Sentences with phrase «civil engineering studies»

opportunity to use my truck and equipment to carry out duties of a field survey crew involved with civil engineering studies, topographic mapping, boundary mapping, mortgage surveys and utility as - built surveys to name a few.

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SS: I went to the University of Toronto to study civil engineering with the idea that I wanted to be an architect, but as I talked to more and more architects, they all warned me I shouldn't go into the field — there was no money in it.

The university also ranks among the top 50 universities in the world for linguistics, computer science and information systems, civil and structural engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, agriculture and forestry, psychology, chemistry, environmental studies, materials science, physics and astronomy, and other fields.

From A humble beginning in Jamaica, Lee - Chin came to Canada at 19 to study civil engineering at McMaster University.

The designer has no formal fashion education — he studied architecture and civil engineering — but used the skills he learned from his seamstress mother to obtain an internship at Fendi alongside Kanye West in 2006.

An academic high achiever, she studied civil engineering at Queen's but within a year knew it wouldn't be her career.

He studied civil engineering.

Officials in Glencoe have paid a civil engineering firm close to $ 70,000 to conduct a study of the village's water system — a task officials said is necessary before they can begin talking to residents about details of an estimated $ 35 million plan to replace the village's aging water plant.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

David Steward, professor of civil engineering, and Andrew Allen, civil engineering doctoral student, Manhattan, published those findings in the recent Agricultural Water Management study «Peak groundwater depletion in the High Plains Aquifer, projects from 1930 to 2110.»

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

Low - gradient channels have been studied by civil engineers for hundreds of years.»

In a new study, Colorado State University civil engineer Hussam Mahmoud offers an innovative approach to defining resilience that could help communities better prepare for hazards.

In addition to Hong and Sotiropoulos, other University of Minnesota researchers who were part of this study include civil engineering assistant professor Michele Guala, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Mostafa Toloui, civil engineering Ph.D. student Kevin Howard, mechanical engineering student Sean Riley, St. Anthony Falls Lab engineer James Tucker, and former post-doctoral researcher Leonardo Chamorro who is now at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

More recently, more than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Society of Civil Engineers.

He studied civil engineering at Princeton University and later picked up master's degrees in geography and geophysics from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

But soon he returned to Ohio, studied law, worked for the railroad (as a civil engineer) and became a professor of math and astronomy at Cincinnati College.

The telling hot spot recently observed in the southeast was discovered when the Indian River Lagoon on Florida's Atlantic coast, known for its algae blooms and blankets of dead fish, became much saltier after 2011, and study lead author Arnoldo Valle - Levinson, professor of civil and coastal engineering sciences in UF's College of Engineering, began to investigate the situation.

It took months, for instance, for researchers to obtain key blueprints, video footage, and samples from scrap steel beams, said W. Gene Corley, head of a government - sponsored study team organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Academically, a background in mathematics is helpful — although this may come from studying other subjects such as physics or civil engineering, not just pure mathematics.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

At the time of the study, Wolz was majoring in biology and civil and environmental engineering.

Apon, who led the study, said the fields that benefited the most were chemistry, civil engineering, physics and evolutionary biology.

After some investigation I found out that the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School) at the University of Pavia, in northern Italy, had the status of a Marie Curie Training Site in civil engineering, more specifically in the field of structural - earthquake engineering.

Even as Irma struck Florida, civil engineer Forrest Masters of the University of Florida in Gainesville, his students and collaborators traveled to the southern part of the state to study the intensity and variation in the hurricane's winds.

Statewide implementation of DDIs has been investigated mostly by MU civil engineers who recently published three studies analyzing the safety of these inventive designs.

Henry Brown, a civil research engineer at MU, was lead author on a third study that investigated common practices for diverting traffic while constructing and later maintaining geometric interchanges, which included DDIs.

«Previous studies have relied on reproducing the conditions of a stagnant plumbing system within a lab setting,» said co-author and civil and environmental engineering professor Wen - Tso Liu.

«Certainly it is a very good antimicrobial product,» says Zhiqiang Hu, a civil and environmental engineer at the University of Missouri — Columbia, who is studying the safety of silver nanoparticles.

«The research indicates that this is a source of methane that should not be ignored,» said Michael Celia, the Theodore Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

«We know where most active faults are in California, and we can smartly place seismic stations to optimize the network,» said Serdar Kuyuk, assistant professor of civil engineering at Sakarya University in Turkey, who conducted the California study while he was a post-doctoral fellow at University of California (UC), Berkeley.

The self - made entrepreneur insists that she had an interest in both the creative and the scientific throughout childhood, but it was her interest in construction and building design that persuaded her to study civil engineering at the University of Toronto.

Those findings are part of a recently published study by David Steward, professor of civil engineering, and colleagues at Kansas State University.

Steward conducted the study with Kansas State University's Michael Apley, professor of clinical sciences and an expert in cattle production; Stephen Welch, professor of agronomy, who helped with a statistics method called bootstrapping; Scott Staggenborg, adjunct professor in agronomy who studies agricultural production methods; Paul Bruss, a 2011 master's degree graduate in civil engineering; and Xiaoying Yang, a former postdoctoral research assistant who is now at Fudan University in China.

A couple of weeks after Katrina the Corps contracted the American Society of Civil Engineers to provide quality control for the [Corps's] study of the storm's aftermath.

Geiger and Salvo plan to collaborate with Aaron Packman, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, on studying urban metabolites in Chicago.

Civil engineers who study these problems report that lead can leach from several sources, including the home's interior plumbing, faucet fixtures and aging pipe solder.

Carlos Sun, an MU professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Yi Hou a doctoral student at Mizzou, co-authored the study.

Fischbeck, Michelle Tom, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering, and Chris Hendrickson, the Hamerschlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environcivil and environmental engineering, and Chris Hendrickson, the Hamerschlag University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environCivil and Environmental Engineering, studied the food supply chain to determine how the obesity epidemic in the U.S. is affecting the environment.

«My colleagues in India were showing off some of their rooftop solar installations, and I was blown away by how dirty the panels were,» said Michael Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and lead author of the study.

MIT civil and environmental engineer Elfatih Eltahir studied readings from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and found that — statistically at least — there is a seesaw effect in rainfall between the Amazon and the Congo river basins.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

About 18 percent of all human - made carbon dioxide emissions — or nearly 8.5 billion tons each year — comes from the burning of forests, savannahs and wood chips for fuel, said Mark Jacobson, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford and the study's main author.

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.

«There were a large number of wells being drilled,» study co-author and Cornell University civil and environmental engineering professor Anthony Ingraffea told Climate Central on Tuesday.

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