Dr. Andrei's Blog

Dear Department Chair : We are announcing a unique grant opportunity for your department’s faculty and students - EPA’s P3 - People, Prosperity and the Planet - Program. Through this design competition, student teams and their faculty advisors apply for $10,000 grants to design scientific, technical, and policy solutions to sustainability challenges in the developed or developing world. The challenge addressed by these projects can be in any of these areas: • energy, • built environment, • materials & chemicals, • agriculture, or • water. Past P3 teams have explored more efficient ways to produce biofuels, developed simple water treatment technologies for developing communities, produced a technology to measure real-time energy use in buildings, reduced hazardous substance use in laboratories through improved information and purchasing practices, designed and built an educational “learning barge” for the Elizabeth River, VA , and designed an innovative system for the bio

Plan to attend the first International Conference on Pavement Preservation (ICPP) , during the week of April 13-15, 2010 , in Newport Beach, CA at the Radisson Hotel . The ICPP will bring together researchers and experts working in the field of pavement preservation to exchange ideas and discuss critical issues and concerns. This will be a "don't-miss" event for anyone in the pavement preservation field. Click on the title for more detailed information about the conference.

This summer, several of us faculty met and discussed about the Vision, Mission and Educational Objectives of our Civil Engineering Department. It is always exciting to look back at the origins, to look for a future direction, to assess where we are and to envision where we would like to be: 10, 15, 20 years from now. And yes, we even went back to the meaning of the word ENGINEER ... which has its origins in the Latin word INGENIUM, meaning “innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention.” This is why in many foreign languages "engineer" starts with an "i", e.g.: ingeniero (Spanish), ingénieur (French), ingenieur (German) and the list goes on. So in our process of searching for a vision, we first rediscovered the meaning of the word engineer: INGENIOUS. How would you like to study Civil Ingenuity instead of Civil Engineering? The next step was to formulate a mission and educational objectives - the things that we would like you, our students,

CTS Cement Manufacturing Corporation, the leader in advanced cement technology, invites you to join our innovative team. We seek a Civil Engineer Professional with 2 to 5 years experience in design and/or construction of civil engineering structures. Professional Engineer (P.E.) designation desired. The successful candidate will work with our research group, developing applications for our Rapid Set® Cement and KSC™ Cement in civil engineering structures, responding to technical inquiries, and assisting in the design and construction phases of projects. This position is based in Cypress, California, and involves some travel. CTS Cement is an employee-owned company. Visit www.ctscement.com for information about our company and products. Send resume, references, and salary history and requirements to bmccormick@ctscement.com. CTS Cement Manufacturing Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer