, we may install seismic and settlement instrumentation to monitor the building during disruptive construction activities,” Shalk said. “This gives peace of mind to us, our clients, and any onlookers.”

With projects involving divers, massive equipment and iconic locations, the company’s work provides plenty of highlight reel action. And it’s no surprise that employees like Lindberg, Rodriguez and Shalk all enjoy water sports.

Shalk was even certified to dive – a company perk.

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Seeking solutions

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hen an octopus was found in a flooded Miami parking garage four years ago, it was one of many ongoing signs that rising sea levels have impacted Sofia Barale’s home community in troubling — and at times bizarre — ways.

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New Partners Scholars Program pairs freshmen with faculty on relevant research projects

Florida flooding, the Key Biscayne native was eager to learn more.

“It makes me feel informed and a bit scared, honestly,” she said. “Studying how sea level rise is affecting my community, why it may be happening and experiencing it myself is affecting how I think about where I live.”

Similar to the College of Engineering’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program, the new Partners Scholars program pairs

Partners Scholars Participants

freshmen Civil and Environmental Engineering students with faculty research projects. This year, 13 students received a $500 stipend to work directly with faculty members that are addressing real-world issues.

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Environmental engineering professor Amro El Badawy works with civil engineering student Adam Monroe on conducting undergraduate research using nanoparticles to detect microbes in drinking water.

Funded by the Industrial Partnership Program, Partners Scholars lasts a quarter, though students can continue to work with the faculty once the ten weeks has concluded.

“They get to interact with our faculty, and it gives them a taste of research and problem solving,” said Department Chair Charles Chadwell.

Barale worked with Stefan Talke, who has spent years studying how human alterations — including dredging and the construction of jetties and piers — have contributed to tidal changes that sometimes cause “nuisance flooding.” Barale’s roles included digitizing old bathymetric maps of Miami Harbor.

“The maps show that the approach to the harbor of Miami is completely different today than it was around 1900,” said Talke, an associate professor, who has analyzed tidal changes dating back to the 1820s. “Back then, one took a circuitous route around the barrier islands, through shifting sands. Today, there is a giant 15-meter channel cut directly through the barrier island.”

While both of Talke’s Partners projects involve tidal research, Amro El Badawy’s two projects also involve water — but in a different way. His research seeks to support ongoing efforts to diversify water resources and to develop a cost-effective sensor that would detect pathogens in water.

For these projects, students reviewed existing literature, developed spreadsheets to track information and conducted lab work.

“They learned technical skills — for example, operating laboratory equipment, using wet chemistry techniques to manufacture nanomaterials or reverse osmosis membranes, analyzing information from the literature — as well as non-technical skills, including critical thinking, collaboration and independence,” said El Badawy, an assistant professor. “They recognized that we do not always obtain the desirable results from a research experiment. However, we learn from the failed experiments to improve the outcomes of the next trials.”

Thirteen students and six faculty members participated in the first Partners Scholars projects.

They include: Gurtaj Khera Anubhav Dawadi Adam Monroe Grant Robinson Sofia Barale Philip Le Thomas Burt Abbie Wong Steven Sturkie Tong Hui Goh

Ryan Young Trainor William Francis Killmond Jessica Mcarthur Faculty: Amro El Badawy Stefan Talke Hani Alzraiee Shams Tanvir Long Wang Anurag Pande

Both projects seek to expand drinking water availability.

“I was interested in this project with Dr. El Badawy because I felt the project had a high potential for impact on the world with the importance of finding clean water sources,” said Grant Robinson, a student who assisted El Badawy. “The Partners Scholars program interested me because it was an opportunity to do something beyond classes during my time at Cal Poly.”

Like Robinson, Barale picked up technical skills, learning about new software programs and how to use them to analyze data.

“In addition, I learned how to look at a situation in different ways and how there could be multiple factors that cause an event like rising sea levels to happen,” she said.

While the experience gives students a nice resume boost, it also helps the faculty conduct important work. Talke’s students performed important information gathering that helps test hypotheses and learn more about nature and long-term changes.

“It takes some grit to stick with some of these tasks, which are clearly within the 99-percent perspiration part of the equation,” Talke said. “However, in the end we hope to have gained new insights into how flood risk in bays and estuaries is changing with sea-level rise.

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“This opens up a whole new avenue of not just bringing in our industry partners, but also excellent instructional collaborators from around the globe in support of student success.”

— Charles Chadwell

Trophy Room Transformed Department’s long-time showcase to be both a high-tech classroom and an industry meeting room

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he Trophy Room, long used as the department’s showcase for its many club victories, is about to become one of the most high-tech rooms on campus.

Funded with money from the Platinum Partners (see side story), the Partners Distance Learning Lab will serve both as a place for industry to virtually connect with students and a high-tech classroom, complete with digital whiteboards, a surround sound audio system and noisecancelling microphones.

Alumni will remember the room as a landing spot for past concrete canoes and scores of trophies — hence the name Trophy Room. But even before COVID-19 created a greater demand for virtual interactions, Department Chair Charles Chadwell was working to transform the

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room into a place where industry members from major markets could connect with prospective employees.

“The thought was that rather than the having the companies make the trek here to give a one-hour talk to a club or our students, it would be great to be able to beam them in using Zoom and have them be able to give a presentation to a group of students in an environment that’s very interactive,” Chadwell said.

When campus was shut down due to county-wide sheltering orders in March of 2020, another potential purpose came to mind.

“Then it became, wow, this is actually the perfect room for a digital, remote learning environment,” Chadwell said.

With a facilitator and teacher’s aide in the classroom, remote lecturers would have access to multiple screens and touch-screen technology that will greatly enhance virtual teaching. The room itself has a capacity for roughly 80 people.

