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CEVE Graduate Seminar Series

Objectives
Attendance requirement
Presentation Requirement
Meeting and lunch with seminar speakers
Student involvement
Seminar Committee


Objectives

The Graduate Seminar (CEVE 601 fall and CEVE 602 spring) is a one-semester, one-credit course offered each semester.

    The objectives of seminar are:
  1. To broaden the horizon of our students and faculity in the general field of civil and environmental engineering
  2. To keep out students and faculty connected to the scientific community and well informed of emerging research areas.
  3. To strengthen the sense of community and promote intellectual exchange within the department

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Attendance requirement

All CEE graduate students are required to take the seminar course every semester while registered at Rice. P/F grades will be given based on attendance.

Students are allowed to miss 2 seminars without excuse, and can use up to 3 non-mandatory CEE seminars or seminars attended elsewhere, e.g. other departments or other universities, to substitute for mandatory seminars in the department. Students who want to substitute outside seminars for CEE mandatory seminars must submit a list of the substitute seminars in the last week of the semester including the date, time, title, and speaker name of all substitute seminars attended. Permission for absence can be given to students with legitimate excuses (e.g., medical reasons, presenting a paper at a conference or conducting research at an off-campus site). Requests for excused absence must be made before, NOT after, the absence whenever possible. A grade of F will be given to any student that fails meeting the above requirements. Makeup assignments can be taken to prevent an F grade.

Besides seminars that are part of the official seminar course, there may be specialty seminars that are of interest to specific research groups. Specialty seminars are not mandatory and will be announced specifically as “Specialty Seminar” to avoid confusion. An official seminar schedule, i.e., mandatory seminars, and a schedule for specialty seminars is maintained separately.

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Presentation Requirement

Student presentations are an important component of the seminar series. All graduate students graduating after May 2007 are required to present at least once in the seminar course as a graduate degree requirement. Students are strongly encouraged to present their research at various stages of their study.

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Meeting and lunch with seminar speakers

A meeting between students and the seminar speaker will be arranged at 30 min before the seminar. In addition, up to 3 students can sign up for lunch with the seminar speaker and faculty members. Interested students must sigh up for both the meeting and lunch. A sign up sheet will be put up on the schedules section of the announcement board next to 203 Ryon Lab one week before the seminar.

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Student involvement

Student involvement in planning and organizing the seminar series is strongly encouraged and highly appreciated. There will be a solicitation for seminar topics and speakers every semester. The solicited topics and speaker names will be used for planning of future seminars.

Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend the seminars and participate in the planning and organizing activities.

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Seminar Committee

The seminar committee currently consists of four faculty members: Drs. Dan Cohan, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Qilin Li and Herb Ward (chair), and one graduate student representative: Andrea Clements. Ms Clements and Dr. Dueñas-Osorio will be the respective student and faculty contact persons for any concerns related to the seminar course.









Last modified: 01/29/2007.








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