But I can't remember where that is OK, clear chat.
Let's see whether that worked.
I still see it but it's kind of faded out.
It connect it it went away last time so everything that we ended up you know talking I managed to get rid of that but I don't know maybe Shannon purpose.
I would say your job is to do kind of like the big global question so I don't think we need name.
And I think you know the kind of things we already covered that some of the things we make copper as we go along so they may not even be questions by the end of the video.
I think it might be better to just to avoid too many voices Christine maybe we could do this where.
You know you're kind of the traffic cop so you know if Eva post something about study abroad you can say OK well I'll say a little bit about study abroad and I'm going to turn it over to Paul lower or whatever just have like one person that's kind of the traffic cop for those big.
Do you want me to because II thought that you were going to be the traffic cop but I can do too but you're right one of us should I totally agree it's a great good idea?
Yeah I don't care who does it you know it's either way is fine I'm happy to do it.
I mean I think since you're starting off and ending it might just naturally make sense for you too but I'm also happy to do it if you if you don't want to be the traffic cop.
Yeah no that's fine I can do it if I say something like.
You know if if I turn it over to somebody and you think there's a better person you can chime in later and you know we're going to work.
Did you add something about the coronavirus that you wanted to or know Tim?
He has a very nice picture of the virus.
Is my background OK I had to move out of the dining room synsacrum's home today I felt bad making him stay put for a long period time so I'm in the study?
Yeah it's good lighting behind you.
Charlotte Kuhl
01:42:16 PM
Hello!
OK cool I don't have any lights on I think it's actually good not to have lights on it's interesting.
I'm over in 205 which is really boring but I don't know.
Yeah it's a little echoey.
That might that might already be doing that I moved.
So little echoey but I don't know where would be better I don't know if your office would be better or I really don't know I mean the whole building is not so perfect I know.
You could go to my office.
Let me try opening the door just see if that makes a difference.
So damn it's true either the oldest engineers are military engineers and then when will use their knowledge to kind of improve the health and welfare of the public they became civil engineers.
Eva McGovern
01:43:55 PM
Hello Charlotte!
But are we lost him I'm gonna have Jim don't leave me.
Which is 'cause it's going away anyway.
There's there's a constituent number one which is soc.
Or stakeholder number one? Should I say that?
Oh, I better get rid of my. Did you just hear that Dingle?
Alright, let me make sure that I closed out of email.
I'm going to close a lot of my screens. Maybe that maybe helps too.
So you didn't have to take like disable semantic and then put on Chrome and then enable it.
Oh dear, you know this is so much easier when we just talking together when I'm just talking to the UM screen. I just it's not natural at all. I feel really odd.
I mean honestly, it starts I I start feeling really sick as if it's I got motion sickness.
This is not good if I run offen throw.
That's all there is my bathroom. So if I rushed up into that room, you know where I went.
That's right, so you go up well, Christine disappeared.
I know it's so much easier because it's not recorded and you don't feel like it really matters and it's more you're conveying.
A little bit of excitement in you know caring and that comes across in person that doesn't necessarily come across.
I think they probably will be and maybe some of the questions are there's uhm I know at one point they were trying to invite parents too but I don't know if that was a possibility in the end but Shannon said we had 79 people signed up for a 72 I think maybe 72 which is a pretty good number.
No I don't think so I don't think so.
So let's hope it goes OK uhm Jeff showed the numbers today so I think accepted it for civil I didn't start I didn't really look at environmental but except if a civil or deposits for several or a little down but deposits for civil intended or 130%.
Which is a lot in a little bit worrying?
Means all these people that didn't get accepted off the back.
A minute or a minute and a half or something like that I think that's a good idea and you can say you know I'm just going to give you a couple of minutes to or a minute and a half before I get started.
And and feel free like if I screw something up or something just take over please.
How's your concern to me today?
I said how's your concern today is not such a nice view outside.
Like the wind aren't you.
While waiting for it's not too windy yet.
Oh I'm right on the Lake and it's coming in something terrible.
Oh you're on the Lake so you're not I thought you lived on Parkside.
I did I bought a house on the Lake I live out in the sticks now.
How old are you how lovely that's pretty nice?
Yeah I must be pretty wild.
Yeah yeah yeah uhm so it looks good who do you have coming in looks like everybody's here.
We have power in Charlotte coming in an Avis going and Jane and a birthday off screen.
Perfect perfect perfect great.
OK so I'm gonna get out of broadcast video because I don't want to use any of your bandwidth OK you look great.
Would be wild on the Lake today?
Yeah I'm kind of nervous about the wind but we'll see.
Well the it's so high UM on Saturday I went for a really long walk along the allocate Creek.
And no thana Wanda Creek it's incredibly high there and then you know back along on wander along the Niagara River it's higher than I've ever seen it already so now with the wind.
Some point I'm going to stay on the ground story in case a big tree limb.
Yeah well you better not stay too late so you should go home and.
Is that Paolo that just came in I saw somebody else's participant number 7?
How can you tell you want participants?
Well he's got a while to come in.
I just wanted to test my audio can you guys hear me.
Bacon with Shannon talking earlier.
OK I wasn't able to see or hear anyone else besides uhm.
Doctor human and doctor Jensen so I'm not sure if.
Maybe maybe she has a special way of coming in and out.
I'll hop off my video then until I'm introduced.
Somebody is not sure whether they want to come or not.
Last time I got dressed up this time I'm kinda wearing my pajamas underneath another reason to unclick broadcast video if I have to run off.
I was in that shares an associate Deans meeting today and dumb.
I can't remember who it was but definitely had that Plaid pajama pants on so when they got up.
Oh look at that there's that chat from Friday when it says Christine human I can't get back in.
I'm still 5 minutes alright Jim you have any jokes.
Oh Sir might enter online teaching.
Why did they go on strike?
Right but it's so expensive to live in California real living wage there is significantly more than a living wage here.
Alright let's see what's happening here.
Paolo Bourdeau
01:57:21 PM
Hello!
Oh Palo how there he is high Palo.
Hey Paula doing do you pronounce your last night.
Uhm, I realized that I opened this on fire Fox, so I'm going to switch to a Chrome, um, real quick.
There was some sort of echo there did you hear that.
Yeah you think will have to just play it by ear I mean I guess if it's bad you're the you know maybe we should all mute hours so even when we're on for questions we.
Mute hours in less you ask us a question.
Charlotte Kuhl
01:59:13 PM
Yes it does
I'll ask that so either Charlotte Paolo Jane does that sound fine with Gemini talking.
Eva McGovern
01:59:14 PM
Yes
Jane Sinclair
01:59:14 PM
Yes that work
I guess people start coming in soon.
Oh the sounds better now too.
Eva McGovern
02:00:13 PM
what about Charlotte?
Billy Grippi
02:00:18 PM
hello
Eva McGovern
02:00:20 PM
should she not test her camera?
Kenyon DePuy
02:00:42 PM
Good afternoon
Dylan Salica
02:00:44 PM
Good afternoon!
James Armstrong
02:00:48 PM
Hello
Emma Colangelo
02:00:49 PM
Hiii
Michael Savage
02:00:49 PM
Hello
Shalev Grunschlag
02:00:51 PM
Good afternoon
Bowen Cheng
02:00:54 PM
Hello!
Christine Human
02:00:57 PM
hello everyone
Bubba Rustowicz
02:01:00 PM
Hello!
Michael Mcgurk
02:01:06 PM
hello
Maria Vitellas
02:01:07 PM
hi!
Rachel Williams
02:01:10 PM
Hey everyone!
Melissa Chan
02:01:11 PM
Hi!
Chase Perkins
02:01:11 PM
Hello!!
Julie Myers
02:01:13 PM
Hi!
James D'Ulisse
02:01:22 PM
Hello, hope you all are doing well!
Renaud Dago
02:01:31 PM
Good afternoon Christine
Grace Patterson
02:01:32 PM
hi
Ben Cardamone
02:01:39 PM
hello
Robert O'Gara
02:01:40 PM
Hi
Jane Sinclair
02:02:44 PM
Hi everyone! This is Jane, and academic advisor who can answer questions
And Hello, I'm Christine Human. I'm the undergraduate studies directive for the Civil Engineering Program. I'll give you a really quick overview. I am civil engineer. That's lucky I got my bachelors from the University of Manchester. So I'm originally from England.
I got my masters and PhD from University of California Berkeley an I have a kind of nontraditional path into academics so I started off an industry I've worked in the UK and the US and actually also in Lebanon but that's another story but I've been at you be since 2003.
If you think about engineering most engineers started off as military engineers and then those engineers have started applying their engineering skills to improve the health and welfare of the public became civil engineers so civil engineering is a very old profession it's also very broad so you can basically think of it in terms of structural engineering so buildings geotechnical engineering so you have to build the buildings on something also slopes and dams come under geotechnical engineering?
Transportation engineering and in this picture is actually our little autonomous vehicle here at you be called Ali.
And then there's environmental and water resources engineering and finally of course old projects need to be constructed so construction management is another big area of civil engineering.
Eva McGovern
02:04:24 PM
Hello Everyone! This is Eva McGovern, I am the Academic Coordinator for Civil and Environmental Engineering at UB. I am here too to work alongside Jane.
Patrick Fallon
02:04:55 PM
Hello
Nikolas Blackton
02:05:34 PM
Hello
So a little bit on the curricula philosophy. Those of you that may be joined for the school of engineering and Applied Sciences presentation last week well know that the curriculum is structured so that in the beginning you start off with basic basic math and science, and that's pretty common between all the different engineering disciplines.
As you move through freshman year into sophomore year you're starting to add some engineering science classes and also starting to take some of your major classes but it's not really until the junior year where you're fully immersed in all the topics relative to your major there's also a lot of lab classes associated with junior year when you're exposed to all the different areas of your discipline then for senior year you start taking.
More of your electives design electives and also your capstone design class so Jim and I will tell you a little bit more about what that looks like for civil engineering and environmental engineering but the structure is really the same for all the engineering majors.
So this is head for civil engineering you start off with basic math and science so that would be your calc 123 the calculus series and differential equations in terms of science.
In civil engineering you take physics you take 2 classes in physics you take chemistry and you take geology.
Kyle Colburn
02:08:30 PM
Hi
Um moving on to into sophomore year you take some of these fundamental engineering science classes so once called statics like why things stay still why they don't fold down so looking at equilibrium of forces and then once you know that you Start learning more about material properties so you can start analyzing structures will they fail you know is can IT support the load I've applied to it will it deform too much.
With all that knowledge, you move into junior year, and that's where you take the structures, sequences A2 course sequence. In structures. There's a two course sequence in via technical engineering. You take course and transportation engineering, environmental water resources, so fluids and hydraulics so that junior year really provide you with the foundation and then hopefully not, hopefully, but you can if you want. As you move on to senior year specialized in one of those areas, or you can take your elective more broadly distributed across the different.
Areas, but you start as I said, senior year you take design classes, you take electives an you start your capstone design sequence so you really get the opportunity to take everything you've learned. And in the end applied to a real world problem.
Rj Green
02:09:40 PM
when it comes to internships and co-ops, what does UB offer students
James D'Ulisse
02:10:39 PM
When do you reccommend that I lock into a specific engineering major?
Yes, obviously you can't really see the details on the slides, but if you do, come check it out later. At home, these flow sheets are actually actually interactive, so you can see how the curriculum fits together what courses you have to take before other courses so you can sort of map the curriculum through the flow sheets.
So what I'm going to do now is going to tell you a story about how students can apply what they've learned in the classroom to a project and what I'm going to tell you about is the ERI seismic design competition.
Eva McGovern
02:11:13 PM
Roderick, we will address internships and co-ops after the Professors get through our slides
Jane Sinclair
02:11:14 PM
James, if you are undecided you will want to declare a major by at latest your junior year
ERI stands for earthquake Engineering Research Institute. So every year they they run a design competition in conjunction with their national conference.
Kyle Colburn
02:11:52 PM
If you have taken college level classes in high school, how do we know if they will transfer over?
So our students that you be a undertake this design competition through our student club, the American Society of civil engineers. So each year student supposed to problem, they have a building to design. They're told about the site conditions as architectural requirements. They have to consider the economic so it's all very well to build something. But can you build a economically Sosa structural cost and also there is if you think about this building as you know, maybe having apartments or retail in there. What's the usable space?
So all these things they have to consider.
