[ENCI-l] CEUS December Newsletter

[Students in Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program]

Hello cement sniffers,

Finals season is officially here, so things are a bit quieter this December, but we still wrapped up the term with some amazing holiday events.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual CEUS holiday activities. This year we hosted a gingerbread house–building competition, a hot chocolate & cookie-decorating social, and a cozy movie + pajama day. All three events were a huge success, and we hope they gave you a fun break from studying!

We also wanted to share that several summer research positions are now available in a variety of exciting topic areas. Please see the detailed list below, along with the appropriate contacts if you’re interested in applying.

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Summer Research Positions Now Open!

A variety of Summer Student Research Positions are now available across the Civil Engineering department. If you’re interested in any of the projects below, please reach out directly to the supervising professor listed beside the position.

Open Positions:

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Household Choice Experiment — Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin at ucalgary.ca). Use LLMs to generate images for household choice experiment.
  *   Patient Choice Model — Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin at ucalgary.ca)
Develop econometric model of patient choice.
  *   Social Innovation in Engineering for Climate-Neutral Cities — Contact: Jason Hawkins (jfhawkin at ucalgary.ca)
Explore social forces influencing transportation and water use.
  *   Hydrometeorological Monitoring Field Assistant — Contact: Tricia Stadnyk (tricia.stadnyk at ucalgary.ca)
Field visits, equipment installation, drone surveys, water sampling.
  *   Integrated Groundwater–Surface Water Interactions — Contact: Tricia Stadnyk (tricia.stadnyk at ucalgary.ca)
Support hydrological and geochemical modeling.
  *   Experimental Testing of Bridge Structural Components — Contact: Mamdouh El-Badry (melbadry at ucalgary.ca)
Structural testing (2 positions).
  *   AI-Driven Smart Urban Drinking Water Demand Forecasting — Contact: Peyman Yousefi (yousefi.p at ucalgary.ca)
Forecasting under climate stress.
  *   AI-Augmented Construction Project Control — Contact: Peyman Yousefi (yousefi.p at ucalgary.ca)
Predicting material demand and cost risk.
  *   Open-Source Flood Mapping for Resilient Communities — Contact: Qi Zhou (qi.zhou1 at ucalgary.ca)
Coastal flood mapping (2 positions).
  *   Digital Twins in Construction — Contact: Farmaz Sadeghpour (farmaz at ucalgary.ca)
Digital twin modeling (3 positions).
  *   Indigenous Perspectives in Civil Engineering — Contact: Farmaz Sadeghpour (farmaz at ucalgary.ca)
Research on Indigenous perspectives.
  *   Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomy — Contact: Katalin Nora Szarka (katalin.szarka at ucalgary.ca)
Summer student green-engineering project.
  *   Gamification for Hazard Identification Competency-1 — Contact: Estacio Pereira (estacio.pereira at ucalgary.ca)
Assess hazard identification (2 positions).
  *   Flood Inundation Mapping and GIS Processing — Contact: Alain Pietroniro (alain.pietroniro at ucalgary.ca)
Floodplain mapping (2 positions).
  *   Treating Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water — Contact: Gopal Achari (gachari at ucalgary.ca)
  *   Understanding Engineering Student Preparedness for Work-Integrated Learning — Contact: Bronwyn Chorlton (bronwyn.chorlton at ucalgary.ca)
Literature review, survey/interview-based data collection.
  *   Mapping Factors Contributing to Structural Resilience to Wildfire — Contact: Bronwyn Chorlton (bronwyn.chorlton at ucalgary.ca)
Literature synthesis + potential GIS analysis.

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me at adam.ebelher at ucalgary.ca<mailto:adam.ebelher at ucalgary.ca>

Best regards,



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Adam Ebelher

VP Communications, Civil Engineering Undergraduate Society

Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary

403-771-8869 | adam.ebelher at ucalgary.ca

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