“This opens up a whole new avenue of not just bringing in our industry partners, but also excellent instructional collaborators from around the globe in support of student success,” Chadwell said.

A similar room currently exists in the School of Education.

Currently, the design phase has been completed for the $150,000 room, and equipment is being delivered so the room can be ready this spring. n ▲

The department’s Trophy Room is being renovated and converted to a high-tech classroom and meeting room. At left, environmental engineering professor Tryg Lundlquist works under one of the new projectors in the classroom.

Partnership Program Continues to Grow, Benefitting Students

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hile the economy has experienced setbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Industrial Partnership Program has continued to grow, benefitting student clubs and facilitating key industry connections.

The program lost one partner during the pandemic but gained four. That reflects the appeal of both Cal Poly students and the market for jobs in the industry, said Department Chair Charles Chadwell.

“The need for infrastructure and growth in California doesn’t stop just because of the pandemic,” he said. “The demand on engineers is still there. And partners realize the strength of our Day One Ready engineers.”

The Partners Program, Chadwell added, supports that Day One readiness through systemic lab upgrades.

Chadwell revitalized the “Partners realize partnership program when he became chair. Partner the strength of our companies that join choose Day One Ready between one of four commitment levels (bronze, engineers.” silver, gold and platinum), with — Charles Chadwell support ranging from $250 a year to $5,000. For partners, membership builds their brand on campus and opens recruitment avenues.

For students, the IPP funds a host of items, including competitions; conferences; projects; Certificate of Excellence student awards; startup funding for an Environmental fee-forservice learning lab; and the annual Partners dinner (returning soon), where partners connect with college and department scholarship award recipients.

The IPP has recently provided funding for the Partners Scholars program (see story, Page 10), the Partners Distance Learning Lab, graduation gifts and Professor Tryg Lundquist’s research using algae to treat wastewater (see story, Page 6), which has involved several students.

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New Faculty

Shams Tanvir and Long Wang add research skills while encouraging student participation

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ncouraging students to assist them in research, the department’s newest faculty members have backgrounds in the area of sustainable mobility and the intersection of structural engineering, material science and data analytics.

Shams Tanvir joined the Transportation Engineering team, while Long Wang joined the Structural Engineering team, both as assistant professors.

Tanvir’s research, which focuses on sustainable mobility, explores the carbon footprint of emerging transportation technology.

“As the number one polluter in the U.S., transportation plays a very vital role in climate change,” he said.

His research explores possible mitigating factors, including selfdriving technology, electric cars, and shared mobility options — such as Uber and Lyft — as possible efforts to decrease pollution. His interests encouraged him to come to California, because the state is a leader in sustainable mobility and technology.

Tanvir earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his Ph.D. in civil engineering, with a focus on transportation systems engineering, from North Carolina State University. He finished his postdoc fellowship at the University of California Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology.

Wang is interested in developing multifunctional smart materials, such as nanomaterials and polymers, that can be integrated with structural systems for simultaneously bearing loads, actuating and monitoring structural performance.

Like Tanvir, he offers students valuable experience as research assistants.

Long Wang

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Shams Tanvir

and Environmental Engineering Department,” he said.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in port, waterway and coastal engineering from Dalian University of Technology in China, his master’s in civil engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California Davis and his doctorate at the University of California San Diego, where he also completed his postdoctoral fellowship. n

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CE/ENVE student advisory board engages students for 3rd year

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he CE/ENVE Student Advisory Board hopes to get students engaged with department opportunities soon after they become Cal Poly students while promoting events like Engineering Week, Open House and Academic Day.

more resources for students.”

Now in its third year, the board, a consortium of various club representatives, also shares student concerns and needs while collaborating with the department on events and initiatives.

The current board is comprised of 15 representatives from the following groups: CalGeo, CE Transfer Students, Chi Epsilon (XE), Concrete Canoe, Engineers Without Borders (EWB), Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), ENVE Transfer Students, GeoWall, Graduate Students, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), RainWorks, Steel Bridge, Society of Civil Engineers (SCE), and Society of Environmental Engineers (SENVE).

“Our board meets regularly all-year with the department to discuss various department businesses and bring up concerns of the students to create solutions,” said Meagan Chan, who heads the board. “Over the year, we have discussed topics like department fundraising and providing

Recently, Chan said, the collaboration between the board and department has experimented with methods to help students feel more engaged and represented within the department.

That has included promoting early exposure to opportunities within the department.

Meagan Chan

“During the 2020 – 2021 academic year, the board had successfully organized, hosted, and represented the department at various events, such as Academic Day, Open House, and the quarterly Open Discussion Forums,” she said. “Additionally, we hosted a series of events for Engineer’s Week.” n

future of Engineering discussed at first summit

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he future of civil and environmental engineering, graduate school and virtual networking were some of the topics covered in the department’s first Emerging Leaders in Engineering Summit, held in October.

The virtual event, which included speakers, plenary talks and panel discussions, was offered free for students and alumni. Meanwhile, Zoom recordings from the summit can currently be viewed online.

The keynote speaker was Jim O’Brien, a West Point graduate, who teaches at George Mason

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University and works at the ASCE Foundation, which support students in engineering.

including non-traditional engineers, engineering ethics and graduate school.

O’Brien discussed strategies for leadership in engineering. Addressing the challenges in the world, O’Brien’s topics included the value of diversity, succeeding through failure and change.

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“We have to get ourselves into a position where we’re ready to change as change is happening,” he said.

With panelists from industry and moderators that included faculty and students, sessions touched upon those topics and more,

“We have to get ourselves into a position where we’re ready to change as change is happening.”

— Jim O’Brien, keynote speaker

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