So the picture is showing here is from the tower from 2016 and I don't know if you can see but right in the middle of the tower there's something called a soft story, so maybe you can see that there's not as many structural elements, so that means that that section of the building is weak in terms of earthquake resistance.
James Armstrong
02:12:20 PM
Does every engineer take the same courses for the first two years?
So how do you so this building right? This structure will actually be shipped to the competition. There will be putting on a shape table that simulates an earthquake and you want to see how it responds. So how do you make sure that the structure doesn't collapse and that week story?
Jane Sinclair
02:12:41 PM
Kyle, when you submit your orientation data form you will want to list which college courses you took and where. We will reach out to you to help figure out how this impacts your first semester registration
So what the students decided to do was add what we call dampers. So it damper is like a little mini shock absorber, something you have in the car or your bicycle to absorb energy.
Eva McGovern
02:13:10 PM
James, yes, for the most part they do. One slight exception would be for computer science engineering, I believe. Jane would know this better.
Kyle Colburn
02:13:11 PM
Thank you.
What's really interesting about these dampers is it's been a lot of research done by faculty at University of Buffalo in development of these dampers. An one of the companies that makes most of these dampers for the international market is Taylor devices that's also located in Buffalo so students get to work with faculty. Have expertise in this area. They get to go to Taylor devices for a site visit to really learn about the dampers and how they work enough.
So I'm just going to show you here. Here's an actual photo from a building in Mexico City and you can see in the middle there the the dampers which look very much like the dampers at the students used in their model building.
Jane Sinclair
02:13:49 PM
James, many are the same but each engineering program will have specific courses that are part of their program. CS and CEN majors start off differently with programming courses
Billy Grippi
02:13:55 PM
are their minors in architecture civil engineers can take?
So students will look at all the constraints for a particular year. They will design. They will construct as I said. Then they ship their structure to wherever the competition is. It's often on the West Coast. So Vancouver, San Diego, San Francisco, and then they get to test their structure and compare it to the response of structures submitted by universities from all over the country. So this is actually a picture, unfortunately.
We had a video but we can't play videos in this webinar, so I'm sorry, but it's from 2017 and the reason I'm moving from 2016 to 2017 is that one of the students were going to meet later. Paolo Bordeaux is now a senior, but 2017 was the first year that he participated in this competition, so he's been involved in this competition for all four years he's been at. You be.
So this particular year and you can see on the left the kind of earthquake motion that the building is exposed to this year the team came in tenth out of about 50 universities that participate from around the country.
Jane Sinclair
02:14:40 PM
William, yes, they do have a minor. It is one of the bigger minors so we don't tend to have many of major choose to do this.
Eva McGovern
02:14:42 PM
William, there is a minor in architecture that can be combined with civil engineering
So so the Fast forward to 2020 and the team was incredibly lucky in this year in that the competition was held in March.
So the conference was March the 2nd to the six, so they just got to compete before everything went on line. But they did exceptionally well at a huge team. I think we took 17 or sent 17 members to the competition in San Diego out of 51 schools who submitted towers, only 20 will left standing after the largest earthquake, and you be ended up placing 13th. So it's wonderful about this. Competition is not only you get to to design A construct that you obviously.
Learned a lot about project management about teamwork, about communication. The component of this is also a presentation, so developing a lot of those soft, soft skills that companies are looking for.
Billy Grippi
02:15:50 PM
perfect thank you!
So here is the last picture I thought I put this in, so this shows on the left the the model that the students developed off the structure and then you can see in the middle starting to construct it and then on the right hand side is the fully constructed tower with their rent architectural rendering. So it was unique about 2020 is that they are required to design around an existing building, so I'm not sure if you can really see, but at the bottom the building is actually L shaped and so that.
Posed its own challenges.
Dylan Salica
02:16:13 PM
what kind of opportunities are available for Transportation engineering within the UB transportation center?
Patrick Fallon
02:16:33 PM
Does declaring your major earlier than junior level year open up co-op and internship opportunities earlier?
Renaud Dago
02:16:38 PM
Hi Jane, i got accepted to UB already for the fall semester
Renaud Dago
02:17:53 PM
Hi Jane, i got accepted to UB already for the fall semester as transfer student. Is it possible to take some classes online during the summer?
Jane Sinclair
02:18:29 PM
Patrick, students tend to do co ops and internships in their junior/senior year. There are some earlier opportunities that our Career Services department will often post on our listservs.
Eva McGovern
02:19:47 PM
Dylan, we have a very good transportation engineering program that is currently growing thanks to a recent gift that helped establish our Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. As an undergraduate student, you have the opportunity to select your technical elective courses in your senior year in such way that they focus on transportation engineering. You can also be matched with a transportation engineering faculty member for mentoring, and with their help gain research or internship experience.
So is Jim indicated we have many different student clubs so at the school level we probably have over 30 engineering student clubs so not all of them are listed here So what we put on this slide of those that are more related to civil or environmental engineering or are more diversity focused.
So our newest club within civil engineering is AGC which is the associated associated general contractors of America so they formed very recently and compliment very nicely are much more much larger and.
Uh founded many I mean long before I came to University student chapter of the American Society of civil engineers so it's a SCE that participates in all the student competitions we have the steel bridge we have concrete canoe and we also have the seismic building and I would say probably about 150 students from the civil engineering program are actively participating in a SCE.
Dylan Salica
02:21:14 PM
Ive already worked on some undergrad research so that sounds great! is there a dedicated path or minor specifically for transportation?
Some of the clubs are more environmentally focused Aaron waste Management Association is Jim already mentioned engineers for sustainable world and then the New York water environmental Association so those are all kind of focused towards civil environmental another one that we didn't list is engineers Without Borders which is also active at you be.
So then as I said this is the more diversity focused clubs again a very recent one is eces American Indian science and engineering society but we have this be national Society of black engineers Oh stem out in science technology engineering math they're very active chef Society of Hispanic professional engineers.
Cesar sassy I call them sometimes Association of Asian scientists and engineers and then sweet.
Along with sweetie which is the student club Society of women engineers we have a program called wise which is stopped by a professional staff member who does programming for women in science and women in science technology and math and that's a program that's joint between school of engineering and applied Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences.
