Weekly News for CCE STUDENTS / STAFF / FACULTY
April 2009 - Week 4

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CALENDAR | SEMINARS | ANNOUNCEMENTS | ADVISING | STUDENT CHAPTERS | INTERVIEWS

SCHOLARSHIPS (updated daily) | JOBS / INTERNSHIP (updated daily)

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CALENDAR
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APRIL 28-30 – Designing Streets for Bicyclists and Pedestrians, a traffic safety workshop. LaSells Stewart Center.

APRIL 28 – COE Ambassador Open House. Learn about paid COE student positions. 141 Batchellor Hall, 11-12am. More details here. . .

APRIL 29, Thursday –Hot Dog Lunch for all our CCE students. Kearney Hall Atrium, 11-1pm.

APRIL 29, Wednesday – Spring Career Fair, 11-4pm, Alumni Center. List of agencies attending. . .

MAY 1-3 – MOMS WEEKEND

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SEMINARS
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APRIL 27, Monday – “Performance Monitoring and Condition Assessment of Civil Infrastructure,” Geotech Faculty Candidate presentation by Kerop Janoyan, Associate Professor, Clarkson University. 202 Kearney Hall, 1:30 pm. Read abstract here. . .

APRIL 28, Tuesday – “Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Ponding Load Effects,” thesis defense, presented by Duncan Stark for a Masters of Science degree. 320 Owen Hall, 3:00 pm. Advisor: Prof. Chris Higgins.

APRIL 29, Wednesday - CCE Student Seminars, 205 Kearney Hall, 5pm. Read abstracts here. . .

• “Abrasion-Resistant Concrete Mix Designs for Pre-stressed Bridge Deck Panels,” presented by Ms. Shweta Keshari (Construction)

• "Full-Scale Laboratory Tests on Highway Bridge Girder Anchorages under Hurricane Loading," presented by Ms. Jora Lehrman (Structures)

• "Experimental Observation and Numerical Simulations of Wave Impact Forces on Recurved Parapets Mounted Above a Vertical Wall,” presented by Mr. David Newborn (Coastal & Ocean)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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OSU’s Team of Construction Volunteers – Six of our CCE students contributed both time and money towards a spring break to remember!  Read more (pdf). . .

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 IN THE NEWS
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Kavanaugh Building a Better World (Corvallis Gazette Times)
Senior walk-on wide receiver Taylor Kavanaugh is competing to be a backup in the fall, and trying to remain the punt returner with open auditions going on. He finishes his construction engineering degree at the end of the spring term and will only need to take a few classes to remain eligible in the fall. Then it’s off into the real world, but he needed real-world experience. And it found him.

Engineers Leave Classroom for Volunteer Construction Work (OSU Barometer)
OSU is breaking ground with a new student organization, the OSU Team of Construction Volunteers.

Powered by Orange (pdf)
Congratulations to Erika McQuillen who was featured in the Portland Business Journal as an outstanding OSU June graduate.

(l to r:) Iqbal Sarip (CEM senior) and Shweta Keshari (CEM grad student) cast high-performance concrete mixture test specimens in the alley between Owen and Kearney Halls for Prof. Todd Scholz's ODOT project titled, “Abrasion-Resistant Concrete Mix Designs for Prestressed Bridge Deck Panels,” i.e., developing a high performance concrete mixture that will be resistant to studded tire wear.

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$CHOLAR$HIP$
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• Howard Preston
• OCAPA
• OSU Alumni Association
• ACI Scholarship
• ASPE Columbia-Pacific
• Check it out. . .

Grad Students

• Howard Preston
• The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
• ACI Scholarship
• Check it out. . .

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ADVISING
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PHASE 1 PRIORITY REGISTRATION (Fall 2009) - is moving from Sunday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 20.

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STUDENT CHAPTERS
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INTERVIEWS
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