Gerardo Tueme Mendoza
David L. Ernst
ENGR 1201
1 September 2015
Engineering Kickoff Activity
American Society of Civil Engineers
The ASCE is an engineering society with the purpose of motivating engineering students to reach maximum potential as future professional engineers. The society’s main events include conferences in which established professional civil engineers from different engineering firms come in as speakers, give presentations and meet students. Sometimes, the speakers take résumés and hear interviews for internship and co-op opportunities. It provides a good opportunity to start networking with various organizations in the field.
In addition to meeting professionals, the society allows one to meet fellow civil engineering students
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The captain for the Steel Bridge team is Dakota McDonald, and the captain for the Concrete Canoe team is Chad Ostrander. As for requirements, ASCE accepts students majoring in Civil Engineering from any undergraduate or graduate level. However, it does require that the students are full-time students in Texas Tech, and there is a due of $5.00 per semester. The meeting times are normally every Thursday at 1700 hours in room 205 of the Civil Engineering Building, and free food is always …show more content…
These include salsa nights, volunteering, robotics competitions, mentorship programs, and some intramurals, including volleyball. Joining the Texas Tech chapter, gives certain benefits from the SHPE national organization. For example, it offers $2 million in scholarships, internship and co-op opportunities, national conferences on leadership and career training, and competitions, among other benefits.
The SHPE offers the opportunity for a member to travel to a conference, that is either at a regional or a national level. Another great advantage is that members often give materials, such as books, from their previous classes to members who will just be entering those classes, providing a huge economic and academic help. Interestingly enough, the society not only has Hispanic members; there are people from different cultures as well, which dramatically expands the networking opportunities.
SHPE’s officers include Marynell Subia, the President, Pablo Villa, the Vice President, Joshua Espinoza, the Treasurer, and Marco Moreno, the Secretary. The meeting times are every other Wednesday at 1900 hours in room 132 of the Mechanical Engineering
LJI308 is a potent and selective inhibitor of RSK. The p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK) comprises a family of serine/threonine kinase which is expressed in various human cancers. RSK is the cytosolic substrate for the ERK (extracellular sianal-regulated kinase), involved in direct regulation of cell survival, proliferation, and cell polarity. Previous studies have demonstrated that RSK pathway is important for the growth and proliferation of cancer stem cells [1,2].
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[6] Gordon Andrews et al, Introduction to Professional Engineering in Canada, 3rd ed., Toronto, Ont.: Pearson Education Canada, 2006.
There are many different opinions about the differences between faith and reason. Traditionally viewed differences between reason and faith are that reason is something that requires empirical, factual evidence while faith relies merely on, well, faith. For something to have reason it must have some kind of factual evidence to make it true, or at least very good sound reasoning to believe that whatever it is, is factual. Faith is far from something that attains empirical evidence, faith usually relies on personal accounts which are usually of mystical content. Many philosophers have different opinions about how the two can coexist; some say under no circumstances at all, while others claim they can justify each other, and some claim faith is reason alone. Some philosophers claim that believing in God is an obvious choice by the claim that just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there like Blaise Pascal. Blasé Pascal and Clifford offer two completely different standpoints on the role of reason and faith.
Like the previous paper I enjoyed writing this one as well. I have been skiing for 14years, so this is something I'm interested in. In the process of writing this paper I heard conflicting views from pro and con helmet sides. My dad was upset by the fact that I wrote about why you shouldn't wear ski helmets, because he wears one when he skis. Personal preference backed up by convincing evidence I found in multiple places helped me prove my position against ski helmets at high speeds.
Farrell, Elizabeth F. “Engineering a Warmer Welcome for Female Students.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 22, 2002. students p 31.
When I grow up I would like to be a construction worker. Construction workers are the men and women that you see working on various construction sites, for example residential construction, highway construction, commercial construction, and more. I chose this career because I enjoy working in the outdoors as well as building structures. It is important to understand the education or training requirements, skills, or talents needed, salary and benefits offered and the duties for a particular career when making this decision.
After reevaluating my proposed problem and research questions, I was able to focus on what type of research design and strategy would be best for my Capstone Project Proposal. For review, my proposed problem is on sleep disturbances associated with cardiac surgery patients. My proposed strategy is that by increasing nursing education on sleep there will be a reduction in sleep disturbances for cardiac surgery patients. Keele (2011) describes and differentiates quantitative and qualitative research. After reading over the material for both quantitative and qualitative research designs several times, I have decided on what research method is more appropriate for my Capstone Project Proposal.
E., Mobley, C., Lord, S. M., Camacho, M. M., & Main, J. (2017, April). Transitioning from military service to engineering education. In Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2017 IEEE (pp. 317-322). IEEE.
Landis, Raymond B. Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career. Los Angeles, CA: Discovery, 2013. Print.
Learning is a continuous process and the day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and lower levels of satisfaction. My ardent desire to acquire knowledge has motivated me to pursue higher studies at graduate level, and to take up a career in research in industry. I have taken this decision after carefully considering my academic background, profound interest in research and strong aptitude for problem solving.
In summary, to conclude this report by recommending that site visit is very useful and essential in college for the students of civil engineering, to make the student realize and understand the major very well and think about different parts and procedures of the construction by knowing the materials and its part in construction. In addition I would like to advice the students to take every opportunity during studies of structural materials is to visit sites during free time to explore more about the details and to understand it perfectly. I would like to mention to the college to keep on giving the students chances to visit more sites during the years of major in that case the encouragement will grow in the minds of students of civil engineering.
As an aspiring structural engineer, I need to obtain a Master of Science in Civil or Structural Engineering before I can begin my job search. As a senior in the University of Washington’s (UW) Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department, I came to understand why UW’s CEE program is one of the most rigorous in the nation with a faculty well-known for their seismic engineering research. With UW as a potential graduate program in mind, I interviewed the aged Dr. Charles Roeder, my current Design of Metal Structures professor, and the ever-in-trouble Travis Thonstad, a PhD student and my Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures teacher assistant (TA).
The civil engineering field is about gathering and interpreting data, being able to give technical presentations to colleagues, team work to design and build a project, projects range from the design and construction of dams, bridges, buildings, roads, and water supply systems. In most cases the works of engineers are admired and sought after. Engineers play an important role in the development and improvement of a society. Yet, like other technical and non-engineering careers the civil engineers also face issues, for example, regarding ethics, high energy building consumption, increased soil and coastal erosion, inadequate water quality, traffic congestion, and some poor infrastructures resilience to disasters. Another example is that unfortunately in the United Kingdom, the civil engineering industry is highly fragmented with 93% of companies having 14 or fewer employees which is not always a great idea, as written by John Miles in Civil Engineering Informatics. There is also a need to implement new professional and educational approaches to new challenges and new implications that are needed for the twenty-first century society. This paper will introduce and explain five different issues that civil engineers are currently facing and elaborate about how these challenges interrelate to each other.
Today's problems are more complex and the needs of current and future societies have created challenges for engineering unparalleled in our history. The use of electronic data collection methods and the application of computers has revolutionized the practice of Civil Engineering. To interpret and satisfy these needs, Civil Engineers currently direct the spending of more than one tenth of Canada's gross national product, more than any other professional group. The Civil Engineer must deal with the human impact of engineering. Social, moral and legal issues concern us to a far greater degree than ever before.