So many many different engineering clouds but this would you be there's hundreds of clubs in total so the engineering clubs are part of what's called the engineering council and most of them are supported by student activity fees we also have additional funding at the school level to help send more students to competitions more students are conferences so that clubs are pretty well funded but there's also the international student club council so you can get involved in a lot of different clubs cultural clubs.
Eli LaVarnway
02:22:55 PM
What is the typical number of environmental engineers that graduate from ub each year?
Um and they put on a really huge event every every spring semester I think where all the different international clubs do dancing and food and celebrate their cultures so this also lot of Sports Club so if you want to play soccer or you want to play basketball or badminton if you wanted to go skiing there's always this most likely a club already in place if there isn't you can form your own so recently is student in the school of engineering started the fishing club.
Does he loves his passion was fishing he found enough students who also really love fishing and they formed the UV fishing club so if there isn't the club for you already you need to all you need to do is find a group of students with the same passion and and you can form your own club?
So just give you a little sort of update on how our student.
How the students fair in club competitions so I already told you that this year?
Seismic design team came in 13th which is phenomenal um I'll concrete canoe team uh does the way this competitions work you have a regional competition and national competition and in our region we have 2 incredibly accomplished teams from Ashley from Canada from Montreal they usually come first or second in national so it's very hard for us in the concrete canoe to actually get out of regionals.
Bubba Rustowicz
02:24:27 PM
Does Environmental Engineering generally offer opportunities/jobs in renewable energy after college? Or is it mainly dealing with water resources?
Eva McGovern
02:24:34 PM
Dylan, transportation engineering is sort of a sub-field within civil engineering. We don't have formally dedicated sub-fields in our B.S. degree (on the M.S. and Ph.D.-level we do) but students get to focus their choice of technical elective courses (4 in total in your senior year) on any given sub-area of their interest. In your case, all 4 courses could be chosen to focus on transportation engineering. Additionally, you could elect to do an internship with say, the Department of Transportatioin (DOT) to gain hands-on experience as well.
But the steel bridge typically we first overall in regionals and last year our team was fourth overall national so we have incredibly accomplished accomplished steel bridge team and of course they have been had been working endless hours getting ready for the 2020 competition which Alas has now been canceled.
In terms of a SCE last year our student chapter was recognized as a distinguished chapter in region one so they really are a phenomenal group very welcoming to freshman they love to have activities to kind of promote engineering at all levels and get everybody involved.
So I know there's always a question about placement and so for the last couple years at the University as a whole has run what they call the you be next survey and So what I'm going to show you here is just the results from 2019 so these were the students that graduated spring 2019 so we had in civil engineering 152 graduates.
Last spring or between fall and spring so the you mean next survey survey students 6 months after graduation and what they found when they surveyed the civil engineering students is that more than 95% of the students were either employed or in Graduate School or some of them actually both so some students elect to work and then maybe do Graduate School part time at the same time.
80% of our students remained in New York state some of the companies that are students were working for button an I actually can't pronounce logo I should pronounce it slow BGS Jim help me there is it languages.
Eva McGovern
02:27:41 PM
Sean, our program is mostly focused on water resources but I believe that renewable engineering is also an option. I will let Prof. Jensen answer this question.
Thanks National Grid national fuel uh we have a lot of students that both in turn but also have full time positions with the New York state Department of Transportation significant number of students that last you a place with the US army core of engineers.
Bubba Rustowicz
02:27:54 PM
Sounds good!
We always have a significant percentage of students that like to go into construction construction management so Kiwi Kiwi it is always a consistent employer as is Turner Construction.
If you look at the percentage of the civil engineering cohorts that go on to coat that goes on to Graduate School runs between 18 to 20% usually depends a little bit on the economy many of them stay you be because we have an incredibly strong graduate program but we have had a student last year went to UC Berkeley Columbia Johns Hopkins so graduating from with a bachelors degree from UB in civil engineering means you can pretty much go to Graduate School anyway you want?
Uh one of the questions is Austin the survey as uh Do you agree with the statement that you be as prepared than wealth or life after graduate after college an we had 71% strongly agreed or agreed which actually was significantly down from the year before which was 85% so I'm not really sure but last year is 71% strongly agreed or agreed.
Dylan Salica
02:29:15 PM
Thanks
Bowen Cheng
02:29:23 PM
For someone looking more into design and architecture, is there a minor students can take in structural engineering?
Jane Sinclair
02:31:54 PM
Bowen we don't have a structure engineering minor but we do have an architecture minor at UB. Students who are interested in structural engineering can also use their technical electives with this focus
Eva McGovern
02:32:06 PM
Bowen, if you are interested in design, we have excellent courses to prepare for this focus within civil engineering. You would focus your technical electives in structures, and could get hands-on experiences in our labs, or doing internships, co-ops, etc. You can minor in architecture, or perhaps elect to take a couple of graduate courses in structural engineering as an undergraduate student to gain more in-depth knowledge of design in structural engineering
Ben Cardamone
02:32:31 PM
Are there electives focused on AutoCAD
Bowen Cheng
02:32:45 PM
thank you!
Eva McGovern
02:33:10 PM
Many civil engineering students elect to minor in math as 4 courses are already required for our major, so adding a couple of extra math courses can land you in a math minor
Shalev Grunschlag
02:34:07 PM
Great to know!
Shalev Grunschlag
02:35:00 PM
Is there railway engineering?
Eva McGovern
02:35:26 PM
Ben, yes we have two courses focusing on AutoCAD: CIE 177 which is Intro to Civil Engineering CAD, we also have CIE 424 which is one of our technical electives on the senior-level: CIE 424 Computer-Aided Design in Civil Engineering
Ben Cardamone
02:35:39 PM
thank you
Seamus Rowan
02:35:44 PM
Is there a way to see the co-op’s available for UB
Eva McGovern
02:36:12 PM
we'll answer that in a minute
Christine Human
02:37:21 PM
Shalev, we do not have an elective in railway engineering.
Hello everyone hi I'm polo I'm a senior soon soon as professor Jensen stay dumb for all 4 years of my academic career I've been inactive AC member and as doctor human said I've been part of the seismic design team for all 4 years as well and I even had the chance to captain the team last year so we have any questions in terms of clubs I'm surely here to help you out I've also done undergraduate research since my sophomore year so if you have questions on that I can try my best to help you on that specifically I've looked into win.
Engineering research and the effects of hurricanes on buildings I've also studied abroad um my sophomore.
My sophomore winter session for a few weeks so if someone's told you that all engineering students do is stare at a book for 4 years they are wrong we actually get out and do awesome stuff so I went to Costa Rica for a few weeks an we explored the country looking at their sustainability efforts in terms of renewable energy agriculture efforts and also other society is wrapped around sustainability.
As an issue so if you have any questions in terms of research study abroad or student student clubs I'm all here for it.
Billy Grippi
02:38:30 PM
Do studetns who take part in internships and co-ops typically have to push back graduation date
Christine Human
02:39:19 PM
William, many of our students participate in internships over the summer, so this would not affect your graduation date.
Jane Sinclair
02:40:01 PM
William, students can do internships along with other classes and does not necessarily hold up graduation. Co-ops are typically done over the summer because the amount of time is greater. If a co op is done in a fall/spring it can push graduation back.
Celesta Blezy
02:40:34 PM
If I was to focus in transportation for civil engineering, would that mean that I can only get a job in transportation or would I still be able to get a job in a different sub field of civil engineering in the future?
Bubba Rustowicz
02:41:18 PM
If interested in renewable energy, do you feel it is necessary to get a dual degree in Environmental and Civil Engineering?
Eva McGovern
02:41:23 PM
William, not necessarily. Some of our junior or senior students take summer internships, so they stay on track. Students can also take an internship in the spring or fall, and get academic credit for their internships if it is approved prior to the start of the internship. Students are typically expected to work 45 hours for 1 credit, or 135 hours for a 3-credit internship which can fulfill a technical elective.
Daniella Kata
02:41:46 PM
Can you do a semester abroad without pushing back your graduation date?
Eva McGovern
02:42:31 PM
Yes you can, Prof. Human will explain
Jane Sinclair
02:42:41 PM
Daniella, yes it is possible, especially if you plan it well by working with the department and advisors
Alessia Craig
02:42:41 PM
Is there a way to get a dual degree in environmental and civil engineering?
No I mean I think you've covered it you this is same thing with civil engineering that we typically don't have students that will take a semester off and do a Co-op although it's not unheard of but it's harder to schedule that in with the curriculum but certainly students.
Owen Jin
02:43:23 PM
Who are classes taught by?
I think when we surveyed our seniors UM in the fall more than 60% of them had an internship the prior summer and if you look at students over their whole career at you be some students will have one technical internship over the summer some will have internships almost every summer and so it really isn't valuable we don't require it but of course we strongly recommend it because of your ability to kind of start applying what you learn in the classroom and as professor Jensen said then bringing back in.
That into your subsequent classes.
Eva McGovern
02:44:04 PM
Yes, it is possible to double-major. Prof. Jensen or Prof. Human will provide additional details about the benefits of perhaps checking into masters'-level education vs. double major
You might so I so yeah Paolo and Charlotte constantly talk about polo had a winter experience Charlotte had a summer experience I think actually Charlotte also did Costa Rica as well but certainly students can go for a semester abroad I think what's important to know if you want to do a full semester and we work with students all the time there's a student that's going to Spain student just came back from Cardiff is to plan it early so you want to.
Eva McGovern
02:44:43 PM
Owen, as Prof. Jensen mentioned, classes are taught by professors who are industry-leaders in their chosen fields.
Right from when you join us a freshman start thinking about what do I am I bringing in any credit which semester do I want to go in which semester is it best to go in and so just start planning around that so that you can take the classes you need in the sequence so that you can make it work so you certainly can make it work and we have students to do that as Jim Jensen Alana went to the Danish Technical University.
In civil engineering we have a jewel diploma program with come Istanbul Technical University so very well renowned University in Istanbul Turkey.
James Armstrong
02:45:07 PM
If I start in civil engineering and after two years I decide to change my degree to another engineering degree, would that be an easy transfer?
That makes it pretty easy for our students to spend a semester there now that hasn't been feasable recently because of the political situation but the students that we've had go to Turkey in prior years have had an absolutely amazing experience.
So that's another opportunity that hopefully will open up again soon and in fact I think the the travel restrictions now have been lifted in terms of politically I mean obviously not all of us study abroad trips at the moment are postponed but absolutely if you want to do it we just need to work with you early figure out where you want to go so that we can you know make sure you take the right classes.
Right and then you be as a whole has agreements with many many universities around the world so uhm you know some of them I have classes taught in English some of them don't so you might be restricted from some of them but there's definitely opportunities to go and study abroad for this semester.
Eva McGovern
02:46:23 PM
James, it should be pretty easy, especially between mechanical engineering and civil engineering. I think that switching to computer science engineering would be more challenging due to the structural differences between the first two years
Jane Sinclair
02:46:24 PM
James, it will depend on which engineering you switch to. For example it would not be too difficult to move to mechanical/aero but you would have more courses to catch up on if you switched to computer science or computer engineering.
Shalev Grunschlag
02:47:04 PM
Can you double major in civil and mechanical engineering?
Eva McGovern
02:47:19 PM
Prof. Jensen, did you answer yet a question about opportunities in renewable energy after college?
Yeah I actually really like the Masters and bachelors and Masters option because if it's going to take you 5 years to get a double major anyway you can take 5 years and get a masters and bachelors.
Eva McGovern
02:47:45 PM
Prof. Human we had a question about opportunities for transportation engineers
James Armstrong
02:47:51 PM
okay thank you
Eva McGovern
02:48:25 PM
we had questions about what type of research opportunities we have in general
So I think I've seen a question for me about transportation engineering.
Bubba Rustowicz
02:48:48 PM
Does Environmental Engineering have more field work compared to other types of engineering?
Billy Grippi
02:48:50 PM
how many classes do students typically take at once as freshman? how many of them are pathways?
Jane Sinclair
02:48:57 PM
Shalev, you can. There is not a great deal of overlap in the junior/senior level courses so it would delay your graduation. It might be worth thinking about advanced degrees or figuring out ways to address your interest in both areas in other ways (e.g. manufacturing minor?)
So back when I first joined you be which I said is 2003, so that's a while ago. Um, the opportunities for transportation engineering were pretty limited, but now we have.
