Back-to-Black Departmental Social this Friday at 9pm

SEE will host the 5th annual Back-to-Black Social on Friday, October 1st from 9pm until midnight. Back-to-Black is a welcome back social for environmental engineering students, faculty, and staff. It is a potluck and cocktail party style social featuring music, food, drinks, and new friends. Semi-formal attire is requested. This event will be held at the Cottage Grove Community Clubhouse, located off of 13th Street, just south of Williston Road on the right (click here for a map). Guests are encouraged to bring appetizers, drinks, wine, etc.

SEE Officer's Meeting Thursday @ 6pm in NEB386; No General Meeting

There will be a planning meeting for SEE officers tomorrow, September 23rd, in NEB386 at 6pm. A general SEE meeting for this date has been canceled due to this week's career fair and other activities competing for our members' time. Although this meeting is for officers, any SEE member is welcome to join us to discuss upcoming SEE events and activities. Please continue to check www.ufsee.org and the SEE facebook group for upcoming SEE events if you are not participating in this meeting. SEE's next general meeting is planned for October 16th. Also, please don't forget to add the "Black to Black" departmental social to your calendar for October 1st. More information regarding this event is available in an earlier announcement.

Week In Review: EES Announcements

Here is a quick wrap up this week’s departmental announcements (events, scholarships, etc):

--UPCOMING SEE EVENTS--

1) SEE Adopt-A-Road Clean-up – Tomorrow at 9am

Join SEE tomorrow, September 18th for our first Adopt-A-Road clean-up of the semester. Our street is NE15th St (between NE 53rd Ave and NE 39th Ave). Gloves, vests, picks, and bags will be provided. Please e-mail me at president.ufsee@gmail.com if you would like to carpool to the site from Black Hall or have any questions.

2) Back to Black Social – Friday, October 1st

SEE will host the 5th annual Back to Black Social on Friday, October 1st from 9pm until midnight. Back to Black is a welcome back social for environmental engineering students, faculty, and staff. It is a potluck and cocktail party style social featuring music, food, drinks, wine, and new friends. Semi-formal attire is requested. This event will be held at the Cottage Grove Clubhouse, located off of 13th Street, just south of Williston Road on the right. Guests are encouraged to bring appetizers, drinks, wine, etc.

--OTHER RELEVENT EVENTS--

1) EES Department Seminar - Today @ 3pm

Topic: Export of solutes from watersheds: Stationarity and inequality from the Mississippi to the Kissimmee. Speaker: James W. Jawitz, Associate Professor, Environmental Hydrology, Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida. Hosted by: Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Fall 2010 Graduate Seminar Series.

2) Benton Engineering Council Homecoming Float – Ongoing until Friday, October 15th

The construction of the 2010 BEC Homecoming float is underway now. If you would like to participate in the construction of this float which will represent the College of Engineering in this year’s homecoming parade, e-mail BEC.homecoming@gmail.com or check-out the facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152841284739828.

3) UF 2010 Career Showcase Engineering Day – Tuesday, September 21st

Engineering Day 2010 will be from 12-9pm @ Reitz (2nd floor). This is a great way for students to network with companies before the Technical Day at Showcase. Company Recruiters will be conducting panel discussions, information, and networking sessions. This year, over 20 companies will be attending, including Schlumberger, Procter and Gamble, Siemens, Nielson, and Southern Company to name a few. There will be lots of free food and prizes, including an iPad giveaway!! Upload your resume and get more information at www.uf-eday.com

4) Intel Information Sessions – Tuesday, September 21st

Intel is hiring students for internships and full-time employment with a background in environmental engineering at the Bachelors, Masters, and PhD levels. They will have several information sessions on campus as a part of the Career Showcase. For more information, visit: www.intel.com/jobs/students.

5) SWE Evening with Industry – Wednesday, September 22nd

The Society of Women Engineers is hosting an “Evening with Industry”. It will take place from 5pm to 7pm, after the technical day of career fair in Ustler Hall (located between Murphree and the Student Rec Center. Evening with Industry allows engineering students to meet with recruiters they spoke with during career fair on a more personal level to network and attain an internship, co-op or profession. Bring a resume in case the recruiters ask you for them but there will be a resume CD that you can include your resume on. Food and refreshments provided. If you would like to submit your resume to be included on the CD or have any questions please send a pdf version of your resume or send questions to ewi.sweuf@gmail.com by Monday 9/20 by 5 pm.

6) UF Solar Decathlon Europe Presentation - Friday, September 24th @ 7pm

Laura Ettedgui, a recent UF graduate of architecture and civil engineering and a participant in the 2010 Solar Decathlon this summer, will be giving a short presentation of the University of Florida’s 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe experience at PechaKucha Night next Friday, Sept. 24 at Volta Coffee downtown, 7 pm. PechaKucha is a condensed presentation format, allowing a variety of creative types to present 20 slides with only 20 seconds per slide.

7) Gainesville Solar Tour – Sunday, October 3rd

The UF Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) will host the annual Gainesville Solar Tour on October 3rd from 12pm-2pm. This ASES sponsored tour will bring together more than 5,000 homes, schools and businesses – across the U.S. and locally – to showcase the solar and energy efficiency technologies that are being employed nationally. This year’s events will be hosted from the local green building supply store, Indigo. For more information, e-mail ases.uf@gmail.com or visit www.ufases.org.

--FELLOWSHIP & SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES--

1) EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study

For more information and application deadlines, see: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2011/2011_gro_undergrad.html.

2) Hertz Fellowship

Application Deadline: October 29, 2010. For more information, see: http://www.hertzfoundation.org.

3) Fulbright Nexus Program

The Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Program will bring
together a network of junior scholars, professionals and mid-career applied
researchers from the United States and other Western Hemisphere nations for
series of three seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange experience. Scholars
will spend up to one year engaged in collaborative thinking, analysis,
problem-solving and multi-disciplinary research in one of three inter-related
topics of regional significance: Science, Technology and Innovation,
Entrepreneurship and Sustainable energy. This program is not for undergraduates. For more information, visit: http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/.

4) The McNair Scholars Program at UF

This program is currently seeking applications from students desiring to pursue research here on the UF campus. The program is particularly interested in receiving applications from engineering students. Please see the eligibility requirements and deadlines for application to this program at http://undergrad.aa.ufl.edu/mcnair/application.html.

All for now… Have a great weekend!
Erin

Panel Discussion on Impact from BP Oil Spill Tonight

The impact of the BP oil spill on the region’s land and water resources will be the subject of an expert panel tonight at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service.

“The Impact to the Land and the Sea from the Gulf Oil Disaster” will take place at 7 p.m. in Pugh Hall’s Ocora and will feature three of the Sunshine State’s leading experts on coastal habitats, the Everglades, the economy and the Gulf of Mexico.

This discussion will also be streamed live online.

For more information, see: http://news.ufl.edu/2010/09/08/graham-center-hosts-panel-discussion-on-impact-from-bp-oil-spill/

Dr. Delfino Presents "Industry & Water" Seminar on Friday, 09/10/2010, at 3:00pm

Seminar Topic: INDUSTRY AND WATER
Presented by: Joseph J. Delfino, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida

Date: Friday, September 10, 2010
Location: 386 NEB
Reception at 2:45 pm; Seminar at 3:00 pm (50 Minutes)

This seminar is a part of the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences Fall 2010 Graduate Seminar Series.

Meeting Report

Thank you to the 22 people who attended the first SEE meeting of the fall semester! For those of you who were not able to make it to the meeting, a copy of the meeting presentation is available here.