Not a Department, but we have a strong focus within the Department on transportation, so you get your first exposure to transportation engineering as a junior and then if you like the area we have a lot. We have a couple of design electives and transportation engineering are the technical electives. We have a very strong graduate program either in transportation or we have something called the Institute of sustainable transportation and logistics, which is a Masters degree. That's joint between civil engineering.
Industrial engineering and management. So sort of recognizing the systems approach and that transportation is a very large system that crosses over many different disciplines, so we've also had talking bout double major students that do a double major in industrial engineering and civil engineering, and those are often students that are interested in transportation and we have one faculty member that has a joint appointment between civil engineering and industrial.
Alessia Craig
02:50:38 PM
What is the job outlook for environmental engineering?
Jane Sinclair
02:50:54 PM
William, all depending on AP, previous transfer credit most student take a math (calc 1), chemistry, UB seminar, pathway course or communication literacy which is about 15 credits
Eva McGovern
02:51:05 PM
William, typically 15-17 credits per semester
Oh, we do that in civil too.
Evan Rivera
02:51:17 PM
how large are the classes?
I was thinking I don't know whether we could maybe ask both of the students just a little bit about what you plan to do next year, and how kind of your degree is helped. You kind of further your career.
Eva McGovern
02:51:50 PM
Prof. Jensen, what makes environmental engineering better at Buffalo?
You know, Mike and I can start off for that. So next year I'll be coming back to University of Buffalo from my graduate degree in Masters in structural engineering and the past four years I've been doing research with one of the professors here, professor Tang Lou Ann. That's helped me prepare myself to see what kind of research I want to look into, what I want to do in my future. So I'll be doing a Masters here in doing research with him, continuing to do research with him. So that's how I prepared myself for next year, and I've also had internship opportunities.
Thanks to Professor is reaching out to companies for me and helping me finding opportunities, so I've had a lot of help preparing for the future in terms of professional experience as well as research experience.
Eva McGovern
02:52:34 PM
Evan, freshmen and sophomore classes are large, as all engineering students take the same foundation mathematics and engineering classes
I can speak to my own plans on as well I have been looking at work for the next year several years on my under undergraduate on career kind of set me up to go directly into Graduate School I've been very very research heavy especially my last 2 years of school and leadership role in my club and the few internships that I've had have really set me up for Graduate School.
In an effort to narrow down my interests I guess my research interests I'm I'm looking for work in the wastewater and public health sectors so I plan to do that at least for a couple years.
Eva McGovern
02:52:58 PM
once you move to your junior year, classes become much smaller as you only take them with your civil or environmental classmates
Eva McGovern
02:53:13 PM
Prof. Human, can you speak to class sizes and faculty advising?
Eva McGovern
02:54:08 PM
Prof. Human we had some questions about a minor in architecture also
Jane Sinclair
02:54:26 PM
Evan, it depends on the class. Some classes like calculus and chemistry may be bigger but there is typically smaller recitations and labs. Freshmen in their first semester are also registered in 'block' schedules which allows us to group our engineering students into the same schedule. This helps to create learning communities.
Sure UM II would agree with everything that you said uhm I think we are lucky that the environmental engineering program itself is so small and tight knit 'cause we get the big school feel and also this small school community kind of at the same time I can say personally that I'm I know every single person in my cohort by name.
We have AA private group chat that we all keep in touch with we help each other out with the job searches and talk about school events were planning on going to actually before the whole Cove in 19 situation we were actually planning a Department camping trip together between personally got cancelled but.
That's I think a really really special part of at least this Department that.
Eva McGovern
02:55:10 PM
Prof. Jensen, we had a question about research opportunities in the first year
That I really appreciate in the last 4 years uhm I would also say to that um the faculty are really stellar I.
Celesta Blezy
02:55:22 PM
Does focusing on one subfield of civil engineering in college prevent you from working in a different subfield later on in your career?
Owen Jin
02:55:22 PM
Do some students not get to take necessary classes due to space issues?
Michael Savage
02:55:32 PM
Are their opportunities for Civil Engineering students to minor in Computer Science?
I can't compare it to anything else because I haven't um gonna school anywhere else but I can say that every single UM faculty member in the engineering Department in the environment plunging Department specifically with my experience has been very willing to give professional advice class advice will make any time to meet with you to help you out.
They all know each other very well and now the students very well and keep up like a very personal relationship with the students which which is something that I think is very unique about Buffalo and at least the Department that were in an it also helps with finding undergraduate research as well because if you approach one of your professors and you say I want to do research I'm trying to get into XY Z internship or I want to look more into this job opportunity how can you help me the professor will.
Um reach out to who they know and then it seems to me that they'll do everything they can to help you out which I think is really special.
Bubba Rustowicz
02:56:21 PM
What types of minors would you recommend for Environmental Engineering students?
Yeah sorry sorry, sorry Jim. I question which talked about, you know class sizes in civil and things like that. So obviously you noted we have alot much larger program. We graduated 150 students last year and that varies between about 100 and 29150 in any given year. So obviously it's a slightly different experience.
Katie Hall
02:56:54 PM
How does the Environmental Engineering degree at UB deal with the issue of climate change?
Class sizes um could be as small as five or ten in a senior year elective, but typically in junior year it's going to be around 1:20 or half so that we often try and split the class into two so that you're not always in these bigger classes. But I thought maybe what would help, since I'm not a student's power kind of just talk about his experience a little bit. What does that really feel like when you are a student? I mean, because obviously you know Charlottes talk very eloquently about.
The importance of very small program and it really is phenomenal, but.
Jane Sinclair
02:57:25 PM
Owen, the departments will work with you to try get you into the classes that you need especially if they are prereqs. We will also work with you if you are not able to get into a class to make adjustment to your schedule so that you can remain on track.
I think Siri is pretty special too, so all that power, just, you know, speak about that from a student perspective.
Eva McGovern
02:57:38 PM
Prof. Human, Celesta is asking whether focusing on a subfield in civil engineering would prevent you from working later on in different subfields in your career
Definitely um, to be honest. In my freshman year I was overwhelmed with the huge classroom setting because freshman year you take, you take chemistry and calculus and those are like in huge classrooms with a lot of students. So you do feel overwhelmed at first. But then you be has this effort they do with some kind of small groups that they set up that you can study with other students, similar students, or even on their on campus living situations there is.
Eva McGovern
02:58:22 PM
Prof. Jensen, could you please address types of minors for environmental engineers
Special housings that they do where you are in a dorm with another fellow civil engineering soon or other engineering students and you end up having people that you can work through class with work through work with an kind of have that small school feeling that Charlotte was talking about. and I think I really appreciated that. My freshman year, meeting fellow students, either randomly because of how things are setup or on purpose because of a specific things that clubs are doing and that the school itself, the Department itself is doing for our students.
Jane Sinclair
02:58:34 PM
Michael, yes you can do a minor in Computer Science. Some of the courses will not overlap with your program but is still a possibility.
Eva McGovern
02:58:54 PM
Kathleen, Prof. Jensen will respond to your question about the issue of climate change and UB ENV ENG
Michael Savage
02:58:55 PM
Ok, thank you.
So I do feel that as time progresses through your years, you end up, um, you end up having smaller, smaller classrooms and having more individualized, conversational professors and help from students, NTS and Whatnot. So I do agree with the small school setting that you be has with.
Within that records that.
Katie Hall
02:59:04 PM
Thank you
And then old students. So we have an advising structure within the school of engineering and Applied Sciences that in the first 2 years you would be advised by the office at Jane works for. So it's a Central School of Engineering Advisement office because they are specialized in the early math and science and the general education requirements. But as soon as students become rising juniors they will be assigned to a faculty member within civil or in.
Environmental engineering and you meet with that advisor every semester. In fact, we force you to meet with that advisor every semester so that you can register for next semester classes so you start developing those relationships with faculty members.
Eva McGovern
03:01:36 PM
Professors, do some students not get to take necessary classes due to space issues question
Yeah, just to the students is that if we don't get to your specific question now and sometimes they very specific, we get a copy of the question. So we will certainly make sure that we reach out to you with answers. So don't be concerned that if you're on, your question isn't answered now that you won't get a response, so will make.
Every effort to make sure that we get back to you.
Oh yeah, I just saw. Sorry Jim I talked over.
Nikolas Blackton
03:02:02 PM
When will be advised to start the orientation process. I have submitted my mmunizsti
There was a question, do some students not take the necessary classes due to space issues? The answer to that is no. So at the low level you be has this thing called finishing for which is the universe is commitment to making sure that you can take the classes you need to graduate.
Eva McGovern
03:02:23 PM
another question: what would some companies look for in a job applicant - please answer for both programs
At the Department level, we know how many students are in our program, so we know how many seats we need in our classes. So we make sure that every student can take the classes they need. So absolutely not you won't be held up.
And graduation between because you couldn't take a required class.
Dylan Salica
03:03:28 PM
is there some equivalent commitment to transfer students?
Owen Jin
03:03:32 PM
Are there facilities at UB dedicated to student health and wellness?
Eva McGovern
03:03:45 PM
Prof. Human, does focusing on one subfield in your major limit you from working in another area of civil engineering?
Yeah, so I say, you know, reiterate what Jim said. Communication, communication, a lot of soft skills there. Certainly looking at soft skills.
Jane Sinclair
03:04:07 PM
Nikolas, the orientation office will reach out to you. They have been having to adjust how orientations are going to be delivered. You can reach out to them directly: Phone: (716) 645-6125 or (877) 434-0665
So they are looking a little bit of GPA, but they're also looking at other things you've done. You know they want to see students that are engaged that it taking initiative that looking to get involved in things outside of the classroom. Because in the end everybody will have the same courses when they graduate, so they're looking to see what other things you've done. So I think what is great about coming to you be as there's just so much opportunity so so many great vibrant student clubs study abroad.
We have our own experiential learning program with in engineering where you can learn to go into the machine shop or learn disorder or learn to use the 3D printing.
Nikolas Blackton
03:04:48 PM
When will we be notified of the orientation form for engineering in order to sign up for the classes? I had submitted my immunizations already. You don’t need to answer these here but if I can get an email, etc. Thank you.
Uh, what else do we have? We have these things called Inter murals where you can work on projects with students. One of the projects that was oriented toward civil engineering words that the students got together and designed a floating classroom on Lake LaSalle which is on campus and their clients, so to speak, was the daycare center.
So, uhm, we tried. We really do offer a lot of opportunities to get involved outside the classroom and take what you've learned and put it into practice.
Jane Sinclair
03:05:49 PM
Dylan, if you are coming from a SUNY institution and an engineering science program there is SUNY Seamless policy which helps to make sure there is alignment with the two school's programs.
Yes, I you be has a lot of job fairs specifically for engineering or just the The General Department or school. For me, uh, it. It makes me remember an experience I had with the company that I interned at last summer and for them during the interview that I had with them, they saw that on my resume that I was part of the seismic design team and the entire rest of the interview was me. Explain to them my decisions as a leader in the seismic design team.
And then just speaking with me, critiquing that, and it became a very uhm.
Normal conversation and it was great that they also like to see that they like to see these experiences and that they can point it out. And also we can. We can talk to each other about those experiences through in during the interview, so there's a lot that you can do it. You be that can use for those opportunities.
Yeah I would like to just kind of.
We rate went polo and doctor human said um the biggest.
Thing that you could do for your resume I think or thinking about your job outlook going forward would be to get involved outside of your classes as much as possible even if you're not comfortable with it or you don't have any interest to at least do it once just to try it.
Eva McGovern
03:07:10 PM
Owen, UB Health Services provides high-quality medical services for UB students (primary care, preventative treatment and specialty services). UB has a great mental health program as well through UB's Counseling Services
Having having a project on that you helped with or participated in or completed work that you did outside of your class work and something that shows how you applied your coursework and what you learned in your classes to a real world problem is super beneficial and in my experience job interviews just become an opportunity for you to brag about all the cool stuff you done at you be that's really.
Jane Sinclair
03:07:26 PM
Owen, yes there are a lo of resources decidated to student health and wellness. Everything from recreations activities, to counseling services, to student health services. https://www.buffalo.edu/studentlife/life-on-campus/health.html
What I've seen at them look for an also extracurriculars like clubs just getting involved with like you be events?
How to naturally develop those soft skills that they are also looking for?
Yeah, I think it's all about you know those stories right? And being able to tell the stories.
Eva McGovern
03:07:44 PM
Prof. Human could you answer the subfield question
Eva McGovern
03:08:14 PM
Prof. Jensen, research opportunities in the 1st year?
I would say the great thing about our program is it all students are exposed to all different areas in the junior year, so you always everybody is going to have some background in transportation or structures or geotechnical. I would say that if you're not sure which area you want to go in that your senior year should be quite broad, but if not I mean I think companies understand that it's not always that obvious in the beginning what.
Jane Sinclair
03:08:34 PM
Nikolas, here is a link to contact the orientation office.
Jane Sinclair
03:08:37 PM
https://www.buffalo.edu/studentlife/who-we-are/departments/orientation/email-orientation-transition-parent-programs.html
Eva McGovern
03:08:56 PM
What type of computer do you need/recommend?
Area you're going to really enjoy the most and I I just take my example when I graduated with my bachelors, I thought I was going to go into water and wastewater. Professor Jackson and I actually had funding to do a PhD and I woke up one morning like how you know what I just want to work for a bit. Maybe this isn't the right area for me. I'm not really sure and so I turned it down and I started working and I ended up getting a job in geotechnical engineering.
I really liked it, but I still wasn't sure so I switched companies because I was working for a geotechnical specialist so I started working for a bigger.
Nina Gomez
03:09:24 PM
Would you recommend using AP credits or retaking the classes?
Jane Sinclair
03:09:33 PM
Nina,
Engineering company moved between Department and ended up back into your technical, so I think there's a lot of opportunity to move. Uh, you certainly don't get pigeonholed just because you took, you know, four of your elective in one area and not the other. Uhm, so now I wouldn't worry about that. And the nice thing is you do have a grounding in all the different areas of civil engineering.
Jane Sinclair
03:09:56 PM
Nina, what AP were you thinking of specifically?
Nina Gomez
03:10:46 PM
Calc b/c, physics c
I think that's really personal.
Ben Cardamone
03:11:10 PM
Will AP credits from this year still count?
I I don't know the students may answer that better. I've seen quite a few students that you know will take AAB and so get credit for Calc one and go into Calc 2.
And that feel it seems like, Uh, a comfortable way of doing it. My son did that when he went to college. Other students will have a BBC.
Eva McGovern
03:11:30 PM
what type of computer that you would recommend?
And will get credit for Calc one and two. I think it's really personal in terms of how comfortable you feel with the material. Uhm, sometimes it's nice to kind of have an easier way into college, so maybe you take, you know if you've got both count one and two, you take Calc. One calc II is not going to stretch you too much, and so you can focus on just adjusting to being college, but it's it's really personally do have a great advisements stuff in the school of engineering and they will help you think through some of those decisions.
Eva McGovern
03:12:23 PM
typical academic calendar, how is it set up? how do internships and co-ops affect academic calendar?
Jane Sinclair
03:12:50 PM
Ben, AP is reviewed each year. With the changes to the AP test I expect that there will be changes in the articulations but do expect many will count.
I did see one question about computers, so typically is a school. We don't recommend computers, but I would say in civil engineering particular there's a lot of CAD software Ain other software that doesn't work so well on a Mac. So if you don't have a computer, I would say that maybe getting a PC if you're a civil engineer would be wise just because we know that.
Software work is more consistently. There are ways around that with a Mac, but I don't think things ever work quite as well as they do.
See so my personal, it's just my personal advice would be to get a PC. I don't know Paolo Charlotte, any thoughts?
I definitely agree with you, doctor human. A Windows PC is is the way to go for the current software that we're using for civil engineering like SAP 2000 CAD. Even currently in my capstone class, the professors recommend that you have a PC or windows or PC or windows laptop, or if you do have a Mac that you could partition the Mac too.
To have windows on that as well so it's just windows is best suited for the kind of software that we use.
But it can be done on Mac.
I think the problem with partitioning the Mac is you need a really big high power Mac to have the capacity to be able to petition it and still run the program. So that means you're buying the top of the line expensive Max to be able to do that. I don't know shall I saw you nodding there.
Yeah I uhm I definitely definitely agree on.
I I have a PC and it's gotten me totally.
I I've I've gone through my entire curriculum completely fine with it. I have several friends who have Max and who came in freshman year with the same computer and got all the way up to senior year with it. But especially with classes being online. Right now, they're all struggling to download the software that we need for a lot of our classes on. Yeah, partitioning a Mac is possible, but it just seems like a huge pain.
You have maybe we, maybe we've addressed most of them and so we can go back and check off line just to make sure.
Yeah, looks like Avis added questions.
Eva McGovern
03:16:25 PM
:)
Do you have anything else you want to add before we just kind of sign off, I think.
Ben Cardamone
03:16:38 PM
Ok thanks
Jane Sinclair
03:16:51 PM
Thank you all for participating!
James D'Ulisse
03:17:02 PM
Thank you all so much. Very helpful.
Eva McGovern
03:17:05 PM
Thank you for all the great questions!
Christine Human
03:17:13 PM
Thank you for participating!
Bubba Rustowicz
03:17:16 PM
Thank you!
Kenyon DePuy
03:17:20 PM
Thank you! Have a great day!
Yeah, thank you very much everybody. Thanks for spending the time.
Owen Jin
03:17:24 PM
Thank you
Katie Hall
03:17:26 PM
Thank you!
Nina Gomez
03:17:26 PM
Thank you!
Chase Perkins
03:17:27 PM
Thank you!!
Alessia Craig
03:17:29 PM
Thank you!
Ben Cardamone
03:17:35 PM
thank you
Josh Cardamone
03:17:44 PM
thank you
James Armstrong
03:17:47 PM
Thank you
Jane Sinclair
03:18:05 PM
Jim, I have an appointment so I will sign off.
Owen Jin
03:18:12 PM
How rigorous are environmental engineering classes? How can we maintain a GPA that companies desire?
Maddie Maietta
03:19:13 PM
How is the environmental engineering program compare to UAlbany's new Environmental and sustainable engineering program?
Eva McGovern
03:20:17 PM
Thank you, Prof. Jensen
Maddie Maietta
03:20:19 PM
Is there a focus on desalination in the environmental engineering program?
Maddie Maietta
03:20:54 PM
Ok, Thank you!
Eva McGovern
03:21:10 PM
Thank you!